Soliverse podcast

About Soliverse podcast

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.

Publisher

Peter Pongracz

Category

business · education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Feb 2025

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   $2,500 vs $198,000 per MW: Solar Decommissioning Bonds ft. Alexander Olesen | Soliverse Ep. 49

   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...

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   7 Oct 2026

   The Cheapest Project Is the One You Kill in Week One ft. Even Kvelland | Soliverse Ep. 48

   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...

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   A PVsyst Report Is Not True by Default ft. Orçun Başlak | Soliverse Ep. 47

   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...

Who has been a guest on Soliverse podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Gijsbert Huijink
• David Spieldenner
• Andreas Bach
• Daniel Domingues
• Joshua Feinberg

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

62

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0