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SunCast
Nico Johnson takes you into conversations with those at the forefront of Renewable Energy. SunCast gives an inside look into what is happening in renewable energy. From conversations with the biggest Solar Panel manufacturers in the world to the small startups creating the future of renewable energy, such as carbon capture and battery technology breakthroughs. SunCast is dedicated to providing the knowledge, research, tools and expert guidance you need to understand, grow and be ahead of the…
Episodes
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448: Zinc Batteries, Rocket Science, & Reinvention, with Michael Burz of Enzinc
Warning this is a 2-hour life course that you don't want to miss! Queue it up and set aside the time. You will be rewarded Ever meet someone and stand in awe…
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447: How are you doing…Really? With Derick Lila, PV Buzz
Today's Tactical Tuesday features Derick Lila, the founder of PV Buzz (a platform focused on the North American Solar industry.) Recently, he made an…
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446: Undeniable proof that mentors matter, with Miles Braxton of Goldman Sachs RPG
Miles Braxton went to UVA specifically to study in the lab of Mool Gupta, the Father of Photonics. He should have been a prime candidate for the booming solar…
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445: Unleash the Power Within Experience with Alex Williams
Happy Tuesday, Solar Warriors! If you've been keeping up with our podcast, then you'll remember Alex Williams, CEO of Solar Energy Partners, who appeared on…
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444: Local Energy Rules: Empowering Local Communities to Decide Their Energy Future
This week we’re excited to welcome our guest, John Farrell, to Suncast. John Farrell is an author, a podcaster, co-director of the Institute of Self Reliance…
SunCast443: Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me - Solar Edition! (Live @Intersolar’22)
Many will instantly recognize the popular NPR Quiz show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” If you don’t, you really have missed one of the all-time-great NPR…
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442: Hire, train & motivate 1000+ sales people, with Alex Williams, Solar Energy Partners
Alex Williams is a problem-solver. That, and he loves to recruit high-performing sales people. He loves watching people transform into what they think they can…
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441: C&I Energy Storage: Live Intersolar’22 Innovation Stage w/Yotta Energy CEO, Omeed Badkoobeh
Can Energy Storage unlock a “Solar-Plus-Storage-Powered Future” for the largely yet-to-be-disrupted Commercial and Industrial segment of solar? Today’s guest…
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440: Tigo’s Chairman on storage as energy intelligence, Zvi Alon w/special guest Jing Tian
How did Zvi Alon become Chairman and CEO of one of the early MLPE pioneers, Tigo Energy? By believing in the strategy he mapped out and invested in! When the…
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439: 3 Keys to new market expansion (Including USA), w/Sergio Blanco of Partner Engineering
I’ve been getting a LOT of inbound over the last year since President Joe Biden took office as investors and renewable energy developers the world over…
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438: From ski bum to Solar legend, REC Americas President - Cary Hayes
I first met Cary Hayes back when I was working at Trina Solar circa 2012. He was still at REC Solar, and we had an unforgettable dinner (and too many laughs)…
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437: Andrew Birch, Nem3.0, Save our Solar Jobs!, Live @Intersolar N.A.’22
Andrew Birch, affectionately referred to by many as simply “Birchy”, joins Nico in this live interview [rebroadcast] from the Intersolar N. America expo hall…
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436: Greenpenny, banking that funds Clean Energy. Jason MacDuff, President
Jason MacDuff is President of greenpenny, a virtual carbon-neutral bank dedicated to financing a sustainable tomorrow. Money deposited in greenpenny is secure…
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435: American Clean Power, w/CEO Heather Zichal
Some of you will recall, Nico was live-broadcasting from the CleanPower21 tradeshow in Salt Lake City back in December. While he was there, Nico got the chance…
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434: A comprehensive SaaS suite for utility-scale solar? Andrea Barber, CEO RatedPower
You probably assume that the Utility-scale solar market, having deployed hundreds of GW globally, has surely by now figured out the necessary software suite to…
SunCast433: Drones or manned aircraft for site data? Maybe both? Mark Culpepper, GM Solar, Drone Base
Mark Culpepper, who heads up global solar for Drone Base, is on a mission to simplify the process and amplify the importance of solar site data gathering with…
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432: Goal-setting, Regenerative Capitalism & Food Forests, with Jim Gale
If you have yet to set out your goals for 2022, then you’re absolutely in the right place. If you have, then maybe this anecdote will help support your courage…
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431: Legacy, Equity, & Solar for All, w/Geoff Greenfield of Third Sun Solar
Merry Christmas! As a special bonus for these longer days, I decided to NOT break out this 100 minute episode into 2x50min episodes bc I believe you don’t need…
