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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Content Themes
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.
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 build: Google Maps, a hunch, and in some cases an old map, binoculars and a notepad.
Most of the conversation is about where project risk is hiding and how early you can still do something about it. Even describes a developer who was about to pay 5-10 to million dollars for a solar project, ran an intense due diligence process, and still missed a local ordinance that meant the project couldn't be permitted. He lays out the five or six things he'd settle before committing: grid capacity at the date you're likely to connect, hard exclusions, buildable land versus land that only looks good, yield and hurdle rates, site control, and regulation and community sentiment. And why you can't rely on the seller's report when you're buying.
They spend a good part of the episode on what isn't online. Even cites a recent US study of projects facing significant local opposition, where about 40% were cancelled, and explains how Glint lets developers show a town hall what a project will look like, hedgerows included. They also get into how Glint went from floating solar to data centers, why Claude Code sits inside their product team, and the advice he was given years ago: curiosity compounds, credentials don't.
Connect with
Even Kvelland LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evenkvelland/
Glint Solar, GlintAI and new Design Agent: https://www.glintsolar.com/
Glint Solar LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/glint-solar
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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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