Solar Maverick Podcast

Episode Summary In this episode, Benoy interviews Dan French, the Executive Producer of the Solar Farm Summit and Virginia Solar Summit . Dan discusses Agrivoltaics, Virginia Solar Summit on August 31st, and the first annual Solar Farm Summit. Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy and he is also an advisor for several solar startup companies.  He has extensive project...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick Podcast,  Benoy is joined by his co-host Nate Jovanelly and they interview Kailtin Savage from Hodson Energy and Stephanie Johnson who is the Executive Director of Chesapeake Solar & Storage Association(“CHESSA”).  There are many interesting topics that were discussed regarding the challenges of the PJM Interconnection Queue, the impact of the...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick Podcast,  Benoy speaks to Martin Pochtaruk who is a President at Heliene, US and Canadian manufacturer of High Efficiency Solar PV Modules.  Martin speaks primarily about how Heliene has differentiated itself from foreign solar manufacturers,  the opportunity for domestic solar panel manufacturing from the Inflation Reduction(“...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick Podcast,  Benoy speaks to Adam Schurle who is a Tax Partner with Foley & Lardner.  Adam speaks primarily about the transferability guidance provided by the IRS on the Inflation Reduction(“IRA”) and he also talks about the IRS guidance on Tax Credit Sales and Direct Cash Payments.   Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Ene...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick Podcast,  Benoy speaks to Sierra Jackovics who is Government and Energy Policy Specialist for Mana Pacific.  Mana Pacific is a social impact company and benefit corporation that develops, finances, and de-risks scalable island resiliency projects in Hawaii and the 22 Pacific Island Territories and Countries.  Sierra speaks about developing projects...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick Podcast,  Benoy is interviewed by Logan Chipkin about Solar and Bitcoin and how Solar Energy can be used for Bitcoin Mining.   Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy and he is also an advisor for several solar startup companies.  He has extensive project origination, development, and financial experience in the renewable...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Nathan Jovanelly who is the head of business development from Enerflo and the owner of Jovanelly LLC.  Enerflo is a platform for Solar Sales and Operations and has processed $2 Billion in solar transactions to date.  Nate speaks about his 2023 solar predictions and how technology is going to accelerate solar deploymen...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Gregory Wetstone who is the President and CEO of American Council on Renewable Energy (“ACORE”).  Greg gives an update on  the Inflation Reduction Act(“IRA”) and talks about current policy issues in renewables.  He also talks about how ACORE is leading as a trade organization in the equitable transition of renewables...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Bill Jordan and John Moran about Let’s Share the Sun Foundation.  Since 2010, Let’s Share the Sun Foundation has been installing solar across Haiti, Honduras, and Puerto Rico.  The Foundation has partnered with local solar installers, equipment manufacturers, and US solar companies to bring solar to communities in nee...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Nathan Jovanelly who is the head of business development from Enerflo and the owner of Jovanelly LLC.  Enerflo is a platform for Solar Sales and Operations and has processed $2 Billion in solar transactions to date.  Nate speaks about many interesting topics like how technology and software is innovating the solar ind...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, it is introduction of pilot episode of a new podcast from Spencer from Enerflo and Benoy where they speak about topics of interest. Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy, as well as an advisor for several solar startup companies. Reneu Energy is a premier international solar energy consulting firm and devel...

Episode Summary   In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Bill Jordan and John Moran about Let’s Share the Sun Foundation.  Since 2010, Let’s Share the Sun Foundation has been installing solar across Haiti, Honduras, and Puerto Rico.  The Foundation has partnered with local solar installers, equipment manufacturers, and US solar companies to bring solar to communities in n...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Spencer who is the co-founder from Enerflo.  Enerflo is a platform for Solar Sales and Operations and has processed $2 Billion in solar transactions to date.  Spencer speaks about many interesting topics like how lowering soft costs is the next big thing in solar, Enerflo’s software simplifies the solar process, selli...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick Podcast, John Chaimanis and Benoy Thanjan talk about Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure (KSI), how it was founded and how it can differentiate itself from its competitors. Their conversation in this episode goes into development capital, John's ideal projects, his thoughts on frictionless close, why he discourages discounting electricity for commun...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick Podcast, Nigel Morris and Benoy Thanjan discuss the differences between the Australian and U.S solar markets and the varying pricing costs. Benoy highlights the high solar prices, especially in the U.S, and the factors contributing to the costs. Finally, he provides lessons that the Australian market can learn from the U.S solar industry and what h...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick Podcast, Kent Halliburton takes us on his journey into the solar industry and bitcoin mining. Starting immediately after college, he worked at REC Solar for a few years before moving to Real Goods. He picked up his dream of traveling and began pursuing his passion for crypto. He takes us through the journey of how he was able to bring together his...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with John Powers about his company Extensible Energy whose mission is to bring energy intelligence to the small to medium building owners. Some of interesting things that John speaks about building energy intelligence for small to medium commercial and industrial buildings and changing how Solar sells to Commercial Custome...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Bill Nussey about his new book Freeing Energy which is a must read if you are in the solar industry or interested in solar.  The book focuses on how innovators are using local-scale solar and batteries to disrupt the global energy industry from the outside in.  Freeing Energy is a deeply researched, actionable guide f...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Mark Culpepper who is the GM for global solar solutions at DroneBase, which is accurately and cost-effectively inspect solar assets to identify system anomalies so you can increase energy output, recover lost energy revenue, and mitigate risk.  Mark Culpepper speaks about many interesting topics like how Dronebase is...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Nobel Chang who is the Managing Partner of Commercial Strategy & Business Development from Palladium Energy.  Palladium Energy is a solar developer and investor that develops utility scale solar projects in the US.  Nobel speaks about many interesting topics like how to look at a new solar market, how to scale solar d...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Nathan Jovanelly who is the head of business development from Enerflo.  Enerflo is a platform for Solar Sales and Operations and has processed $2 Billion in solar transactions to date.  Nate speaks about many interesting topics like how lowering soft costs is the next big thing in solar, Enerflo’s software simplifies...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Jordan Leventhal from Invenergy and John Moran from Lafayette Square.  They discuss REACTIVATE which is a new innovative solar platform which is a joint venture between Invenergy and Lafayette Square. By 2030, Reactivate seeks to develop three gigawatts (“GW”) of renewable energy capacity, save $50 million in energy c...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Harald Overholm who is the CEO and Founder of Alight Energy.  Alight Energy is the leading solar Power Purchase Agreement provider in the Nordics and developing more than 500 MW of PPA-based onsite and offsite projects across Europe.  Harald speaks about many interesting topics like the European PPA market, how the Eu...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Jim Spano who is the Co-Founder, Head of Originations of Sol-REIT and Mark Settles who is the CEO of Sol-REIT.  Sol-REIT offers long-term, fixed rate debt that matches the operational life of an asset and at a lower cost of capital.  Jim and Mark speak about many interesting topics like how developers can keep more of...