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SunCast

Nico Johnson takes you into conversations with those at the forefront of Renewable Energy.

SunCast gives an inside look into what is happening in renewable energy. From conversations with the biggest Solar Panel manufacturers in the world to the small startups creating the future of renewable energy, such as carbon capture and battery technology breakthroughs.

SunCast is dedicated to providing the knowledge, research, tools and expert guidance you need to understand, grow and be ahead of the curve in the fastest-growing markets in the world.

Featuring over 800 conversations, Nico has interviewed people from Tesla, SolarCity, Trina Solar, Meyer Burger, Conergy, SunEdison, Energy Vault and even the US Government... to name a few. Covering topics such as Solar Power, Wind Energy, Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Carbon Capture, Finance, Hydrogen, and more.

You can watch SunCast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SunCastMedia

...or view the full archive of SunCast episodes here: https://www.suncast.media/media/podcast

Natural Sciences How To Technology Science Education
Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
48 minutes
Episodes
865
Years Active
2015 - 2025
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543: Sunnova CEO John Berger, On Enron, Innovation And The Future Of Solar

543: Sunnova CEO John Berger, On Enron, Innovation And The Future Of Solar

John Berger is a renewable energy veteran deep in the heart of “Energy” country, as we discussed back in Episode 465. And he’s built more than one successful renewable energy company, but mo…

01:10:31  |   Wed 23 Nov 2022
542: How to double solar customer value through follow-on sales, an all-star panel shares their secrets!

542: How to double solar customer value through follow-on sales, an all-star panel shares their secrets!

Today's special edition podcast offers practical, tactical advice on getting the most from your customer relationships. Through an all-star panel discussion led by Bodhi CEO Scott Nguyen, yo…

00:39:41  |   Mon 21 Nov 2022
541: Why Falling in Love With Failure Matters So Much, with Piper Wilder, 60Hertz Energy

541: Why Falling in Love With Failure Matters So Much, with Piper Wilder, 60Hertz Energy

Piper Foster Wilder is the co-founder and CEO of 60Hertz Energy, the first maintenance software purpose-built for distributed energy resources (DER). DERs are physical and virtual assets dep…

01:34:56  |   Thu 17 Nov 2022
540: The IRA Solves One Problem, But Creates Another, with Andy Redinger of KeyBanc Capital Markets

540: The IRA Solves One Problem, But Creates Another, with Andy Redinger of KeyBanc Capital Markets

In today's Tactical Tuesday, we talk with Andy Redinger, head of the Utilities, Power & Renewable Energy Group at KeyBanc Capital Markets (KBCM).  

KBCM is Cleveland-based KeyCorp's corporate…

00:22:02  |   Tue 15 Nov 2022
539: Democratizing Energy for Everyone, One Smart Solar Battery at Time, with Electriq’s Aric Saunders

539: Democratizing Energy for Everyone, One Smart Solar Battery at Time, with Electriq’s Aric Saunders

Hawaii native Aric Saunders is a clean energy champion well versed in reaching low to moderate-income communities, creating innovative products, and integrating storage into the grid. Aric i…

00:53:33  |   Thu 10 Nov 2022
538: How Sungrow Keeps Its Global Edge in Inverters

538: How Sungrow Keeps Its Global Edge in Inverters

Perhaps you’ve noticed, but over the past year, I've built a strong friendship with the folks at Sungrow, the leading global inverter solution supplier for renewables. SunCast is presented b…

00:24:17  |   Tue 08 Nov 2022
537: 'People Are The Heart Of Renewable Energy Project Development', With Industry Veteran CEO Kimberlee Centera, TerraPro

537: 'People Are The Heart Of Renewable Energy Project Development', With Industry Veteran CEO Kimberlee Centera, TerraPro

Kimberlee Centera is one of the few female CEOs of a privately held, privately funded utility-scale renewable energy consulting practice. As the founder and CEO of San Diego-based TerraPro S…

01:19:05  |   Thu 03 Nov 2022
536: 10 Millionth Solar Design, $200 Million Series D, How Aurora Empowers the Solar Industry With Mission-Critical Digital Tools, with Co-founders Chris Hopper & Sam Adeyemo

536: 10 Millionth Solar Design, $200 Million Series D, How Aurora Empowers the Solar Industry With Mission-Critical Digital Tools, with Co-founders Chris Hopper & Sam Adeyemo

Stanford Business School grads Chris Hopper and Sam Adeyemo founded Aurora Solar in 2012 with a mission to reduce solar design costs. They created software that quickly and accurately design…

00:29:46  |   Tue 01 Nov 2022
535: Turning Entire Neighborhoods Into Better Power Plants, w/Geoff Ferrell of sonnen

535: Turning Entire Neighborhoods Into Better Power Plants, w/Geoff Ferrell of sonnen

