292 - The QB Sneak: The Journey from Pro Football to Renewable Energy, with Eric Peterman of GRNE Solar

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

It’s Thursday and I’m honored that you’re joining me for another amazing look into the life and career of a solar founder and CEO. What do the Chicago Bears, United Airlines, and the solar industry have in common? Well, the particularly quick mind, feet, and contributions of today’s guest. Eric Peterman, the CEO of GRNE Solar has such a transformative and interesting story.

Eric and I knew each other preparing for a Midwest Solar Expo panel that you’ve probably already heard. If you haven’t, I invite you to go back and listen to that one about O&M.

Eric impressed me and I had to get to know more about his story, and is such a classic and interesting grassroots story about grid, determination, overcoming odds, and sticking to it.

If you’ve been following along, you should check our SunCast Career Summit. Find it at www.suncastcareersummit.com; for a limited time, you can still access to our Evergreen Pass and enjoy all the content into perpetuity.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Eric on LinkedIn

Listen to the Watts Up Podcast here.

Check out the work of GRNE Solar on their website and Twitter

291 - Cybersecurity in the era of distributed energy, with Tom Tansy of SunSpec

Welcome back, Solar Warrior.

This is Two For Tuesday! Whether that's a Tactical Tuesday or just content from our many live events like SPI Podcast Lounge or the SunCast Clean Energy Summit, this is going to be a short form conversation typically with subject matter experts designed to give you the practical tools tips, and advice for building your solar business or career, and grow with us here on SunCast as I know you will.

If you listened to our previous episode with Tom Tansy, then you are aware that we left off with unfinished conversations around cybersecurity, which itself is a very hot topic. Today we are digging deeper into some of the implications of the “internet of energy” concept that we are creating, and that the next decade is absolutely certain to cement and expand upon exponentially for our industry.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn

Check out the work of SunSpec Alliance on Twitter and their website

290 - How SunSpec is advancing rapid shutdown for Solar, with Tom Tansy of SunSpec

Welcome back, Solar Warrior.

This is Two For Tuesday! Whether that's a Tactical Tuesday or just content from our many live events like SPI Podcast Lounge or the SunCast Clean Energy Summit, this is going to be a short form conversation typically with subject matter experts designed to give you the practical tools tips, and advice for building your solar business or career, and grow with us here on SunCast as I know you will.

We have a returning SunCast guest: Tom Tansy. Having first appeared in episode 111, his entrepreneurial story is remarkable (you can listen to episode 111 clicking here).

Tom unfolded how he broke into clean energy, and how he parlayed one opportunity after the other, translating into a successful entrepreneurial career. He has found a home for himself as one of the arbiters of how regulatory policy in solar and internet energy makes its way to us: the practitioners.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn

Check out the work of SunSpec Alliance on Twitter and their website

289 - How to be a thought leader in Energy, with Peter Kelly-Detwiler

Hello again, Solar Warrior!

Welcome to another SunCast episode with a clean energy thought leader you should definitely know better. Every now and then I have the opportunity to host guests who have as equal or greater a platform as we do from a thought leadership and content creation perspective. Today, Peter Kelly-Detwiler from NorthBridge Energy Partners, LLC is joining us on the show.

He has become well known for his advocacy and education around helping others understand not only how the clean energy industry works, but where it's going. He's a communicator focused on the rapid pace of transformation to a sustainable economy. You may have read some of his more than 350 articles on Forbes.com, or surely you have enjoyed his informative and educational (and often very witty and fun to watch) videos on LinkedIn or YouTube. Today, we're going to dive into the mind of a fellow creator.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Check out Peter’s top 22 newsletters you should be reading.

Connect with Peter on LinkedIn and Twitter

Check out the amazing work of NorthBridge Energy Partners, LLC on their website.

Read: In Australia With Solar Plus Storage, You Can Now Get All Your Electricity For One Low Fixed Monthly Price

Peter’s articles on Forbes

288 - Adapting your marketing strategy during COVID-19

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

Do you know if your marketing strategy is working?

The coronavirus (COVID-19) has disrupted the way in which we work and engage as a society. Cities, states, and countries are shutting down, slowing the economy. During times of crisis, it’s important to adapt your marketing strategies to ensure your business continues to bring in revenue and thrives post pandemic.

Join us for a candid conversation with Katie Ullmann, Senior Director at Antenna Group, Lennie Moreno, Founder & CEO of Sofdesk, and Mike Hilverda, Director of Customer Success at SalesRabbit, as we discuss best practices for:

• Generating revenue when you can’t meet face to face.

