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	Podcast:		SunCast
	Episode:		875: Inside Fluence’s Bold Battery Bet: Domestic Content, AI, and Grid Resilience
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:31:02
	Publish Date:		2025-11-20 13:30:00
	Description:		In 2008, Fluence installed one of the first lithium-ion battery systems ever connected to the U.S. grid. Back then, the idea of a domestic battery supply chain felt distant—almost theoretical. Today, it’s real. John Zahurancik, now President of Fluence Americas, has spent nearly two decades pushing the storage industry from “interesting pilot projects” to critical grid infrastructure. The last time he was on SunCast, he said domestic content would happen. This year, Fluence started shipping it. In this episode, John breaks down how storage has quietly become the backbone of the power system—independent of renewables—and why the next wave of deployments will be bigger, faster, and more strategically important than anything we’ve seen. We dig into:
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