300 - SunCast 300th episode with Adam James, Part 1

SunCast 300th Episode

Welcome back, Solar Warrior! It’s a very special day as we’ve reached our 300th episode, and I could not be more thankful to you.

The story that you're going to hear today takes us back to the very beginning. Mr. Adam James was the first interview guest here on SunCast, and he’s back to celebrate this important milestone with us.

It is a distinct honor to bring him back now for his third appearance here on SunCast. In that time, Adam has risen to the position of Chief of Staff at Energy Impact Partners, which is a nearly $700MM dollar strategic venture investment fund focused on sustainable energy.

Adam is going deep down the rabbit hole of how he helps to run this very impactful fund in our industry, as well as a little baby of his called the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, upon which he sits as a board chair and as Co-Founder of that nonprofit, which empowers young professionals in clean energy.

Our conversation will be a 2-part episode

Adam and I rambled on for about an hour and forty-five minutes, so we're going to split that up into two episodes. This is part 1, where Adam and I go down memory lane to discuss what was the world economy like and the CO2 levels back in 2015 when we launched SunCast.

On part 2 coming out next Tuesday, we get really deep into Adam’s daily routine, how he manages his calendar, and how he manages his schedule. Adam kind of gives all about how he balances a family of three and being the effectively right hand of the CEO of this major venture fund. It's a wide-ranging but very fun conversation. I hope that you'll stick around and enjoy it.

If you love this episode, then you should check out our almost 300 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 PowerHub for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

Resources

What was happening when Adam and I recorded Episode #1?

CO2 Levels in 2015

2015 Renewable Energy Data Book

Adam’s Go-to note-taking tool

Connect with Adam on LinkedIn and Twitter

Check out the work of Energy Impact Partners on their website

Check out the work of Clean Energy Leadership Institute on their website

Books mentioned

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

299 - SunCast Weekly Roundup Live at SPI 2020, Week 2

Welcome back, 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 solar business or career.

We're so excited to be back with you for SPI, ESI & NORTH AMERICA SMART ENERGY WEEK 2020 in its new virtual format. Alongside my friend Glenda Johnson, we're stoked to have been invited back by the SPI team to bring you an exciting new segment - the SunCast Weekly Roundup. This is a recap of week 2, where interesting sessions like “Financing Renewables in the Face of COVID 19” or “Variations on Community Solar Program Design” took place.

In today’s episode, you’ll be able to hear insights from clean-energy thought leaders like Cassandra John, Utopia Hill, Jessie Robbins, and Caileen Gamache as they share with us their insights on week 2 sessions, as well as their experience of participating in this fully-virtual format of North America’s most popular cleantech tradeshow.

If you love this episode, then you should check out our almost 300 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 sponsor, Extensible Energy for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

298 - How to find your ideal role, with Ebony Seymour of GQR Global Markets

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

Today's entrepreneur is a new friend of mine, introduced by our friend Tara Doyle and Amanda Bybee.

Ebony Seymour is the Associate Vice President at GQR Global Markets, and if you're not familiar with either GQR or Ebony, you're in for a treat.

We're gonna go deep into how Ebony rose from Associate to Associate Vice President in the recruiting world, and how she's adding value to private equity, investment banking in the renewable sector and infrastructure, and the many ways she has self-educated herself and helped educate others about how the renewable energy world works.

She is adding value for companies that trust her to bring talent to the table, so if you are looking for talent or if you see yourself as a talented professional trying to find your way through the quagmire of information of how to break into the clean energy business, today's interview is for you.

Resources

Connect with Ebony on LinkedIn

Follow GQR Global Markets on Twitter and their website

Books mentioned

The Power of Self-Confidence: Become Unstoppable, Irresistible, and Unafraid in Every Area of Your Life

297 - SunCast Weekly Roundup Live at SPI 2020, Week 1

Welcome back, 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 solar business or career.

We're so excited to be back with you for SPI, ESI & NORTH AMERICA SMART ENERGY WEEK 2020 in its new virtual format. Alongside my friend Glenda Johnson, we're stoked to have been invited back by the SPI team to bring you an exciting new segment - the SunCast Weekly Roundup. This is a recap of week 1, where interesting sessions like “Closing the Circuit: Outlooks for a Cleaner Electricity System” or “Get on Board: Engaging Stakeholders in Developing Grid Modernization Plans” took place.

