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Soliverse | The Future of Solar

Soliverse | The Future of Solar

Author: Peter Pongracz

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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.

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Send us Fan Mail Alexander Olesen says most solar and storage assets get valued at zero when they reach end of life, and that one guess quietly raises the cost of the whole energy transition. Alexander is the founder and CEO of Buckstop. Before this he spent ten years building Babylon Microfarms, a vertical farming company in Richmond, Virginia, manufacturing automated hydroponic farms and shipping them around the world. That hardware business is where he ran into the problem Buckstop n...
Send us Fan Mail Even Kvelland says the cheapest project a developer will ever work on is the one they kill in week one. Even co-founded Glint Solar in Oslo in 2020. The software helps developers screen sites and pre-design projects before they spend real money on them. He didn't come up through engineering. His background is diplomacy, business intelligence and consulting, and in this episode he tells host Peter Pongracz what he saw when he first looked at how developers choose where to buil...
Send us Fan Mail Twenty years of owner's engineering taught Orçun Başlak that a solar report is only as honest as the person who filled it in. Orçun Başlak, co-founder of PVX.AI, has spent two decades between Turkish utility-scale development, owner's engineering and solar design software. In this episode he walks host Peter Pongracz through the parts of project development that rarely make a pitch deck: how grading actually gets decided, what satellite data can tell you about the ground befo...
Send us Fan Mail Battery energy storage went from niche to critical infrastructure. Fluence's Julian Jansen on Europe's storage boom, Germany, and AI data centers. Julian Jansen has been in energy storage since 2014, back when most projects lasted 15 to 30 minutes and the industry was still trying to prove a battery could do the job at all. In this episode of Soliverse, he walks host Peter Pongracz through the turning points that took battery storage from a niche grid service to critical ene...
Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ In this episode, Peter Pongracz sits down with Even J. Kvelland, Co-Founder & CCO of @GlintSolar, live at Intersolar Europe 2026, fresh off parental leave and straight back into back-to-back customer meetings. They dig into what it actually takes to de-risk utility-scale solar siting, why the grid is the real bottleneck everywhere, and how Glint Solar is turning AI into a genuine competitive edge — not just a buzzword. 🔑 Key topics: 🗺️ GIS-based site screening and de...
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