Solar Maverick Podcast

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy talks with Tom Williard who the CEO and Principal of Sage Energy Consulting.  Sage Energy Consulting works with clients to help them implement renewable energy and energy efficiency projects including solar, wind, energy storage, microgrids, fuel cells, and EV fleet transition planning and infrastructure support.  There are many...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy talks with Joshua Hill who is a solar consultant and is recently the first person to drive across the United States with solar powered vehicle. Joshua took an electric box truck weighing in at over 8 tons fueling it with only solar power. He talks about his cross country journey, predictions regarding electric vehicles, and why s...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy talks with Mike Casey who is the Founder and CEO at Tigercomm.  Tigercomm is the leading U.S. cleantech PR, marketing communications and public affairs firm, counsels cleantech executives and investors and passionately designs, builds, and runs winning communications programs.  Mike discusses how clean energy companies should mar...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Benoy talks with Steve Raeder who is the Founder and CEO at Summit Ridge Energy and Brian Dunn who serves as dual role COO/CFO and co-founder at Summit Ridge Energy.  Summit Ridge Energy is the nation’s leading owner-operator of community solar assets, providing energy savings to thousands of customers across the country. They speak about how they...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Benoy talks with William Szamosszegi  who is the Founder and CEO at Sazmining which is a cryptocurrency mining, consulting, and management firm.  William talks about cryptocurrency and the importance of cryptomining and how renewable energy can be incorporated into cryptomining. He also discusses how energy storage is a game changer for cryptomini...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Benoy talks with Shounok Sinha who is an investment principal at Constellation Technology Ventures.  Shounok discusses many interesting topics like the electrification of the transportation fleet, future of solar plus storage, and his predications on the electricity grid of the future.    Benoy Thanjan Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Benoy talks with Eric Pasi who is the Chief Development Officer at Innovative Power Systems(“IPS”) which is full-service clean energy development firm about the Midwest solar market and other solar markets that the company focuses on and the community solar segment.  Also, Eric wrote a new book called the CleanWave: A Guide to Success in the Green...

SMP 83:  NJ Solar Market Overview Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy Thanjan, the host of the podcast, discusses the NJ Solar Market which has been top ten state for solar deployment in the United States and has an ambitious goal of 100% clean energy by 2050.  He discusses a lot of the new developments in the NJ Solar market for example new solar state level incen...

SMP 82:  Startup Focuses on Technology Innovations for Solar Panels Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Bill Nussey and Dr. Ben Damiani discuss their startup Solar Inventions and how they are improving solar technology and scaling up and commercializing their inventions.  They also speak about being the first winner of the American-Made Solar Prize Competition and how it...

  Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, John Lee Dumas("JLD"), founder and host of the Entrepreneurs on Fire podcast, talks about his experiences with solar power in Puerto Rico, shares the three things that make entrepreneurs successful, and where is the future of the podcast industry.   With over 2,500 episodes, 1 million + listens a month, and seven-figures of annual revenue, JLD i...

  Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Benoy talks with Andy Klump of Clean Energy Associates about how the rising demand for solar power has also created a rising need for greater quality assurance within the solar industry. Andy discusses what quality assurance in solar means, what sets CEA apart from their competitors, and what he sees as key trends in the solar and energy storage...

SMP 79:  Building the Solar Future Through Solar Forecasting   Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Dr. Nick Engerer who is the CTO and co-founder of Solcast speaks about how new advancements in cloud computing and satellites has allowed Solcast to create comprehensive models for solar forecasting. He also speaks about how solar forecasting is extremely important regardin...

SMP 78:  Solar Dynamic Selling System for Solar Enrgy   Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Rylee Meek is the CEO and Founder of the Social Dynamic Selling System talks extensively on how his one to many sales system through dinner seminars is a game changer for solar companies. He also speaks about his entrepreneurial journey and how he adapted his business during COVID...

SMP 77:  Expert Insights: Driving Growth in the Energy Storage Industry Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Kelly Speakes-Backman who is the first CEO of the U.S. Energy Storage Association (“ESA”) discusses about the many benefits of energy storage.  She also talks about how the cost is decreasing exponentially and the storage capacity keeps increasing significantly, ho...

SMP 76:  How CS Energy has grown rapidly and differentiated itself from other solar installers? Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Kevin Magayah and Matt Tripoli from CS Energy discuss the company's competitive advantages in solar construction and energy technologies that the company is looking to construct.  Also, they speak about what precautions that the company took...

SMP 75:  Mid-Year Solar Trends 2020 June 9, 2020 Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy, the host of the podcast, speaks about mid-year trends in solar.  He talks about how COVID-19 had a major impact on the solar industry.  Benoy speaks about how third party financing will be more popular post COVID-19 and states will continue to take leadership role in promoting ren...

SMP 74:  Impact on COVID-19 on Residential Solar May 26, 2020   Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Nathan Jovanelly of IGS Solar speaks about how IGS Solar differentiates from other solar residential financiers.  Nate talks about how the residential solar industry has been impacted by COVID-19.  We also discuss how renewable energy should be incentivized in the United S...

SMP 73:  Policy discussion on the NJ and NY Solar Market Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick, Benoy interviews Alex Rivera who is the Senior Vice President of Business Development from Vanguard Energy Partners.  Vanguard Energy Partners is a national solar design-build firm that specializes in commercial, industrial, and utility-scale projects.    Alex talks about the incentives...

Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Benoy and Li speak about how COV19 has affected the solar industry and they also speak about state level initiatives that were passed this month to increase solar deployment.   Benoy and Li also speak about suggestions that they have to have a positive outlook and be successful during the pandemic. Benoy Thanjan  Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and C...

    Episode Summary This episode of Create Your Life Series will motivate you to make and keep your resolutions this year.  Kevin talks with Benoy Thanjan, owner of Reneu Energy, about his path to entrepreneurship in the solar energy industry and his passion project, the Solar Maverick podcast.  Benoy and Kevin look back on their journeys over the past year and discuss what it takes to be successf...

  Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Manish Nayar, the founder and managing partner of OYA Solar, shares his entrepreneurial experience and perspective with Benoy and discusses how a Canadian company made its home in the United States solar market.  Whether you are in the research stage or a veteran business owner, this episode is a ray of light for solar entrepreneurs.   Benoy Tha...

    Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick, Benoy asks Daryl Pilon and Bob Burwasser about why roofing and solar are important and how roof restoration with solar allow more rooftop solar projects to be constructed.  This discussion is an in-depth look at what roof restoration entails, what makes a good solar platform, and how the cost-saving benefits will last well into the future....

  Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Jon Powers shares the origin story of CleanCapital and how they went from an idea to a start-up to a successful investment capital firm in clean energy.  Jon discusses how CleanCapital studied what was working in other business sectors to create an internal technology platform to identify and acquire clean energy assets, underwrite them efficien...

Episode Summary In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Kushagra Nandan provides a unique international perspective on the solar industry that comes from his early days in the United States solar market, starting his company, SunSource, in India, and his experience working on over 300 solar projects across many countries throughout India, Asia, and Africa.  While talking about his journey w...

  Episode Summary In this episode of Solar Maverick, Rich Walsh shares his journey to founding Madison Energy Investments with his two other partners, why Madison Energy Investment focuses on the Commercial and Industrial (C&I) solar market, and their goal of owning solar projects in every state.  The overall discussion is a very high-level look at trends in the solar industry, the complicated fin...