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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 consolidatesSoliverse 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.

What Happens When Energy Policy Ignores Storage ft. Dr. Radovan Kopecek | Soliverse Ep. 37

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2549232/fan_mail/new] What happens when energy policy plans the future grid, but leaves storage out of the equation? In this episode of Soliverse | The Future of Solar, host Peter Pongracz sits down with Dr Radovan Kopecek, Co-Founder and Director at ISC Konstanz, to unpack why the next phase of solar depends on battery storage, local manufacturing, and clearer industrial strategy across Europe, the US, India, and China. Dr Kopecek shares a sharp global view on solar manufacturing, hybrid projects, battery economics, European industrial policy, cybersecurity, and why space may become one of the most unexpected frontiers for crystalline silicon. This is a grounded, wide-ranging conversation for anyone working in utility scale solar, energy storage, renewable manufacturing, or the future of the grid. About the guest Dr Radovan Kopecek is Co-Founder and Director at ISC Konstanz, the International Solar Energy Research Center Konstanz. His work spans high-efficiency solar cell technology, PV manufacturing strategy, battery-adjacent energy systems thinking, training, and emerging solar applications including space. Guest links ISC Konstanz [https://www.isc-konstanz.de/] ISC Konstanz, solar cells for satellites [https://isc-konstanz.de/en/solar-cells-for-satellites-research-development-at-isc-konstanz/] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/radovan-kopecek-617a8721/] TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@rado1366] PV Trainings [https://www.pv-trainings.com/about/] Important PV events [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/radovan-kopecek-617a8721_february-march-april-activity-7414593949715292160-NUOw/] Referenced organizations and events ESA, European Space Agency [https://www.esa.int/] DLR, German Aerospace Center [https://www.dlr.de/] IEEE PVSC [https://ieee-pvsc.org/] IEEE PVSC, Area 12 Industry Perspective [https://ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC54/program-areas.php] EU PVSEC [https://www.eupvsec.org/] EU PVSEC Programme, Industry Summit [https://www.eupvsec.org/index.php/programme/programme] Asian PVSEC [https://www.pvsec-asia.org/] Gigawatt PV Tech Conference [https://isc-konstanz.de/en/gwpvtech-2025-workshop-en/] Taiyang News [https://taiyangnews.info/] RCT Solutions [https://www.rct-solutions.com/] Premier Energies [https://www.premierenergies.com/] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2549232/support] 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. 📌 Explore more from Soliverse [https://itl.ink/SoliverseEps] Explore our partners: PVX.AI [https://itl.ink/pvxdotai], utility-scale solar design software 📲 Follow Soliverse and Peter for more insights and updates: Peter on LinkedIn [https://itl.ink/soliverseLI] Soliverse Instagram [https://itl.ink/soliverseIG] Soliverse X (Twitter) [https://itl.ink/soliverseX] Subscribe on YouTube [https://itl.ink/soliverseYTSub] 🎙️ New episodes release bi-weekly. Produced by APodcastGeek [https://itl.ink/APodcastGeek]

8 de abr de 2026 - 1 h 5 min