Geoff Ferrell is vice president of virtual power plants (VPP) and commercial and industrial (C&I) project business at sonnen, a German-based global energy storage provider fully owned by Roy…

01:27:13  |   Thu 27 Oct 2022
534: How Better Battery-Based Energy Storage Will Save Power Grids, w/ Fluence’s Head of Growth, Kiran Kumaraswamy

534: How Better Battery-Based Energy Storage Will Save Power Grids, w/ Fluence’s Head of Growth, Kiran Kumaraswamy

Kiran Kumaraswamy is a high-caliber energy storage executive focused on the commercialization of technology — specifically, architecting the techno-economic analysis and justification of dep…

00:44:49  |   Tue 25 Oct 2022
533: What You Need To Know About Mainspring Energy's Low-Emission, Fuel Flexible Generator, with CEO, Shannon Miller

533: What You Need To Know About Mainspring Energy's Low-Emission, Fuel Flexible Generator, with CEO, Shannon Miller

Shannon Miller is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Mainspring Energy — a Menlo Park, California company that sees itself as part of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon gri…

01:13:09  |   Thu 20 Oct 2022
532: AES’s innovation culture, 24/7 carbon free energy, Agrivoltiacs and more with Woody Rubin, Chief Development Officer

532: AES’s innovation culture, 24/7 carbon free energy, Agrivoltiacs and more with Woody Rubin, Chief Development Officer

The AES Corporation has dominated almost every category it's ever embraced, and clean energy is no exception. In today's Tactical Tuesday, you'll learn how the Arlington, Virginia-based glob…

00:28:57  |   Tue 18 Oct 2022
531: 8 Amazing Cleantech Podcasters Offer Insights on Industry Trends (Quarterly Podcasters Roundtable)

531: 8 Amazing Cleantech Podcasters Offer Insights on Industry Trends (Quarterly Podcasters Roundtable)

Six leading clean energy advocates join me and my friend Mike Casey on Episode 6 of our quarterly Cleantech Podcaster’s Roundtable. 

The rich, one-hour discussion about energy trends, develop…

00:54:32  |   Fri 14 Oct 2022
530: Today Is The Most Important Thing — Not Tomorrow; Nobel Chang on Building with Purpose

530: Today Is The Most Important Thing — Not Tomorrow; Nobel Chang on Building with Purpose

I like to believe that SunCast opens the door for both you and our guests to be vulnerable with the stories that drive us forward. Today’s episode is one of the more vulnerable and impactful…

01:16:09  |   Thu 13 Oct 2022
529: How Clean Power Research Is Driving Energy Transformation

529: How Clean Power Research Is Driving Energy Transformation

Jeff Ressler explained how he learned to leverage data and software to improve customers' lives in SunCast Episode 221. He returns for today's Tactical Tuesday to tell us how his company's c…

00:27:02  |   Tue 11 Oct 2022
528: EDPR’s Sandhya Ganapathy on becoming #RebelsForChange

528: EDPR’s Sandhya Ganapathy on becoming #RebelsForChange

It's no surprise that Sandhya Ganapathy describes herself as a passionate proponent of clean energy. Sandhya is the CEO of EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) and a member of the Manageme…

01:02:28  |   Thu 06 Oct 2022
527: Rnd 5 American Made Challenge Winners Announced! Live from RE+ Media Zone

527: Rnd 5 American Made Challenge Winners Announced! Live from RE+ Media Zone

The American-Made program is your fast track to the clean energy revolution. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, it incentivizes innovation through prizes, training, teaming, and mentor…

00:19:38  |   Wed 05 Oct 2022
526: SMA on the Future of Home, Nhan Pimentel & Jan Van Laethem, Live from RE+ PowerUp Media Zone

526: SMA on the Future of Home, Nhan Pimentel & Jan Van Laethem, Live from RE+ PowerUp Media Zone

SMA has been a cornerstone of renewables for nearly four decades. While their counterparts, like Tesla, didn’t have solar divisions until much more recently, SMA has gradually built one of t…

00:27:19  |   Tue 04 Oct 2022
525: Andrew Chester & the rest of the Greenskies story, Plus How to Grow Companies, Negotiate Strategically & Raise Millions

525: Andrew Chester & the rest of the Greenskies story, Plus How to Grow Companies, Negotiate Strategically & Raise Millions

Many of you have heard one of my close friends & repeat podcast guest, Mike Silvestrini, on how he “and his team” grew Greenskies to be the largest C&I Player in the US (then successfully so…

01:08:43  |   Thu 29 Sep 2022
524: How solar got below $20/mwh and why we’re moving too slow! w/Dr. Gregory Nemet

524: How solar got below $20/mwh and why we’re moving too slow! w/Dr. Gregory Nemet

Today’s guest is a veritable expert on solar and climate change, and has recently served as a lead author for the IPCC’s 6th assessment report. He made his name a few years ago in the energy…

00:31:14  |   Tue 27 Sep 2022
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