SunCast430: Green Hydrogen (Mini-series) Ep 5 - Decarbonizing the Steel Industry with Joachim Von Sheele Global Director of Commercialization at Linde
In the final episode of Season One of our Green Hydrogen series, we’re looking at how Hydrogen might be useful to aid hard-to-abate industries such as Steel in…
SunCast429: Green Hydrogen (Mini-series) Ep 4 - The Role of New Technologies with Raffi Garbedian, Co-founder of Electric Hydrogen (formerly CTO of First Solar)
If you’ve been around the solar industry for long, you might recognize the name, Raffi Garabedian. If you don’t, however, it’s probably because you haven’t…
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428: System Repowering, Microgrids, and a New DC Optimizer contender, Hanan Fishman of Alencon Systems
In the words of today’s guest, Hanan Fishman, “Planning a DC microgrid is no different than any other technical undertaking. You need to start with defining…
SunCast427: Green Hydrogen (Mini-series) Ep 3 - The Role of the Large Energy Companies in the Hydrogen Economy with Biraj Borkataria
Biraj Borkataria is always looking at the details to determine how they affect the big picture. As an analyst for RBC, ranked #7 globally for his sector, he’s…
SunCastGreen Hydrogen (Mini-series) Ep 2 - The Green Hydrogen Opportunity with Jason Goodhand, DNVs Global Energy Storage leader and Hydrogen Industry Veteran
Two decades ago, Jason Goodhand was working in Hydrogen. But he says it’s different now. “Whether it's renewable energy, or oil and gas, every sector is trying…
SunCast425: The Inevitability of Green Hydrogen with Sheldon Kimber, CEO Intersect Power
It’s time to bet on the future. Climate change is here, disasters are daily, and even financial systems are strained to breaking. In Episode One of our Green…
SunCast424: [Trailer] Green Hydrogen, a Mini-Series
Hydrogen, the most abundant element on earth, has been hailed for decades as a beacon of the coming clean energy revolution. So why has it still not arrived?…
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423: What Solar can learn from the traditional power sector, Mitchell Samuelian, CEO Tonian Renewables
I’ve said it a lot from the pulpit of SunCast, but there really is a LOT that the Renewable energy sector can still learn from the traditional power sector…
SunCast422: The Innovators’ Handbook for Navigating the Clean Energy Transition, with Bill Nussey
Bill Nussey’s book comes out TODAY! Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-Scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the…
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421: Freeing Energy, Bill Nussey's education on the Clean Energy Transition
The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next…
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420: Giving Tuesday - Can $20 Make a difference? It Can, GivePower!
Today is Giving Tuesday, yes, yes it is a real thing, and each year we highlight the GivingTuesday campaign of one Nonprofit that we see doing world-changing…
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419: A mission to give Everybody Solar, with Youness Scally
Today’s Thanksgiving Episode features Youness Scally, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit, Everybody Solar. Over the past ten years…
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418: Every CEO needs this ONE skill! Rain Bennett on the power of Storytelling
FRIDAY BONUS EPISODE. Today’s episode is EXTRAORDINARY and is not limited to energy professionals. It’s about storytelling, and I bring it to you, solar…
SunCast417: Arcadia raised $100M to democratize clean energy access! Kiran Bhatraju, CEO
Few Clean Energy entrepreneurs are as familiar with the bumpy road from coal to clean energy as Kiran Bhatraju. The son of an immigrant doctor, Kiran grew up…
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416: You Don’t Get Hired for Your Expertise, Rain Bennett (Emmy-nominated Producer)
You need to tell compelling stories. Rain Bennett can help. In his recent TED Talk, “You Don’t Get Hired for Your Expertise” Rain breaks down what you DO get…
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415: How do deregulated energy markets work? Jesson Bradshaw, CEO @ Energy Ogre
This is the Full-length interview with Energy Ogre founder and CEO Jesson Bradshaw, who also appeared on the podcast a couple of weeks ago on a Tactical…
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414: WRO & Logistics affecting your Solar pipeline? Supply chain expert Andy Klump of CEA is your guide
For the las six months, the solar industry has been under a shroud of confusion and uncertainty with regard to a handful of policies that are affecting all of…
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413: Deregulation, Solar in Choice Markets, & Motivation Mondays, w/Nathan Jovanelly, IGS Solar
Nathan Jovanelly believes everyone should have the right to purchase clean energy. In today's discussion, we talk about his childhood in a blue collar family…
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412: What is Market-based Rate Authority (MRA)? Jesson Bradshaw of Energy Ogre
In Today's Tactical Tuesday we spend 15 minutes diving into the reality of deregulated markets with of Jesson Bradshaw of Energy Ogre. Most of us in the US do…
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411: Auston Taber, CEO of Solar Support
Auston Taber launched Solar Support after years behind the scenes at companies like REC, SMA, Huawei and GInlong, where he learned how to repair systems and…
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410: The Final Debate: How do we create the 100% Clean Grid of the future?
