Solar Maverick Podcast
The Solar Maverick Podcast is the insiders guide to where the solar and energy markets meet entrepreneurship and trailblazing. Hosted by Benoy Thanjan - a serial entrepreneur and founder of Reneu Energy one of the industries top companies. Benoy is known for his passion, leadership and style. Always eager to truly learn from his guests, Thanjan digs deep and provides a tangible blueprint for his listeners to put what he’s learning to immediate use - making the show not only funny but entertaining, energetic and hyper -useful.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 199
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
SMP 202: Unlocking Capital: Financing Solar, Storage & Repowering Legacy Assets
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, host Benoy Thanjan sits down with Richard Weihe, Managing Director of Rosemawr Sustainable Infrastructure Management.
Rich shares valuable insights on u…
SMP 201: Insights from Ampion on Scaling Community Solar
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy sits down with Vihann Kong, Senior Executive Director of Enterprise Acquisition at Ampion. Ampion is driving the clean energy revolution by expand…
SMP 200: From Episode 1 to 200: The Solar Maverick Podcast Journey
In this special 200th episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, host Benoy Thanjan and co-host Li Wang, Marketing Director of Reneu Energy and the Solar Maverick Podcast, reflect on their journey to thi…
SMP 197: Revolutionizing Solar Panel Recycling with Adam Saghei
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy sits down with Adam Saghei, CEO and Founder of We Recycle Solar, at their state-of-the-art recycling facility—the only certified solar waste dispo…
SMP 196: Scaling Solar with Smart Racking: A Conversation with Vishal Lala
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy sits down with Vishal Lala, CEO and Founder of Polar Racking, a North American leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of solar PV mo…
SMP 195: Unlocking Peak Solar Performance with O&M Services
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy sits down with Chris Grablutz, Principal and Co-founder of Tri-Force Energy—a leading Commercial & Utility Solar Inspection, Testing, and Maintena…
SMP 194: 2025 Solar Outlook
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy and his co-host Nate Jovanelly, CEO of Sunraise Capital, speak about the 2025 Solar Outlook.
Benoy Thanjan
Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of…
SMP 191: The Early Stages of the US Agrivoltaics Industry
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy interviews Peter Schmitt, Director of Project Development at US Solar. Peter shares insights on agrivoltaics, highlights the key states where US S…
SMP 190: Tom Weirich Discusses His Book About The Original Risk Takers in Renewable Energy
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Tom Weirich, the Head of Marketing & Stakeholder Relations - North America at EDP Renewables North America. Tom is a…
SMP 186: Concentro: Innovative Platform for Clean Energy Tax Credits
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, host Benoy chats with Iñigo Rengifo Melia and Tao Mantaras from Concentro, a platform specializing in distributed generation clean energy tax credits. I…
SMP 185: Anker Solix Providing Anytime Power with Energy Storage
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy interviews David Taylor, Andrew Aldama, and Adam Weissman from Anker Solix. With solar and energy storage technology, Anker SOLIX gives you compl…
SMP 184: How Catalyze is scaling solar & storage project ownership for C&I and Distributed Solar Projects?
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy interviews Jared Haines, CEO and COO of Catalyze. Catalyze is accelerating the large-scale transition to clean, renewable energy by making it eas…
SMP 183: Viridi: The World’s First Fail-Safe Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage System
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy interviews John Williams, CEO of Virdi. Virdi designs and builds fail-safe battery energy storage systems with on-demand, affordable power for ma…
SMP 182: How the US Presidential Election Will Impact Renewables?
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy and his co-host Nate Jovanelly, CEO of Sunraise Capital, speak about how the renewable energy industry would be impacted by the US Presidential El…
SMP 178: Automated Solar Panel Cleaning Increases Production by 30 percent or more
Episode Summary
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Matt Casey who is the Owner of RST North America CleanTech Solutions. RST CleanTech was established in 2013 and quick…
SMP 176: REplus Takeaways
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy and his co-host Nate Jovanelly, CEO of Sunraise Capital, speak about their takeaways from REplus. REplus is the largest renewable conference and …
SMP 171: Beyond Boundaries : Benoy Thanjan on Success, Family, and the Jersey Shore
Episode Summary
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy Thanjan, the host of the Solar Maverick Podcast, was interviewed by Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco on his podcast called "What Are You Mad…
SMP 169: Innovative Finacing Solution Allowing Developers to Own Solar Projects
Episode Summary
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Jim Howard, President at Dudley Ventures, and Derek Gabriel who is the COO & Head of Originations at SunRocket Capital…
SMP 166: Residential Solar Trends
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Nate Jovanelly, CEO of Sunraise Capital, and Jason Steinberg who is the CEO of Scanifly.
Scanifly, a software platform for PV design …
SMP 164 : Utility Scale Solar and Storage Development Discussion
Episode Summary
In this episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy speaks with Garrett Peterson who is the Co-Founder of Sigma Renewables. Sigma offers land and building owners multiple ways to mo…