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Hosted by Hervé Billiet and Joe Marhamati · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 50 episodes
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What Solar Installers Need To Know is a podcast for solar leaders who are building something big. If you’re a founder, executive, or manager running a $10–$100M solar installation company with a team of 50–250 people, this show is for you.We dive into the real challenges around project management, marketing, operations, financing, and scaling your business—without the fluff. The higher you climb, the harder it is to find others who really get what you’re going through. That’s why each episode features honest conversations with people who’ve been there—sharing what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what they’re still figuring out.No hype. Just practical insights for solar pros who want to keep growing.
Hervé Billiet and Joe Marhamati hosts What Solar Installers Need To Know (by Sunvoy), a business show with 50 episodes published.
Josh Goldberg has built three different solar companies, and each one taught him something the industry is still wrestling with today. In this episode, Hervé sits down with the founder of Astrum Solar, co-founder of Sunl
Barry Cinnamon has been through just about every solar cycle the industry has seen. In this episode, Hervé sits down with the founder of Akeena Solar to unpack what 25 years in solar has taught him, from building a publi
Most commercial solar conversations focus on panels. This one focuses on capital. In this episode, Hervé sits down with Luk Verdonck, VP of Commercial at BluePath Finance, to unpack what actually gets commercial and comm
Most solar ads look the same... cheap panels, big discounts, and “free solar” hooks that make serious homeowners roll their eyes. In this episode, Joe sits down with Jude Cornish from Solar on Steroids to talk about a be
Customer acquisition in solar is still way too expensive and Scott Rosenberg thinks data can fix a big chunk of it. In this episode, Joe sits down with the co-founder and CEO of 257 to talk about Pink, their AI-powered p
Shift Energy Group is trying to do something hard: grow across Canada without losing the local trust that makes solar work. In this episode, Hervé talks with Rich Lindquist and Chris Palliser about how Shift scaled from
John Sheldon has seen solar from just about every angle (from selling $8-per-watt systems in the early days to helping scale some of the industry's biggest customer acquisition engines). In this episode, he shares lesson
Interconnection is one of those things most solar companies don’t think about...until it becomes the thing slowing down the entire business. In this episode, Hervé sits down with Vaughan Woodruff to unpack the messy real
Most solar companies hit a ceiling and never break through. Geoff Mirkin did, building Solar Energy World into a $100M business and taking it all the way to a successful exit. In this episode, he gets real about what act
What does it actually look like to build a solar company with purpose, and not lose your edge? In this episode, Joe Marhamati sits down with Maria Kingery (360Impact, Southern Energy Management) to unpack the real journe
From racing solar cars to running a renewable energy conglomerate, Ismaël Ben-Al-Lal has seen every phase of this industry up close. In this episode, he calls out what’s changed (and what hasn’t): how customers actually
Andy McCarthy went from building a solar company in his garage to successfully exiting and he shares the real story behind that journey. In this episode, he breaks down the Australian solar market, the policy headwinds i
Nathan Charles from Enphase joins Hervé to unpack the next phase of solar: where hardware innovation, software intelligence, and system integration converge. They discuss how customer feedback is directly shaping product
Selling your solar company isn’t just about the numbers, and Lisa Hedrick makes that clear fast. In this episode, Hervé sits down with the M&A attorney to break down what actually drives a deal: seller motivations, marke
Reeves Clippard from A&R Solar joins Hervé to talk about what it really takes to play the long game in solar. They get into strategy, shifting policies, and why companies that think beyond installs—into storage, microgri
Solar isn’t just hardware anymore...it’s software, data, and intelligence layered on top. In this episode, Hervé talks with Jayant Somani from Enphase about how digital tools are reshaping the installer workflow from sal
Distributors don’t just move boxes, they shape markets. In this episode, Hervé sits down with Hamza Arshad from Greentech to talk about what’s really happening at the distribution level: product selection, installer feed
Marketing in solar isn’t what it was five years ago, and Brad Forbush has lived that shift firsthand. In this episode, Hervé sits down with the founder of Growth Pros (and former Shine Solar leader) to talk about how mar
If your financing model is weak, your solar business is weak, period. In this episode, Hervé Billiet sits down with Mike Gilroy, CEO of Sungage Financial, to break down how financing has evolved, why de-risking deals is
In this episode, Hervé Billiet sits down with James Showalter to unpack what’s really changing under the hood of solar and battery technology. They get into the messy reality of product development, why domestic content
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