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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…
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SunCast209 - SPI'2019 Podcaster Roundtable: Jon Powers, Barry Cinnamon and Nico discuss using Podcasts as a marketing channel
209: SPI'2019 Podcaster Roundtable: Jon Powers, Barry Cinnamon and Nico discuss using Podcasts as a marketing channel This Flashback Friday is with my good…
SunCast208 - SPI'2019 Community Solar Roundtable
208: SPI'2019 Community Solar Roundtable This is one of the few Community Solar sessions that we've hosted here on SunCast. In fact, one of today's guests is a…
SunCast207 - Black & Veatch 2020 Megatrends [report] w/Brian Sifton, Sustainability Manager
207: 2020 Megatrends Report w/Brian Sifton Brian Sifton is the Sustainability Program Manager for Black & Veatch, one of the most respected engineering…
SunCast206 - Unlocking Financing for Unrated Organizations
206: Unlocking Financing for Unrated Organizations I had the honor of sitting down with the Chief Operating Officer of Energetic Insurance, Jeff McAulay, and…
SunCast205 - Vote Solar, Adam Browning
205: Adam Browning of Vote Solar Today’s Entrepreneur knows all about the power of voting with your feet! Since 2002, Vote Solar has been working to make solar…
SunCast204 - Tim Effio of Fluence on How Storage is Disrupting Caribbean Thermal Generation Models
204: How Storage is Disrupting Caribbean Thermal Generation Models I'd love to hear your thoughts on SunCast! Take our survey here…
SunCast203 - SPI'2019 Marketing Trends 2020 - Marketing Agency Roundtable
203: Marketing Agency Roundtable I'd love to hear your thoughts on SunCast! Take our survey here: https://www.mysuncast.com/survey Flashback Friday is my way…
SunCast202 - Engineering a Startup While in Grad School, Mikhail Gofman of Green Think Energy
202: Mikhail Gofman of Green Think Energy I'd love to hear your thoughts on SunCast! Take our survey here: https://www.mysuncast.com/survey Today’s…
SunCast201 - Giving Tuesday: Energy Access for All with Kristina Skierka, Founder of Power For All
#201: Kristina Skierka, Founder of Power For All Today I’m doing my first ever episode dedicated to Giving Tuesday, a fitting way to kick off Season 5 of…
SunCast200 - Winners! American-Made Solar Prize Round 1 from SPI 2019
#200: SPI, American-Made Solar Prize Winners Episode number 200 of SunCast! I hope you’re having a restful day as many of you here in the US are enjoying a…
SunCast199 - Sam Adeyemo, Aurora Solar Co-Founder & COO
#199: SunCast Live w/Aurora Co-Founder Today’s entrepreneur is Sam Adeyemo, Co-founder and COO of Aurora Solar. I’m sure many of you have heard of Aurora, as…
SunCast198 - ESG is the New Black - with Karin Berardo of Abren
#198: Karin Berardo Tactical Tuesday I got great feedback on episode 183 back in September with my friend and returning guest Karin Berardo where we touched on…
SunCast197 (SPI'19): The Evolution Of SPI W/ Julia Hamm & Abby Hopper
Hey there solar warriors, I know many of you have been waiting for us to release the episodes recorded LIVE at the Podcast Lounge SPI 2019. We're kicking…
SunCast196 - Value-Added Project Finance w/John Chaimanis, Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure
#196: John Chaimanis, Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure Today’s entrepreneur, John Chaimanis, is co-founder and Managing Director of Kendall Sustainable…
SunCast195 - A Better Way to Sell Commercial Solar; Robert Styler, SunCrew
#195: Robert Styler, SunCrew Today’s entrepreneur happens to be one of the best salesmen in our business, or maybe any business. Jigar Shah has said of Robert…
SunCast194 - Is Perovskite Ready for Primetime? Dave Buemi, Energy Materials Corporation
#194: Dave Buemi, Energy Materials Corporation Today’s Entrepreneur has enjoyed a broad 22-year history in the solar PV, clean energy innovation, climate…
SunCast193 - Ed Heacox Has Built #1 Market Share in Inverters... Twice!
