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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…
Episodes
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567: Jordan Energy: Creating More Food for Less with Solar
Bill Jordan capitalized on decades of experience in renewable energy, building materials and sustainable agriculture markets to create the Troy, New York-based…
SunCast566: Expert Advice For A Winning 2023 Solar Strategy, with EDPR and Woodmac
We might be 1 month into the year, but it’s not too late to tighten up your pla. Today’s Tactical Tuesday brings you Two industry experts — Gustavo Gomes…
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565: How to make solar investments inFinite, with Kevin Conroy, CEO Finite
Kevin Conroy wants to make investing in sustainable assets as simple as buying stock in Robinhood. In 2019, he established Finite to give individuals access to…
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564: Can Steel Make Solar Panels Even Better - And Help 'Save The World'? with Gregg Patterson of Origami Solar
Gregg Patterson is a former Hewlett Packard executive who ran multiple global businesses before jumping into renewables in 2006 — partly, he says, to help…
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563: The Most Loved Soundbites From Suncast's Amazing 2022 Podcasts
Today we look back at some of the best moments from our 2022 podcasts. It was a year full of learning and notable contributions from rocket scientists…
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562: Would-Be Astronaut Now Bets on the Sun, with Marquis Matthews of Energy Support Services
Marquis Matthews understands the challenges of dramatic career transitions. He shares his experiences in today's excellent podcast. In 2014, the U.S. Navy…
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561: 2022 Special Year-end Cleantech Podcaster's Roundtable Roundup
Each quarter, Tigercomm & SunCast Media convene the brightest stars in cleantech podcasting to discuss what they have been observing vis-a-vis their podcast…
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560: How Long Duration Energy Storage Ensures a Better Electric Grid, with Hugh McDermott, ESS Inc.
Hugh McDermott is the senior vice president for business development and sales for ESS Inc., a provider of long-duration energy storage (LDES) solutions for…
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559: The Best Roof Has Skylights and Solar Panels with Grant Grable of Sunoptics
What percentage increase in productivity would you say would need to be achieved by all the individuals in a building in order to pay for ALL The energy used…
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558: Podcast Guesting Is Still The Best Kept Marketing Secret, with Josh Porter and Nico Johnson
Josh Porter and Nico Johnson, both veterans of the solar industry and long-time podcasters, discuss the evolution of the medium and its popularity. They both…
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557: Why Mohammed Abdalla's 'Good Faith Energy' Promises a Greener Future
Mohammed Abdalla, the founder and CEO of Good Faith Energy, is no stranger to adversity. His father died when he was nine, leaving his mother to rear five…
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556: Is 'Renewable' Propane Really Clean Energy or Just Hype?
I’m no fan of the hype train and misdirection foisted upon us by much of the traditional fossil fuel industry. So, when I met Tucker Perkins, president and CEO…
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555: Marketing Experts on How to Raise Brand Awareness, Lauren Glickman, Tor Valenza and Nico talk details
It’s a holiday weekend, so I’ll keep the reading short for you. Every so often, I try to convene my close friends who are working in the trenches doing the…
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554: Solar Clears the Way for Clean Energy — for Everyone, Everywhere, with Adrienne Pierce, CEO New Sun Road
Many folks have heard the term microgrid in the energy transition context, and today's podcast will give you critical insights about their use and potential…
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553: What Is Regenerative Energy? Is Silicon Ranch Onto Something? Ask Michael Baute, VP Carbon Removal at Silicon Ranch
Today's Tactical Tuesday gives you an overview of regenerative energy — a transformative new standard of excellence for solar power plant design, construction…
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552: What's Missing As We Build The Clean Energy Revolution?
Fellow solar warrior and podcaster, Nate Jovanelly, took over the PowerUp Media Zone studio at RE+ to lead the Industry Pulse segment, with support from…
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551: Squeezing More Money From Clean, Green Energy. Soluna Computing CEO John Belizaire’s promise to Sell.Every.Megawatt and End Curtailment Forever.
Today's conversation is a wide-ranging look at how to provide reliable power using renewables while mitigating intermittency and helping Independent Power…
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550: B2B Marketing That Works Better Than Your Expectations
Everyone talks about B2B marketing these days, often without a clear understanding of its meaning or importance. So today, we shine a light on…
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549: These Smart Companies Think Smart Homes Are Going Mainstream (Google, Sunrun & SPAN)
Homeowners are on a remarkable journey toward more convenient living through connected technology. Adopting things like smart thermostats, lighting, network…
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548: Success Secrets: Real Estate, Money And Taming The Solar Coaster
Jerry Coleman is a serial entrepreneur with a passion (and quite a track record) for developing and growing companies on a national scale. Over the past 20…
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547: How To Master The Solar Coaster: Utility-scale Insights From 2 Expert Analysts, Special guests from Wood Mackenzie & SEIA
Sylvia Leyva Martinez, a senior analyst in Wood Mackenzie's Power and Renewables team, and Shawn Rumery, senior research Director at the Solar Energy…
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546: Can THIS Put More Money In Solar Developers' Pockets? Jim Spano|Sol-REIT, and guest host, Tim Montague!
