Solar

Solar energy sits at the center of the clean energy transition, which is why it keeps coming up on The Grove. From utility-scale installations to rooftop systems to the software that makes sense of it all, solar touches nearly every part of the climate-tech stack. The conversations on this show reflect that breadth.

The throughline across solar episodes is not the technology itself, which most people already understand in broad strokes. It is the messy, human, organizational work of deploying that technology at scale. Episodes in this vertical tend to surface the friction points: outdated operational tools, data blind spots, market structures that were built for a different era, and the founders trying to fix those problems from the inside.

Take the conversation with Alon Mashkovich of enSights, which exposes something easy to overlook. The energy industry, including solar, still runs on spreadsheets for a surprising amount of its core decision-making. That gap between the sophistication of the hardware and the primitiveness of the software is where a lot of the real opportunity lives right now.

If you found this page while researching solar as a market, a career, or an investment area, the episodes collected here will give you more than a surface-level overview. They offer direct access to the thinking of founders and operators who are working on specific, concrete problems within the solar industry today.