Soliverse | The Future of Solar

By Peter Pongracz

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Episodes: 42

Description

Soliverse is a solar and renewable energy podcast for professionals who want clarity in an industry that keeps shifting under their feet.

The energy transition is moving fast, but the real story is not in press releases or policy headlines. It is in how projects get financed, permitted, connected to the grid, and built in the real world. Soliverse focuses on solar, storage, and the broader energy ecosystem, with a strong emphasis on utility scale projects in the EU and the US.

Through in depth conversations with developers, operators, investors, engineers, and industry leaders, the podcast explores how successful teams navigate changing regulation, political risk, grid constraints, and volatile capital markets. The goal is simple, to cut through noise and hype and replace it with practical, execution focused insight.

Listening to Soliverse will help you:
• Understand where solar, storage, grids, and capital are really going
• Learn directly from people building and financing real projects
• Connect the dots between technology, policy, finance, and execution
• Avoid common and costly mistakes by learning from experienced operators
• Stay relevant and competitive as the solar industry matures and consolidates

Soliverse is for anyone working in solar and renewables who wants to think more clearly, move faster, and lead with confidence as the energy transition accelerates.


Episode Date
How Sand Batteries Are Quietly Solving Industrial Heat Emissions | Soliverse Ep. 41
Jun 10, 2026
How Robots and AI Are Rebuilding Solar Construction From Scratch | Soliverse Ep. 40
May 27, 2026
Why Simplicity May Be Solar’s Biggest Advantage Right Now ft. Aaron Nichols & Jacob Yang | Soliverse Ep. 39
May 13, 2026
Understanding How Regulation, Politics, & Markets Actually Impact Solar and BESS Projects in the EU | Soliverse Ep. 38
Apr 22, 2026
What Happens When Energy Policy Ignores Storage ft. Dr. Radovan Kopecek | Soliverse Ep. 37
Apr 08, 2026
Navigating EU vs. US Solar Regulation ft. Benoy Thanjan | Soliverse Ep. 36
Mar 25, 2026
How Top Solar Teams Handle Red Tape | Soliverse Ep. 35
Mar 11, 2026
How Romania is Beating Western Europe on Solar & Storage
Dec 10, 2025
David Spieldenner on PVsyst, 3D Modeling, and What It Really Takes to Scale Solar
Dec 03, 2025
15 Years in EPC: Andreas Bach on Solar Construction Mistakes, MC4 & Grid Bottlenecks...
Nov 26, 2025
Geospatial AI for Solar Developers: Planno.io's Blueprint for Smarter C&I Pipelines with Daniel Domingues
Nov 20, 2025
Joshua Feinberg on Sales, AI, Talent in Clean Infrastructure and Data Centers
Nov 13, 2025
Genna Boyle of Gridcog.com on Flexibility, Grid Chaos, and the Future of Energy Modeling
Oct 30, 2025
Dr. Marek Kubik on BESS, AI, and Scaling a Billion-Dollar Energy Company
Oct 22, 2025
Tim Montague on AI, Solar Economics, and Why Batteries Are Just the Beginning
Oct 15, 2025
Joachim Rupp on Scale, Storage, and Solar’s Missing Link: Systems Thinking
Oct 08, 2025
Guillaume Burstert (Sunwise) on Containerized Solar, Supply Chains, and Lighting Up 300M Lives
Oct 01, 2025
Martin Lips (Fusebox) on Flexibility, Grid Chaos, and Building the Software Layer Europe Desperately Needs
Sep 17, 2025
Julia Wu & Anuj Saigal (SparkHQ.ai) on AI, Permitting Bottlenecks, and the Next Wave of Solar Development
Sep 16, 2025
Trygve Mongstad from Over Easy Solar on Vertical PV, Green Roofs, and the Rooftop Revolution
Sep 03, 2025
How Joachim Reinhardt and Variate.Energy are Redesigning Solar with Hybrid Data, Storage, and Smart Demand Matching?
Aug 27, 2025
Advantage Capital’s Tom Bitting on Financing Solar, Storage, and the AI-Powered Energy Transition
Aug 20, 2025
SolarPower Europe’s Bethany Meban on the Future of Solar: Storage, Policy, and the Net-Zero Industry Act
Aug 13, 2025
How Roofit.Solar and CEO Andres Anijalg Are Transforming Metal Roofing into High-Performance Solar Energy Systems
Aug 06, 2025
Shaping the Future of Solar: Tech, Industry & Policy Insights with Dr. Rado Kopecek, Co-Founder of ISC Konstanz
Jul 30, 2025
Feasibility-First Solar + Battery Modeling Software with James Allston, Co-Founder & Head of Growth at Orkestra
Jul 23, 2025
AI and Self-Design: The Future of Residential Solar Sales with Surya Potharaju, CEO of Arka Energy (Arka360)
Jul 17, 2025
AgriVoltaics & Dynamic Solar Land‑Use Strategies with Mo Horowitz, CCO of Solargik
Jul 11, 2025
Reinventing PV Structures for Utility-Scale Projects with Maksim Markevich, Co-Founder of PVFarm & Sunbim
Jul 01, 2025
Monthly recap - May - Enerdatics, SolidClouds, RatedPower
Jun 04, 2025
Designing Smarter PV & AI‑Driven Solar Projects with Carla Coghen, Director at RatedPower
May 28, 2025
3D Drone Modeling and Point-Cloud Tech in Solar Design with Jordan, CEO of Solidclouds
May 21, 2025
AI-Driven Clean Energy Intelligence with Mohit Kaul, Founder of Enerdatics
May 13, 2025
Monthly recap - April - nTeaser, PVComplete, Helioscope
May 06, 2025
Paul Grana on Building Helioscope, Solar Software Growth, and the Aurora Solar Acquisition
Apr 22, 2025
Fixing Solar Engineering with Automated PV Design Tools with Shane Lebow, CEO of PVComplete
Apr 22, 2025
Bridging Renewable Energy Financing & M&A with Miguel Galatas, Co-Founder of nTeaser
Apr 15, 2025
Monthly recap - March - Heliokraft, Sitemark, pvX
Apr 08, 2025
AI and Drone Tech in Solar Asset Management with Stanislas van den Vaeren from Sitemark.com
Apr 01, 2025
Simplifying Solar PV Design with pvX Software with Orçun Başlak
Mar 25, 2025
Heliokraft’s 360° Solar & Thermal Energy Solutions with Michael Zapf
Mar 18, 2025
Pilot - Where it all began?
Feb 24, 2025