Solar industry leader and returning guest, Jim Spano, helped develop the solar market in the mid-Atlantic region — and now he's bringing a new innovative…
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545: Shipping Is Dirty And Antiquated: This Guy Has A Solution. Matt Heider, CEO Nautilus Labs
Matt Heider is CEO of Nautilus Labs, which is using artificial intelligence (AI) to create more efficient ocean commerce. While shipping is an adjacent…
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544: What Every Community Solar Developer Needs to Know About the IRA, Presented by Perch Energy
Welcome to another Tactical Tuesday on SunCast, where we bring you subject-matter expertise, deep insights, and content from our many live broadcasts and…
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543: Sunnova CEO John Berger, On Enron, Innovation And The Future Of Solar
John Berger is a renewable energy veteran deep in the heart of “Energy” country, as we discussed back in Episode 465. And he’s built more than one successful…
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542: How to double solar customer value through follow-on sales, an all-star panel shares their secrets!
Today's special edition podcast offers practical, tactical advice on getting the most from your customer relationships. Through an all-star panel discussion…
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541: Why Falling in Love With Failure Matters So Much, with Piper Wilder, 60Hertz Energy
Piper Foster Wilder is the co-founder and CEO of 60Hertz Energy, the first maintenance software purpose-built for distributed energy resources (DER). DERs are…
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540: The IRA Solves One Problem, But Creates Another, with Andy Redinger of KeyBanc Capital Markets
In today's Tactical Tuesday, we talk with Andy Redinger, head of the Utilities, Power & Renewable Energy Group at KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM). KBCM is…
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539: Democratizing Energy for Everyone, One Smart Solar Battery at Time, with Electriq’s Aric Saunders
Hawaii native Aric Saunders is a clean energy champion well versed in reaching low to moderate-income communities, creating innovative products, and…
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538: How Sungrow Keeps Its Global Edge in Inverters
Perhaps you’ve noticed, but over the past year, I've built a strong friendship with the folks at Sungrow, the leading global inverter solution supplier for…
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537: 'People Are The Heart Of Renewable Energy Project Development', With Industry Veteran CEO Kimberlee Centera, TerraPro
Kimberlee Centera is one of the few female CEOs of a privately held, privately funded utility-scale renewable energy consulting practice. As the founder and…
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536: 10 Millionth Solar Design, $200 Million Series D, How Aurora Empowers the Solar Industry With Mission-Critical Digital Tools, with Co-founders Chris Hopper & Sam Adeyemo
Stanford Business School grads Chris Hopper and Sam Adeyemo founded Aurora Solar in 2012 with a mission to reduce solar design costs. They created software…
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535: Turning Entire Neighborhoods Into Better Power Plants, w/Geoff Ferrell of sonnen
Geoff Ferrell is vice president of virtual power plants (VPP) and commercial and industrial (C&I) project business at sonnen, a German-based global energy…
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534: How Better Battery-Based Energy Storage Will Save Power Grids, w/ Fluence’s Head of Growth, Kiran Kumaraswamy
Kiran Kumaraswamy is a high-caliber energy storage executive focused on the commercialization of technology — specifically, architecting the techno-economic…
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533: What You Need To Know About Mainspring Energy's Low-Emission, Fuel Flexible Generator, with CEO, Shannon Miller
Shannon Miller is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Mainspring Energy — a Menlo Park, California company that sees itself as part of the…
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532: AES’s innovation culture, 24/7 carbon free energy, Agrivoltiacs and more with Woody Rubin, Chief Development Officer
The AES Corporation has dominated almost every category it's ever embraced, and clean energy is no exception. In today's Tactical Tuesday, you'll learn how the…
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531: 8 Amazing Cleantech Podcasters Offer Insights on Industry Trends (Quarterly Podcasters Roundtable)
Six leading clean energy advocates join me and my friend Mike Casey on Episode 6 of our quarterly Cleantech Podcaster’s Roundtable. The rich, one-hour…
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530: Today Is The Most Important Thing — Not Tomorrow; Nobel Chang on Building with Purpose
I like to believe that SunCast opens the door for both you and our guests to be vulnerable with the stories that drive us forward. Today’s episode is one of…
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529: How Clean Power Research Is Driving Energy Transformation
Jeff Ressler explained how he learned to leverage data and software to improve customers' lives in SunCast Episode 221. He returns for today's Tactical Tuesday…
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528: EDPR’s Sandhya Ganapathy on becoming #RebelsForChange
It's no surprise that Sandhya Ganapathy describes herself as a passionate proponent of clean energy. Sandhya is the CEO of EDP Renewables North America (EDPR…
