Soliverse podcast
Soliverse podcast
Podcast Description
At Soliverse, we’re on a mission to bring deep, thought-provoking conversations to the solar industry.
Hosted by Peter Pongracz, a seasoned expert in solar technology and software, Soliverse is more than just a podcast—it’s a platform for exploring the ideas, innovations, and challenges shaping the future of solar energy.
We sit down with industry pioneers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors to uncover the real stories behind the solar revolution.
From cutting-edge solar technologies and projects to policy shifts and investment trends.
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The podcast delves into themes such as solar technology innovations, project management, investment trends, and industry challenges. Episodes feature discussions on topics like cutting-edge drone applications in solar project management with guests from pioneering companies, and the simplifying of solar design through innovative software solutions to enhance solar adoption.
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.
🎙️ 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-risking projects across 30+ markets
🎨 Iterative layout & design tools for PV and BESS
🤝 Project management and external stakeholder communication (including AI renderings)
⚡ Grid data, redispatch, and curtailment across different European markets
🔀 The shift toward hybrid, co-located solar + storage projects
🤖 Embedding AI into developer workflows, not just using ChatGPT on the side
💡 Takeaways:
✅ Glint Solar's platform screens hundreds of critical data points per country — grid, environmental, zoning — to de-risk projects before a shovel hits the ground.
✅ Searching an entire German Bundesland for suitable land now takes minutes in Glint instead of months manually.
✅ AI-powered renderings are helping developers win over mayors and municipalities by visualizing projects before they're built.
✅ Grid data availability varies wildly by market — from open capacity data to a total black box — and Glint adapts its approach country by country.
✅ Recent funding is going straight into hiring across Europe and the US, and 2026 will bring more hybrid and co-location features.
🔗 Resources:
Glint Solar – Official Website – https://www.glintsolar.ai
Glint Solar on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/glint-solar
📲 Follow Soliverse and Peter for more insights and updates:
Peter on LinkedIn: https://itl.ink/soliverseLI
Soliverse X (Twitter): https://itl.ink/soliverseX
🎧 Listen on Buzzsprout: https://itl.ink/soliversebuzzprout
🎙️ New episodes release bi-weekly.
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Thank you for listening to Soliverse | The Future of Solar, the podcast for people building the future of solar, storage, and renewable infrastructure.
Each episode features grounded, unfiltered conversations with the people financing, developing, operating, and scaling real projects across the solar and clean energy ecosystem.
Soliverse exists to cut through noise, hype, and disconnected narratives and replace them with clarity, realism, and execution-focused insight for professionals who want to make smarter decisions, faster.
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🎙️ New episodes release bi-weekly.
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