Today's Tactical Tuesday is our Final Debate of the Great Debate Series for 2021, and features four solar industry experts - 2 who represent Distributed…
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409: Reid Wuntke, President of Energy Toolbase
Starting, failing, transparency, humility, organization, leadership, family, burnout...these are just some of the themes that emerged in today's riveting…
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408: 2021 Top Solar Changemaker: Kate Gold, Solar Landscape
The Solar Power World 2021 Top Solar Changemaker award-winner is Kate Gold, director of community engagement at Solar Landscape. From the Article feature on…
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407: CleanTech Podcaster's Roundtable Q3-'21
Welcome back, Solar Warrior. This is a SunCast Rewind that’s also a Tactical Tuesday, typically a short form conversation with subject matter experts designed…
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406: Solar lending insights from Dividend Finance CEO, Eric White
When Eric White met a group of Louisiana oil guys at an OPEC Summit while studying abroad in Vienna, he scarcely could have imagined that his career would soon…
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405: Solar waste or Second life?? Refurbish & Recycle with Janette Freeman of Fabtek Enterprises
Solar Module Recycling and Refurbishing is a critical (if often overlooked) element of our green, clean energy future. Janette Freeman is passionate about…
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404: How Sunlight Financial became a leading solar lender, with Matt Potere, CEO Sunlight Financial
Residential Solar finance is a hot hot market, and few companies have stormed the proverbial castle and taken a leadership position so decisively as Sunlight…
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403: Friends Don’t Let Friends Use 8760s, with Dr. Jennifer Newman of REsurety
Despite their widespread use in the renewable energy industry, using an 8760 to project financial performance can lead to significant errors in revenue models…
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402: From Astronautics to MicroGrids with Amy Simpkins of muGrid
Today's guest is Amy Simpkins, CEO of Mu Grid. We talk about her life as a clean energy consultant, her history in astronautics and her new podcast, Power…
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401: How a Solar drone program can help you scale, with Scanifly CEO, Jason Steinberg
Welcome, #SolarWarrior, to another Tactical Tuesday, a short-form conversation with subject-matter experts designed to give you practical tools, tips, and…
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400: Celebrating 400!!! w/ Mike Silvestrini, CEO - Energea
Today, Nico shares his 400th conversation with clean energy experts on Suncast. Each episode investigates a small piece of the big puzzle by asking CEO's…
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399: Part 2, Reagan Farr, Silicon Ranch: Ten Yrs & How to Scale a Solar Development Co
This is Part Two of our two-part series with Reagan Farr, CEO of Silicon Ranch, a pioneer of solar development in the Southeastern US. If you missed part 1…
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399: Part 1, Reagan Farr, Silicon Ranch: How to Start a Solar Development Co
This is Part One of a two-part series with Reagan Farr, CEO of Silicon Ranch, a pioneer of solar development in the Southeastern US. We talk about his…
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398: SPI is Cancelled, What to do Now? (with Danielle Danko & Jake Rozmaryn)
Solar Power International was officially cancelled last Friday. 😩 Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are suffering and in the arduous process of…
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397: How to disrupt a $19B market? Erthos' Daniel Flanigan (CMO) & Charles Pimentel (CCO)
What does it look to disrupt an industry? What does it take to make a career of it? And as Jim Collins suggested, WHO do you need to get on the bus? In Today's…
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396: One simple device could SAVE your Residential deal, Whit Fulton, CEO of ConnectDER
Whit Fulton knows a thing or two about solving problems. Today, I interview this introverted inventor & talk about his journey to deliver a brilliantly simple…
SunCast395: Should Net Metering Still Exist? The Great Debate Part 3
Today's Tactical Tuesday is the latest installment of our GREAT SOLAR DEBATE series, featuring two industry experts - Brian Potts, Partner at Perkins Coie and…
SunCast394: Aurora acquired Helioscope! Hot take w/ "The Paul's" on what it means for Customers & Industry
Unless you were under a rock last week, you prob noticed that two Solar industry SAAS titans have joined forces. Aurora Solar, hot off the heels of raising a…
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393: From PV to EV, career evolution & market opportunities with Ram Ambatipudi of EV Connect
Today I talk to Ram Ambatipudi about his long history in energy and how that brought him into the world of Electric Vehicles. When Ram left business school in…
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392: Listen to your Customer: A Lesson from Daryl Parker on Customer Engagement
Today's Tactical Tuesday is a five minute jewel from our full episode with Clean Energy Associates' VP of Sales & Marketing, Darryl Parker. In this episode…
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391: GRID Alternatives' 20 yrs of Impact - Erica Mackie, CEO & Co-founder
In today’s episode, we speak with a true solar pioneer, a well-known entrepreneur, Erica Mackey of GRID Alternatives. We break down her two decades of growth…
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390 - Have a customer-centered business; Darryl Parker, Clean Energy Associates' VP Sales & Mktg
Today’s guest, Darryl Parker, brings more than three decades of extensive high-tech manufacturing and power electronics experience to his role at Clean Energy…