Episodes of The smarter E Podcast

We speak with Philippe Macé about building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV)

We speak with Katharina Eickelberg about sustainability in the field of renewable energies

We speak with Dr. Stefan Reber and Dr. Johannes Eisenlohr about PV commercial and industrial installations

We speak with Christophe Lits about gobal developments in the solar market

We speak with Julian Schulz about tenant electricity

We speak with Felipe Narbona about hybrid power plants

We speak with Rana Adib about the latest trends in energy supply

We speak with Andreas Bett and Karl-Heinz Remmers about the future of the Germany Solar Industry

We speak with Alexander Neuhäuser about future technologies in the e-craft sector

We talk about this with the symposium's technical director, Dr. Korbinian Kramer from Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg.

About this area of tension but also what Agri-PV can bring to Germany, we spoke to Mark Kugel from „Obsthof Bernhard“.

We spoke to Christoph Strasser, CEO of MaxSolar GmbH, the company behind the project, to find out how sector coupling works.

We speak with Rolf Disch about plus-energy-houses and how they can contribute to climate protection and avoiding housing shortage and energy price crisis.

We speak with Jan Lozek about the role of start-ups for a decentralised energy supply with renewable energies.

We speak with Jan Figgener about the role of battery storage and about which developments can be expected.

We speak with Jenny Chase about the astonishing and at the same time controverse developments in the global solar market.

We speak with Prof. Dr. Jochen Kreusel and Dr. Philipp Strauß about the challenges and solutions for the electricity grid through renewable energies.

We speak with Bruce Douglas about global companies calling for the goal of tripling renewable energy capacity

How can utilities influence large-scale deployment of e-mobility? And what does a municipal approach to electric mobility look like?

With CSP we can achieve high temperatures of 150 - 1500 Celsius to drive power cycles or industrial processes such as cement production or green hydrogen. But how far along is CSP technology? Wes Stein will give us the answer to this and other questions.

Africa has a huge untapped solar potential. The integrated solar water desalination project at Lodwar Hospital in Kenya is a flagship project that contributes to several Sustainable Development Goals.

We talked to Frank Haugwitz, Senior Advisor at Apricum – The Cleantech Advisory about China's role in the global energy transition.

A nationwide installation of PV systems on parking lots in Germany could cover the electricity needs of more than 17.2 million households. We speak with Antonia Gordt and Jens Ritter about the advantages, technical requirements and economic viability.

2022 is the year that unleashed the global solar potential in a new way. To get a little bit in depth with some of the Global Market Outlook for Solar Power 2023-2027 studies outcomes, we talked with Michael Schmela, Executive Advisor to the CEO and a member of the leadership team of SolarPower Europe.

Green hydrogen could be used for local fertilizer production in Brazil. But also energy storage systems are becoming increasingly important. Markus Vlasits, CEO of NewCharge, gives us an overview of the short- and medium-term developments in Brazil.

We speak with Bertholt Breid about the shortage of skilled workers in the energy transition in Germany, about occupational, what opportunities there are in terms of training and continuing education and about the financing of those.

Dr. Rethabile Melamu, Chief Executive Officer at SAPVIA and Herbert Friese, General Manager of Dutch & Co. and Chair of the Workgroup for Solar Companies of the AGI

Markus Emmert, Chairman of the Bundesverband eMobilität and Prof. Dr. Michael Powalla, Member of the Board of the Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg ZSW.

Angélica Soto, CEO of Nexus Energía México and Rosanety Barrios, member of the Board of Directors of the National Solar Energy Association (ANES).