• Engaging online with potential new customers.

• Staying relevant and in touch with current customers.

• Strengthening your brand during a crisis.

• Employing technologies and processes to track leads with your team in a remote environment.

Today’s episode is a recap of one of our Live webinars in partnership with Solar Energy Trade Shows, back in April.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Katie on LinkedIn

Connect with Lennie on LinkedIn

Connect with Mike on LinkedIn

Want to watch the replay of this webinar? Click here

287 - Clean Wave: Careers in the Green Recovery, with Eric Pasi

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

Today’s entrepreneur is a longtime internet friend and member of the SunCast Tribe, Eric Pasi. Better known for his role as Chief Development Officer at Impact Power Solutions, one of the well-known EPC and Energy Development companies in the MN and broader Midwest markets.

He was instrumental in the Community Solar Gardens initiative at the company and foresaw the community solar boom in the region. Since becoming Chief Development Officer in 2016, he’s helped IPS grow revenues by more than tenfold. He is also author of the upcoming book: Clean Wave, A Guide to Success in the Green Recovery, which guides readers through the past, present, and future of cleantech while offering actionable solutions for jobseekers.

Speaking of job seekers, Eric is a featured speaker at our forthcoming SunCast Career Summit in just 2 weeks time! Read more here: events.mysuncast.com

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Pre-order your copy of Eric’s book: Clean Wave, A Guide to Success in the Green Recovery. It will release on October 18th.

Connect with Eric on LinkedIn and his website

Connect with Impact Power Solutions on LinkedIn and their website

Books mentioned:

Your Oxygen Mask First: 17 Habits to Help High Achievers Survive & Thrive in Leadership and Life

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

The Success Principles - Jack Canfield

Creating Climate Wealth - Jigar Shah

Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change - Marc Benioff

Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

286 - How big is the opportunity to gain diversity hires from the fossil industry?

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

After big oil & gas companies like Chevron laid off up to 15% of their staff amid Coronavirus context, the downsizing of the fossil fuel industry has become obvious, and it opened a window for many qualified professionals to transition into the clean energy space, but how do we get there?

Join me live with Catherine McLean and Reneé Bourgeois as we cover some of the best techniques and approaches you can take to transfer your skills into the clean energy sector by identifying your right "role".

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Catherine on LinkedIn

Connect with Reneé on LinkedIn

Check out the work of Dylan Green on their website.

Click here to watch the replay of this webinar.

285 - Andrew Birch, Co-Founder of OpenSolar on Digitizing 20 years of solar expertise

Happy Thursday, Solar Warrior!

How did one of the solar industry’s true pioneers take everything he’s learned about solar in the last 20 years and make it Free and open-sourced to the world?

Andrew Birch, Co-Founder of the first company to deliver online solar designs, tells us what his research suggests is the answer to scaling solar by 30% per year through 2050 to address climate change.

• The 1st barrier - permitting.

• The 2nd barrier - need to add 10M people to the industry in the next 10 years. 

The question is - How could you possibly scale? The solution is a complete end-to-end software solution that wraps CRM, proposals, and financing together, but it’s not just software.

Andrew is bringing in service providers to exhibit products, and essentially pulls everything into a single place. He makes that bundle white labeled to installers, as well as accessible and online and completely free.

That’s Open Solar, but there’s so much to Birchy’s story.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn

Check out the work of OpenSolar on LinkedIn and their website

Read:

Ten Lessons I learned from Peter Drucker, by Jim Collins

OpenSolar’s Solar Touch 3D

Books mentioned

Contagious, growing a start up - Jonah Berger

What I learned in the rainforest - Kiuchi & Shireman

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done - Peter F. Drucker

284 - How COVID-19 has impacted Solar Finance and Development

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

Coronavirus has drastically changed the global economy with impacts across every industry, including clean energy and solar development. We may have never seen an economic or public health crisis at this scale, but policy, solar and finance experts have reason to believe that renewable energy can weather this storm and continue to grow. Moreover, the industry can help create jobs and meet public policy goals once we return to a new normal.

How can we navigate current challenges, and what can we expect from the future of solar financing and development? To answer those questions, we hosted a marvelous panel with New York State Senator, Kevin Parker, Member and Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications; PPL Director – Solar Development, Brian Fratus; Entersolar Business Development Director, Suparna Kadam; ROTH Capital Managing Director, Philip Shen, and RadiantREIT co-founder, Jim Spano.