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527: Rnd 5 American Made Challenge Winners Announced! Live from RE+ Media Zone
The American-Made program is your fast track to the clean energy revolution. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, it incentivizes innovation through…
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526: SMA on the Future of Home, Nhan Pimentel & Jan Van Laethem, Live from RE+ PowerUp Media Zone
SMA has been a cornerstone of renewables for nearly four decades. While their counterparts, like Tesla, didn’t have solar divisions until much more recently…
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525: Andrew Chester & the rest of the Greenskies story, Plus How to Grow Companies, Negotiate Strategically & Raise Millions
Many of you have heard one of my close friends & repeat podcast guest, Mike Silvestrini, on how he “and his team” grew Greenskies to be the largest C&I Player…
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524: How solar got below $20/mwh and why we’re moving too slow! w/Dr. Gregory Nemet
Today’s guest is a veritable expert on solar and climate change, and has recently served as a lead author for the IPCC’s 6th assessment report. He made his…
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523: RE+ Daily Roundup LIVE Day 3
Start each day with the Daily Roundup as we bring you the trends and conversations unfolding in Anaheim at the RE+ 2022 conference formerly known as SPI. If…
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522: RE+ Daily Roundup, Day 2
We are in Anaheim! Start each day with the Daily Roundup as we bring you the trends and conversations unfolding in Anaheim at the RE+ 2022 conference formerly…
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521: RE+ Daily Roundup, Day 1
We are in Anaheim! Start each day with the Daily Roundup as we bring you the trends and conversations unfolding in Anaheim at the RE+ 2022 conference formerly…
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520: Live Show Preview RE+ 2022
We are in Anaheim! Start each day with the Daily Roundup as we bring you the trends and conversations unfolding in Anaheim at the RE+ 2022 conference formerly…
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519: Mark Culpepper On SunEdison, Drones & The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Today's entrepreneur is no stranger to the solar startup world. He was part of the early merger and acquisition activity that ultimately became the juggernaut…
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518: 2022 RE+ Conference: Know before you go! SIX industry veterans’ Advice & Tips!
I fondly remember circa 2018 (when I first debuted the Know before you go episode) I was barely at Episode 112, and I interviewed Andy Klump for the first time…
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517: Build it! — profit will come for renewable energy investors, with Quinbrook co-founder, David Scaysbrook
Australian legend David Scaysbrook has nearly 30 years of experience in energy and renewable infrastructure. He and his partner, Rory Quinlan, co-founded…
SunCast516: How To Educate Solar Buyers on Ground Screws
Solar projects are growing exponentially — and while that's positive by almost any metric, it comes with complications. Take site selection for instance. We're…
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515: Advice From A Serial Solar Entrepreneur: Be Passionate, Make A Difference
Spencer Oberan — aka "a solar guy" — and Pat Bennett — "a tech guy" — discovered cumbersome and disjointed processes were slowing the growth of solar…
SunCast514: Trust Is the Foundation of Great Experiences, with Mark Liffmann & Brad Davis of Omnidian (Beyond O&M Series, 6 of 6)
Omnidian co-founders Mark Liffmann and Brad Davis share the stage in this final episode of our six-part Beyond O&M: The Future of Solar series. Mark and Brad…
SunCast513: How the Right Service Partner Supercharges Solar Business Growth (Beyond O&M Series, 5 of 6)
In the fifth episode of our six-part Beyond O&M: The Future of Solar series, we examine the scalability of service teams from the perspective of two women well…
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512: AI Pushes Battery Technology To New Heights, with Everett Brewer of Storz Power
Everett Brewer is CEO of storage company Storz Power and COO of the solar project matching platform WattHub. He’s a serial entrepreneur who caught my attention…
SunCast511: Want to Grow Your Solar Business? Offer Excellent Post-Installation Services. (Beyond O&M Series, 4 of 6) with Trevor Sumner, Sun Badger
Since 2018, Milwaukee-based Sun Badger Solar has evolved into a full-service solar installer offering what customers describe as a "perfect blend of…
SunCast510: Creating Remarkable Customer Experience in the Solar Industry, with Kevin Schulte of Greenspark (Beyond O&M Series, 3 of 6)
In this third episode of our Beyond O&M: The Future of Solar series, Kevin Schulte of Greenspark Energy shares his insights about keeping the customer first…
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509: Why You Should Care About Distributed Energy Resources (DERs); Mathew Sachs of CPower
Today we explore energy management and the customer-focused opportunities it creates to monitor, control and conserve energy. We'll examine the topic through…
SunCast508: DSD Renewables Makes Lower Energy Costs Accessible To C&I Customers (Beyond O&M Series, 2 of 6)
Distributed Solar Development (DSD) has grown from a stand-alone offshoot of a multinational conglomerate to a powerhouse in its own right. In the second…