Peter Pongracz
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Solar’s future, from grid to jobsite.
Soliverse is a technical solar industry show focused on the machinery behind renewable energy growth. Its conversations stay close to project development, PV design, construction automation, storage planning, and the operational choices that turn energy transition talk into built infrastructure.
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Soliverse covers solar from the inside of the project machine. Its focus is not simply clean energy enthusiasm, but the specific systems that make renewable infrastructure possible. Episodes return to the work of designing PV plants, managing construction, planning storage, modeling yield, and deciding which technologies can survive real deployment pressure. The show’s conversations are detailed without becoming academic. They sound like industry people comparing notes on what is changing, what is still inefficient, and what must be connected before projects can scale. In the TerraBase Energy conversation, Matt Campbell frames solar construction as a field still shaped by old manual processes. That episode moves into AI-driven robotics, automated module handling, construction management software, yield simulation, and the strategic tradeoff between best-in-class tools and integrated platforms. It gives the show one of its clearest themes: solar growth depends as much on workflow design as on panels themselves. The conversation with Dr. Radovan Kopecek widens the lens to policy, grids, and storage. It argues that solar planning becomes incomplete when batteries are ignored, especially in systems that need reliability through winter. Batteries, hydrogen, long-duration storage, wind, and solar appear as parts of one future energy architecture rather than separate talking points. The show also tracks technical frontiers. Discussions touch solid-state batteries, sodium batteries, PV production training, and solar cells in space conditions. The Orçun Başlak episode brings the same approach to PV design software. It connects Solaryon, PVX, and Turkey’s ramp-up in solar installations to the practical need for simpler, data-driven design tools. Across the catalog, Soliverse favors operators, builders, engineers, and specialists over broad punditry. Its strength is the granular middle ground between policy headlines and site-level execution. The pacing is conversational, but the subject matter stays serious. Guests are given room to explain how markets, tools, storage, and construction methods interact. For listeners trying to understand where solar is headed, Soliverse makes the future feel less abstract and more like a set of engineering, software, and planning decisions already underway.
Made for: Soliverse is for solar developers, renewable energy professionals, engineers, investors, operators, and technically curious listeners who want more than policy headlines. It best suits people interested in how projects are actually modeled, built, automated, and supported by storage.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by connecting high-level energy transition questions to construction workflows, PV software, storage assumptions, and grid reliability. It treats solar as an operational system, with attention to the tools and decisions behind deployment.
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...
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A German planning calculation becomes a case for treating storage as core solar infrastructure.
Solar's next constraint, as this Soliverse discussion frames it, is less about making power than planning honestly for where that power goes. The guest, a physicist and co-founder of ISC Constance, challenges a German Ministry of Economy calculation that he says left batteries…
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Mobility technology, tested against reality.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Orçun Başlak, founder of the PVX solar design software, tells Peter that "we have to keep the grid alive" and that solar with batteries is "like 50% of the solution." He describes PVX's three grading methods and a client who asked for the least cut and fill even if the surface was not buildable.
Matt Campbell, CEO and co-founder of TerraBase Energy, says solar construction remains largely manual after 20 years while TerraBase builds an integrated AI, software, and robotics platform.
In this episode of Soliverse, host Peter Pongratz revisits physicist Dr.
Soliverse's May recap features Mohit Kohl on renewable-energy M&A data, Jordan Koch on converting drone scans into 3D meshes, and Carla Cohen on cloud-based solar-project design.
Jordan, CEO of Solidclouds, explains how drone photogrammetry and LiDAR convert solar sites into application-ready 3D models.
Mohit Kaul describes Anodatics, founded in 2021, as a market-intelligence platform for renewable-energy data, analytics, and M&A.
This episode features an interview with Orçun Başlak discussing his journey in solar project development, the creation of pvX software, and insights into solar market trends and scaling companies.