Today’s episode is a recap of one of our Live webinars back in May.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with NY State Senator Kevin Parker on LinkedIn

Connect with Brian Fratus on LinkedIn

Connect with Suparna Kadam on LinkedIn

Connect with Philip Shen on LinkedIn

Connect with Jim Spano on LinkedIn

Click here to watch the replay of this webinar!

283 - Solar Project Finance & Acquisitions in the Post-COVID era

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

COVID-19 has touched every corner of our economy, and guess what? The solar project finance and acquisition space is not the exception. Jesse Grossman, CEO of Soltage, joined us here on SunCast to provide his insights on this concerning area.

Jesse has directed over $600M into solar asset investment through Soltage, which currently owns and manages a solar portfolio of over 300 MWs across 14 states.

The main points of our conversation were how the solar industry has changed since the start of the 2020 pandemic, what small and medium-size solar developers can do to best position their assets for sale in the post-COVID economy, and Jesse’s takeaways from the 2007-2009 recession that can help solar developers today.

Today’s episode is a recap of one of our Live webinars back in June.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Jesse on LinkedIn

Check out the work of Soltage on their website

Click here to watch the replay of this webinar!

282 - Enel X Head of E-Mobility on the future of electric charging

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

Are you interested in the way the EV infrastructure of our industry is growing and expanding? Are you eager to know how some of the key largest companies in the world are thinking about it?

We’ve been extending into e-mobility and energy storage as you might have noticed in our recent episodes. Both elements serve the collective consciousness of how low-carbon future for the grid can be achieved, as well as mas penetration of renewables as a whole. In this episode, we go down an interesting pathway and cover how electrification of the automobile industry is driving the adoption of technology, hardware, software, and pulling the renewable energy industry forward in many ways.

Today’s entrepreneur is Giovanni Bertolino, Head of E-Mobility for U.S. and Canada at Enel X. We are going to tease out what’s happening in the market from their mobility-business representative. He’s focused on growing the Residential and Commercial smart charging business, and he’s been serving Enel X and others in the utility sector for a long time.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Giovanni on LinkedIn

Learn more about the work of Enel X on their website

READ:

JuiceBox: Charge your EV faster, smarter, cleaner

Federal and State Electric Car Tax Credits, Incentives & Rebates

Electric Vehicle Rebates and Incentives: A Comprehensive Guide

JuiceNet platform overview

Why Electric Vehicle-Grid Integration Matters Today

Electric Vehicle Maintenance Tips for COVID-19 Shelter in Place

Renewables can lead economic kick-start after coronavirus

Books mentioned

The Florios of Sicily - Stefania Auci

280 - How is Energy Storage driving innovation in renewables? [SunCast Clean Energy Summit]

Hey there, Solar Warrior!

From residential to large-scale utility projects, energy storage (predominantly in the form of batteries) is leap-frogging other applications for finally providing firm and transactive power to the grid from renewables.

How are developers using storage as a force-multiplier and where can we expect to see further business model innovation? We had the pleasure to break this question down with Jacqueline DeRosa, Vice President Battery Energy Storage Systems of Ameresco, Omeed Badkoobeh, Co-Founder & CEO of Yotta Energy, Marek Kubik, Market Director of Fluence in the UK, and Zach Ward, Head of North America Division of Sungrow USA Corporation.

This was the final session of Day 2 of our SunCast Clean Energy Summit back in April 2020. Check out this and more sessions over at www.suncastsummit.com

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Jacqueline on LinkedIn

Connect with Omeed on LinkedIn

Connect with Marek on LinkedIn

Connect with Zach on LinkedIn

281 - State of the Union of Clean Energy, with James Ellis [SunCast Clean Energy Summit]

Hey there, Solar Warrior!

Today’s episode is one of the keynotes of our SunCast Clean Energy Summit: the State of the Union of Clean Energy in the LATAM region. Learn about this market’s ecosystem, players, and dynamics from BloombergNEF's Head of Research in LATAM, James Ellis. He is based in São Paulo, and he oversees an analyst team focused on research material into the clean energy sector across the LATAM region. This was a great session to those who needed (and need) to make critical decisions around how to grow their companies, how the market moves, and how to stay ahead of it.

This was one of the sessions of Day 3 of our SunCast Clean Energy Summit back in May 2020. Check out this and more sessions over at www.suncastsummit.com

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with James on LinkedIn

Check out the work of BloombergNEF in their website

279 - How to value energy storage as an investment? with Paul Dailey, Outback Power

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

Did you ever wonder how ideas like SunRun’s Brightbox Storage Program got their start?

