Banking on Solar

Banking on Solar

Solar and storage developers, investors, and lenders risk losing projects when they bog down during financing. Banking on Solar is the podcast community where energy transition project financing stakeholders share lessons learned so that more projects get built. https://www.bankingonsolar.media Credit to https://www.FesliyanStudios.com for the background music

Episodes

June 18, 2024 39 mins

Welcome to Banking on Solar. On Today’s episode: My chat with Iain Ward, Founder & CEO of Solar Agricultural Services, Inc. (SolAg)

In addition to owning his own 1st generation cranberry and livestock farm for 15 years, Iain Ward has helped farmers with planning, conservation, and diversification across the United States and Canada with two decades of experience working with farmers as a USDA-NRCS Technical Service Provider spe...

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Welcome to Banking on Solar. On Today’s episode: My chat with Sana Jameel, Vice President of Account Management at Ampion.

Sana is the Vice President of Account Management at Ampion Renewable Energy, where she leads the account management team, the group most responsible for ensuring developers and asset owners maximize revenue for their community solar sites. In this conversation you'll hear Sana share the unique challenges of ma...

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Welcome to Banking on Solar. On Today’s episode: I'm answering a question that I hear more and more. People are curious about what podcasts will help them stay up to date and learn more about solar, project financing, and the energy transition. You’ll hear a breakdown of my favorite podcasts in solar and around the renewable energy industry.

You’ll find the full transcript and links to the video version of this podcast on the episo...

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Welcome to Banking on Solar. On Today’s episode: My chat with Beth Goldstein, Partner in Sherin and Lodgen LLP’s real estate department and chair of their Renewable Energy Practice Group. Beth has provided counsel to both lenders and developers and brings a decade of experience in the renewable space. You’ll hear wisdom from that learned experience come out in the conversation today including how incentives differ on different side...

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Welcome to Banking on Solar. On Today’s episode: My chat with Russell Cramer, Vice President of Solar Financing at 1st Source Bank. 1st Source is a regional bank headquartered in South Bend Indiana that has made a name for itself in the Midwest and Northeast with innovative 3-part financing for low megawatt solar projects. Russ joined 1st Source shortly after the bank made its first solar project loan. Fast forward six years to tod...

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Welcome to Banking on Solar. On Today’s episode: Solar industry vet, Adam Shor, shares how the timing of building relationships can make or break solar projects. 

You’ll learn how his varied background across multiple stakeholders in the solar industry gave him is superpower as a people connector and relationship builder. Adam shares lessons learned as a consultant engineering an appropriate capital stack and helping developers, i...

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March 18, 2023 3 mins

Banking on Solar host, Bart Frischknecht, shares the purpose and intended audience for the podcast. Solar developers, investors, and lenders risk losing projects when they bog down during financing. Banking on Solar is the podcast community where energy transition project financing stakeholders share lessons learned so that more projects get built.

Credit to https://www.FesliyanStudios.com for the background music

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