Feb 2024
Leading the charge in commercial solar | Steve Raeder, CEO of Summit Ridge Energy
<p>In this week's episode, Gil Jenkins sits down with Steve Raeder, the founder and CEO of Summit Ridge Energy. As a leading player in the community solar market, Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) has made significant strides since its inception in 2017, deploying over $1.6 billion into ... Show More
26m 36s
Aug 2021
Electrifying Sierra Leone
Bringing electricity to his village for the first time, we speak with Jeremiah Thoronka in Sierra Leone about the challenges of energy inequality in the country. As a teenager, using kinetic energy, Jeremiah changed the lives of hundreds of people – we speak to them to talk about ... Show More
17m 28s
Feb 2023
Getting into business: Start-up capital in Africa
The amount of accessible funding for start-ups in Africa is growing fast, but lots of it goes to the more developed economies of South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya. We speak to business owners in Nigeria and Uganda and compare their experiences of getting into business. Nnamd ... Show More
18m 43s
He's not on a mission to make money, quite the opposite. Xavier Helgesen is a mission driven founder, who uses money to do more good in the world. His first company, Better World Books sells 10 million used books a year that's collected by leftover books at libraries - in and shares revenues with literacy partners (Over $25M given to non-profits). This busin ... Show More
<p>Last year, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebeckhamsm">Mike Beckham</a> donated 1 million dollars. </p><p>This year, he's setting his sights even higher.</p><p>He wants to give away 50% of his annual income. And that's not all—his company, <a href="https://www.simplemo ... Show More
<p>Dan Shugar lives, breathes and bleeds solar. </p><p>"If you cut my wrist, pure silicon comes out," he exclaimed in an interview with Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch, as part of the <a href="https://wattittakesdec2017.splashthat.com/" target="_blank">Watt It Takes intervi ... Show More