Today’s Intrapreneur and solar OG, Paul Dailey, has had a hand in that bright idea and more in his 2+ decade career on the solarcoaster. We dig into his journey to Director of Product Strategy at Outback, the twists and turns along the way, and the carefully curated and practical steps he took to craft his role in this booming market. Committed listeners will recall that we had Paul on last week for a Tactical Tuesday on Storage Trends, so if you missed that one, I hope you’ll bookmark it for later as well.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 275 additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And sign up to receive a notification when the next episodes have dropped!

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy and Adani Solar U.S. for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Paul on LinkedIn

Check out the work of OutBack Power on Twitter and their website

Articles by Paul:

10 Predictions for the Solar and Storage Market in the 2020s

Three signs that battery energy storage is mainstream today

Remember that the transcript of this episode is available HERE

Books mentioned:

Who - The A Method for Hiring - Geoff Smart and Randy Street

The E-Myth - Michael E. Gerber

278 - Perfecting Operations and Management, live from Midwest Solar Expo 2020

Welcome back to another Tactical Tuesday, Solar Warrior.

What you’re about to hear was recorded LIVE during the pandemic, but also during the first-ever virtual solar conference hosted by our friends over at Midwest Solar Expo 2020.

I was the moderator for a panel dedicated all about the innovations around operations and maintenance. This topic certainly demands more attention than what it’s getting within the clean energy industry, so we’re trying to give it more exposure. Thanks to our friends at Midwest Solar Expo 2020, as well as the fantastic individuals who participated in this panel:

• Etienne Lecompte, Founder & CEO of PowerHub

• Eric Peterman, CEO of GRNE Solar

• Reegan Moen, Business Development Manager of SOLV

It was such an interesting conversation, so stay tuned to hear all of their contributions to this panel. If you’d like to see how this looks like in the virtual-reality space, check out our Youtube videos below.

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy & Adani Solar US for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Etienne on LinkedIn

Connect with Eric on LinkedIn

Connect with Reegan on LinkedIn

Remember that the transcript of this episode is available HERE

277 - How light changes lives, Nicole Watson of Econic Earth Foundation

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

It’s truly an honor every time I get the chance on this show to highlight the work that folks are doing to bring light, electricity, hope and opportunity to those less fortunate. Today’s entrepreneur has traveled the world producing and acting in films, and she has learned what a privilege we have in developed countries to consider electric lights and running water a necessity, not a luxury.

She also has seen first hand how introducing the simplest of light can eradicate darkness in many different ways, and elevate equity, in particular among females, in powerful ways in a community. That’s why Nicole Watson founded Econic Earth Foundation. She’s taking light into dark places from India to Kenya and bringing good news to you and me... and she's just getting started. 

I encourage you to set aside some time as you hear her story and ponder what you also can do with the freedom and luxuries you’ve been afforded to care for those less fortunate. You may not start a foundation, or even a movement, but you can be sure you have the power to change lives.

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Nicole on LinkedIn and Twitter

Check out the work of econic earth foundation on Twitter and their website.

The ‘Watts On Lighting Students Lives’ program was inspired by the safety, security and empowerment that Light brings. DOWNLOAD the official guide here!

Remember that the transcript of this episode is available HERE

Your Dose of Motivation

276 - 10 Predictions for Solar+storage in the 20’s, with Paul Dailey, Outback Power

Happy Tuesday, Solar Warrior!

Welcome to another Tactical Tuesday, a short-form conversation with subject-matter experts designed to give you practical tools, tips and advice for building your clean energy business or career. 

Here at SunCast, we’ve been spending a fair amount of time on energy storage lately. The episode you’re about to hear was actually recorded at the beginning of the pandemic, but I knew I had a storage blitz coming, and figured it’d be a better fit here.

Today’s conversation is aimed to discuss the storage scenarios many of you face, which are Residential & Commercial spaces, and today’s Intrapreneur, Paul Dailey, has a decorated career in some of the most recognized and established solar companies in the business serving those 2 markets.

It’s no wonder Outback Power recruited him to head Product and Market Strategy, and it was great to have a fellow podcaster on the show as Paul originated the AEE podcast nearly a decade ago!

We are going to dig into Paul’s predictions for Storage based on an article he penned for GTM back in February. We covered system costs, storage trends, safety standards, AC v DC Coupling and more.