#193: Ed Heacox, CPS Energy Today’s entrepreneur has been a power electronics executive for 3 decades. From his early days at GE till today, Ed Heacox has…
SunCast192 - Impact Positive - Sishir Garemella
#192: Sishir Garemella, Sunvest Capital Sishir is the founder of Sunvest Capital, Sunvest brings years of deep solar intelligence combined with expertise in…
SunCast191 - [SPI'19] Clean Energy 10 Yrs after ARRA, panel hosted by Silverline Communications
The clean energy landscape has changed dramatically in the 10 years since Laura Taylor founded Silverline Communications. During that year, newly elected…
SunCast190 - Jake Rozmaryn, Antenna Group VP & Forbes 30 Under 30
#190: Antenna Group VP & Forbes 30 Under 30 Jake Rozmaryn has been a starter, an influencer, a leader, and a true industry advocate for more than a decade…
SunCast189 - Addressing the Global Water Crisis w/Mark Baker of Water Mission
#189: Mark Baker of Water Mission Mark Baker is the Program Director for Disaster Response at Water Mission. Today you’ll hear the story of how Water Mission…
SunCast188 - Angella Rainford, Rekamniar Ventures
#188: Largest Solar Plants in the Caribbean Angella is the founder of Soleco and Rekamniar Frontier Ventures (“Rekamniar”). Rekamniar co-developed one of the…
SunCast187 - SPI/NASEW Daily Roundup, 26th September
187 - SPI/NASEW, 26th September Go to www.podcastlounge.live to learn more and watch all the action as it is happening.
SunCast186 - Karin Berardo, ESG & Impact Investing
#186: ESG & Impact Investing Karin Berardo was one of the first guests on SunCast and had the first 2-part episode, airing way back in Feb 2016 as episodes 10…
SunCast185 - SPI/NASEW Daily Roundup, 25th September
SPI/NASEW, 25th September Go to www.podcastlounge.live to learn more and watch all the action as it is happening.
SunCast184 - SPI/NASEW Daily Roundup, 24th September
SPI/NASEW, 24th September Go to www.podcastlounge.live to learn more and watch all the action as it is happening.
SunCast183 - SPI/NASEW Daily Roundup, 23rd September
NASEW, 23rd September Go to www.podcastlounge.live to learn more and watch all the action as it is happening.
SunCast182 - SPI’19, Know before you go! (NASEW19)
#182: SPI 2019 As Solar Power International, now known as North America Smart Energy Week, nears, we bring you our 2nd annual “Know before you go” episode…
SunCast181 - Jon Powers, CleanCapital, the White House, and fintech innovation
#181: Jon Powers, CleanCapital Jon Powers, is a true warrior, and a veritable solar warrior. When Jon returned from serving the US Army in Iraq, he had a…
SunCast180 - Carbon Free vs 100% RE w/SEPA’s Julia Hamm
#180: SEPA’s Julia Hamm Today we dig into SEPA’s state of the union moving beyond 2019, their 4 pathways framework for achieving a smarter & cleaner grid…
SunCast179 - Drone-enabled solar design software, Scanifly
#179: John Novak, CEO Scanifly John Novak, cut his teeth in the trenches doing design for well-known east-coast solar firms before he stepped out to start…
SunCast178 - #CarbonOffsetChallenge - Etienne Lecompte
#178:Etienne Lecompte Tactical Tuesday Today we chat with Etienne Lecompte, CEO of PowerHub and we learn the 3 practical ways you can reduce your carbon…
SunCast177 - Nicole Steele, GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic
#177: GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic Nicole started as GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic’s Executive Director in 2014, at a time when there was little precedent…
SunCast176 - Women & Diversity in Renewables - Kristen Graf of WRISE
#176: Kristen Graf of WRISE Kristen Graf is the Executive Director of the non-profit Women of Renewable Industries & Sustainable Energy, or WRISE as it’s…
SunCast175 - SPI Announcement - Live Podcast Lounge! Apply Now
#175: Live SPI Podcast Lounge I'm thrilled to announce that we’ll be hosting the first-ever Podcast Lounge live from Solar Power International! Check out…
SunCast174 - Deep Chakraborty, Enact Systems
#174: Founder & CEO, Enact Systems Today’s entrepreneur is Deep Chakraborty, a seasoned solar veteran with experience bringing quality products to market. Some…
SunCast173 - Tapping the Sap: Converting Brownfields into Brightfields with Chad Farrell, CEO, Encore Renewable Energy
#173: Chad Farrell, CEO, Encore Renewable Energy Chad Farrell is an entrepreneur who discovered solar as a way to marry his calling with his craft. He was…
SunCast172- Jim Spano on Financing & Development Innovation
#172: Jim Spano, Radiant REIT & Managing Partner of Spano Partner Holdings Jim Spano has been instrumental in the development of over 300 megawatts of solar…
SunCast171 - Empowering Solar Salespeople, Part 2 - Jonathan Budd, CEO Powur
#171: The Powur Model In the last episode, we got the background and point of inspiration for how Jonathan decided to create Powur, but we ran out of time to…
SunCast170 - Does Powur Really Work? Let’s Hear From CEO Jonathan Budd
#170: Jonathan Budd, Powur’ up residential sales Jonathan explains how he has built Powur as a solar salesforce powerhouse quietly establishing legitimacy and…
SunCast169 - Trading Goats for Solar in Africa. Guled Ahmed, Power Offgrid
#169: Guled Ahmed, Power Offgrid Did hear about that one company in Africa trading goats for solar? Join me today as I engage with Guled Ahmed of Power…
SunCast168 - Capitol Hill Insider Bill Parsons, ACORE’s COO
#168: Bill Parsons, COO of ACORE Legislation is one of those things you need to keep an eye on, so today I thought I’d bring in a Washington insider who’s…
SunCast167 - Smart Home Startup Lumin is Poised for Growth, CEO Alex Bazhinov
#167: Disrupting the Smart Home market and enabling Solar and Energy Storage integration. Alex Bazhinov and his co-founder Kevin built Lumin to give the…
SunCast166 - A New Finance Mechanism for Solar?