In today’s episode, you’ll be able to hear insights from clean-energy thought leaders like Anne Hoskins, Virinder Singh, and Fatima Ahmad, as they share with us their insights on week 1 sessions, as well as their experience of participating in this fully-virtual format of North America’s most popular cleantech tradeshow.

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 sponsor, Extensible Energy for continuing to help make this content FREE to You! Please check them out and let me know what you think!

296 - What are the 16 Core Infrastructure Sectors of Modern Economy? with Hanna Grene of PXiSE

Today’s guest is taking us into what is like to work in a fast-moving intrapreneurial role at a mega-corporation inside Energy Industry.

Hanna Grene is the Head of Commercial Development for PXiSE Energy Solutions, a growing company that builds technology to manage an increasingly complex, renewable, and distributed energy grid. In this role, Hanna oversees market development, sales, marketing, external relations, and global partnerships.

She goes down the rabbit hole of positioning yourself not only as a young leader but also working through the dynamic as a female leader in a largely male-dominated industry. After having Hanna’s boss and Co-Founder of PXiSE, Patrick Lee, for episode 266, we invited her to come back today.

If you love this episode, then you should check out the more than 300 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 sponsor, 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 Hanna on LinkedIn and Twitter

Check out PXiSE on Twitter and their website

Read: Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce

CISA’s Frequently Asked Questions

Books mentioned

The First 90 Days - Michael D. Watkins

Strategize to Win - Carla A. Harris

Talking to Humans - Giff Constable

The Art of Authenticity - Karissa Thacker

295 - How do medium to large scale solar projects get done? with Jesse Grossman of Soltage

Welcome back, 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 solar business or career.

Today we have a repeating guest, Jesse Grossman, Co-Founder & CEO of Soltage. We already had Jesse on the show in episode 283, where we dropped the replay of the webinar we had back in June: Solar Project Finance & Acquisitions in the Post-COVID Era.

The webinar included valuable insights around not only how Soltage has grown to be one of the leaders in developing solar assets in the United States, but also advice and insight from Jesse’s 10+ years since the last recession.

Today, we’re going to drill down on one of the topics that came up during our last episode: how to support and empower developers through the development cycle into the disposition of the asset-selling process, and how to do it not only to build their business but YOUR business as well, in case you are a company bringing asset finance and deep market knowledge.

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 sponsor, 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 Jesse on LinkedIn

Check out the work of Soltage on their website

Click here to watch the replay of the webinar Jesse and I did back in June

294 - A golden opportunity in the Sunshine State, with Daren Goldin

Welcome back, Solar Warrior!

I’m‌ ‌honored‌ ‌you’re‌ ‌joining‌ ‌me‌ ‌for‌ ‌another‌ ‌fantastic‌ ‌foray‌ ‌into‌ ‌the‌ ‌world‌ ‌of‌ ‌solar‌ energy.‌ Today’s guest, Daren Goldin, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Goldin Solar, one of Florida's leading solar energy contractors with over 1,000 active installations throughout the state.

Daren founded Goldin Solar in 2014 to bring the best solar technology available to Floridians to help them save money and protect the planet.

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 sponsor, 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 Daren on LinkedIn

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

Books mentioned

21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari

293 - Selling residential solar with real data, Brian Lynch of LG Solar USA

Welcome back, 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 solar business or career.

If you have been building a residential solar installation business, then today’s episode is for you. Are you on the front lines trying to convince homeowners for value over price, and trying to help them understand how this investment is going to improve their overall well-being and life?

Grab a seat and listen to this conversation with LG Electronic’s Brian Lynch, the Director of Solar and Storage. Working closely with industry contacts and partners, Brian has been involved in hundreds of megawatts of solar projects that are generating clean energy around the world.

We went deep on some recent consumer research information that’s going to help you better sell solar.

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 Brian on LinkedIn

Check out the work of LG Electronics on its website

Read:

• Residential solar customers don’t want the cheapest system in a $20K investment – they want the best one

• People in quarantine are searching for solar power

• There’s more to solar systems than module capacity

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