Thanks a ton to our podcast sponsors, Extensible Energy for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

Connect with Paul on LinkedIn

Check out the work of OutBack Power on Twitter and their website

Articles by Paul:

10 Predictions for the Solar and Storage Market in the 2020s

Three signs that battery energy storage is mainstream today

Remember that the transcript of this episode is available HERE

275 - Is this the end for Natural Gas peakers in CA? Strata Solar's big storage play

Happy Thursday, Solar Warrior.

If you are new to SunCast, welcome to our Tribe! I hope you’ll find this information helps you enter through the side door and bypass some of the hard-won life lessons from our hundreds of guests!

Today we are going to explore what it looks like to develop a Solar+ Storage project at scale.

As we enter into the Solar+ Decade, storage is increasingly becoming an area of expertise for the industry’s leading EPCs and Development firms. Those of you familiar with Strata Solar won’t need an introduction to this North Carolina based EPC that has quietly dominated the Southeast markets for a decade.

One of our LATAM Market Solar Warriors, Josh Rogol, joined Strata Solar to run their Energy Storage division. Today, he along with his colleagues Will Mitchell and Garrett Lehman, are going to help us understand the development of a truly remarkable achievement from this company: the 400 MWh Battery Energy Storage System recently approved for construction in Ventura, California.

IF you are developing Commercial solar projects, you really should consider how they can help:

Extensible Energy

Resources

Connect with Josh on LinkedIn and Twitter

Connect with Will on LinkedIn

Connect with Garrett on LinkedIn

Check out the work of Strata Solar on Twitter and their website

Remember that the transcript of this episode is available HERE

274 - How does Resource Adequacy work for California energy markets? with Will Mitchell of Strata Solar

Welcome to another Tactical Tuesday, a short-form conversation with subject-matter experts designed to give you practical tools, tips and advice for building your solar business or career.

This week, we have an in-depth look at the ins and outs of building a project that incorporates a massive battery component to the equation. Energy Storage is all the rage in California, and all over the renewable energy landscape in the world. There’s at least one missing element to the conversation to understand the how and why folks are able to monetize and deploy these battery systems: resource adequacy.

Consequently, we are diving into the following questions:

• What is resource adequacy?

• Why does it matter?

• Who is involved in the discussion?

We’ll answer these questions and more with Will Mitchell, Director of Origination for the Western U.S. of Strata Solar, a massive EPC from North Carolina with over a decade of success developing, constructing and commissioning more than 150 utility-scale projects

Will is responsible for business development, customer relationships, government and policy affairs, and more details that you will be able to find on this Thursday’s episode once it goes live.

If you really love this stuff, then you should check out the hundreds of additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and our Energy Tribe newsletter so you won’t miss the next one that drops!

IF you are developing Commercial solar projects, you really should consider how they can help:

Extensible Energy

Resources

Connect with Will on LinkedIn

Check out the work of Strata Solar on their website

California Hands Control Over Resource Adequacy to Utilities, Angering Community Choice Groups

Remember that the transcript of this episode is available HERE

273 - Predicting the future: Solar Forecasting and Biohacking Longevity | with Dr. Nick Engerer

Welcome back, #SolarWarriors!

If you are new to SunCast, welcome to our Tribe! I hope you’ll find this information helps you enter through the side door and bypass some of the hard-won life lessons from our hundreds of guests!

Our guests rarely get very specific about the decision matrix of forming their business, and understanding the unique space they hold that makes their version of the widget the best in the world.

Today’s entrepreneur, Dr. Nick Engerer, found his way to his current job, or rather created his current job, vis a vis academia. We dove into the mind of a brilliant thinker, biohacker and true process engineer who’s not satisfied with status quo. His company, SolCast,  provides  solar irradiance & power forecasting data to some of the largest IPPs and Utilities in the world.

How and why did he decide to dedicate that last decade of this his life to this? Why did he end up in Australia of all places to work it out? Tune-in to find out.

If you really love this stuff,, then you should check out the hundreds of additional founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com. And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast and our Energy Tribe newsletter so you won’t miss the next one that drops!

IF you are developing Commercial solar projects, you really should consider how they can help:

Extensible Energy

Resources

Connect with Dr. Nick on LinkedIn and Twitter

Check out the work of SolCast on their website

What is Longevity? Find out here at Nick’s website

Remember that the transcript of this episode is available HERE

Books mentioned

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey

The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

Influence - Robert B. Cialdini

Exponential Organizations - Salim Ismail