#166: Jason Edens, Founder of the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance Jason Edens has been developing solar and renewable financing mechanisms for nearly 2…
SunCast165 - Julia Hamm, SEPA’s Evolution & Fingerprint
#165: Smart Electric Power Alliance Julia Hamm has been leading SEPA for more than 15 yrs, and helped the Utility Photovoltaic Group in its transition to being…
SunCast164 - Building a renewable energy development platform. Mark Goodwin, Apex Clean Energy
#164: Apex Clean Energy Mark Goodwin is the CEO of Apex Clean Energy. We go deep into the process and definitions underlying building a renewable energy…
SunCast163 - Bridging Silicon Valley & Latam, YPF Ventures’ Tomas Ocampo
#163: Managing Director for YPF Ventures Today’s Entrepreneur is helping bridge the technology and financing gap between Silicon Valley and Latin America…
SunCast162 - Drift, an Energy marketplace for consumers, w/co-founder Greg Robinson
#162: Drift connects energy providers with buyers Greg Robinson and his team envision and have built a marketplace where the biggest companies in the world and…
SunCast161 - Anne Hoskins, SunRun Chief Policy Officer
#161: What exactly does a Chief Policy Officer do? Tune In as I sit down with Anne Hoskins live at Solar Power Puerto Rico to ask the question “what exactly…
SunCast160 - TT Sunrun Dir. of Policy & Storage Strategy, Chris Rauscher
#160: Sunrun’s strategy for new markets and innovative storage initiatives. Chris Rauscher is one of the folks responsible for Sunrun’s strategy regarding new…
SunCast159 - Solar Pioneer Gary Gerber, 40 yrs of Sun Light & Power
#159: Founded Sun Light & Power in 1976 Today’s entrepreneur has been building an iconic solar business since before many of you were even born! Gary Gerber…
SunCast158 - Know before you go, MIRECweek Mexico City
#158: Jonathan Pinzon, Carlos Abad & Jamie Dowswell If you’re familiar at all with the Mexico market, then you’ll have heard of the Mexico International…
SunCast157 - Devin Welch, Sun Tribe Solar
#157: Virginia’s fastest-growing solar company Devin Welch is Chief Strategy & Development officer at Sun Tribe Solar a relatively young but extremely…
SunCast156 - Impact Positive - Sandra Kwak, Cleantech Woman of the Year
#156: EarthX Cleantech Woman of the Year Sandra Kwak is a serial entrepreneur and one really smart and savvy leader. Sandra founded 10 Power to provide light…
SunCast155 - Mexico Hedge Fund Artha Capital Betting Big on Solar with Prana
#155: Prana Power VP Jose Jove discusses the market dynamics Jose Jove is VP of Distributed Energy at Prana Power, one of the fastest growing and most…
SunCast154 - Jeff Wolfe, Solar Pioneer to E-Mobility Executive
#154: Founded & sold groSolar, now focused on EV charging king Tritium. When I first started my solar company in 2006, one of the distributors I relied on was…
SunCast153 - New Energy Nexus, Jon Bonanno
Opportunity Zones for clean energy. Opportunity Zones are all the buzz in investment circles, but few in the solar industry understand them or how they can be…
SunCast152 - PreCharge is Coming, Puerto Rico is on the Rise
Mastermind with local industry insiders in a unique 1-day intensive. Today is a mini-sode with James Ellsmoor, specifically focused on an upcoming opportunity…
SunCast151 - Puerto Rico's Green New Deal with PJ Wilson
#151: 100% renewables in Puerto Rico by 2050. PJ Wilson is the Founder and President of the Solar + Energy Storage Association of Puerto Rico (SESA). SESA…
SunCast150 - What Tetris Did For Energy Storage, with Henk Rogers
#150: Tetris Inc. & Blue Planet Energy Founder, Henk Rogers, one of the world’s leading advocates and activists for weaning humankind from fossil fuels. Henk's…