From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast.

It's Wednesday, August 10th.

And now for our climate story of the week.

It's advice for how to get more solar energy into your life.

On Sunday, as most of you heard, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which among other things includes a $369 billion

tag for energy and climate initiatives. Some of this money is intended to make solar panels

more affordable for more Americans.

Now, the act must still pass a vote in the House, but it looks likely, and if it does,

Americans will be further incentivized to begin incorporating solar energy into our lives

in more ways. There are already some incentives at the state and local level in different places,

but the process of outfitting our homes for solar energy can seem daunting. So how do we get

started? What happens when it's cloudy? And how exactly do we take advantage of these new

possible federal incentives? Here to discuss and to give you advice is Noah Ginsberg,

co-director of programs at Solar One, which is a green energy education center in New York City.

Noah, thanks for joining us and welcome to WNYC.

Pleasure to be here. Thanks, Brian.

Can you start with the basic of the cost of switching to solar energy if your home, let's say, a private house for the moment, has a traditional heating source?

Sure, absolutely, Brian.

So the cost of installing solar today is more affordable than it's ever been.

The cost have come down significantly over the last decade as the technologies improved, as

the companies doing this work have gotten more savvy and scaled up.

To put solar onto a typical home in the United States today, typically is going to cost

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