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- Solar Maverick Podcast
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- Benoy Thanjan
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- audio
- Publication Date |
- May 25, 2021
- Episode Duration |
- 00:52:07
Episode Summary
It is our 100th episode of the podcast! We wanted to thank our listeners for their loyal support of the podcast. In the 100th episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy talks with Nathan Jovanelly who is the Director of Business Development at IGS Solar and regular contributor to the podcast. Nate speaks about a lot of interesting topics about how to lower residential solar customer acquisition costs, trends that he is seeing in storage and Electric Vehicles, and how solar policy should incent distributed solar.
Benoy Thanjan
Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy, as well as an advisor for several solar startup companies. Reneu Energy is a premier international solar energy consulting firm and developer, and the company focuses on developing commercial and industrial solar, as well as utility-scale solar plus storage projects. The company also sources financing for solar projects and hedges both energy and environmental commodities.
Benoy received his first experience in Finance as an intern at D.E. Shaw & Co., which is a global investment firm with 37 billion dollars in investment capital. Before founding Reneu Energy, he was the SREC Trader in the Project Finance Group for SolarCity, which merged with Tesla in 2016. He originated SREC trades with buyers and co-developed their SREC monetization and hedging strategy with the senior management of SolarCity, to move into the east coast markets. Benoy also worked at Vanguard Energy Partners, Ridgewood Renewable Power, and Deloitte & Touche.
Nathan Jovanelly
Nate is the Director of Business Development at IGS Solar. He helped form IGS Solar in 2014. IGS Solar is a sister company to IGS Energy, which is the largest privately held energy supplier in the United States with more than four million customers. After developing more than 30MW of solar for nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies, he moved on to start the Residential Solar Division at IGS in 2016. IGS now has a thriving residential business where they partner with turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) companies that use their third party ownership model to allow more than a thousand new residential customers make the switch to solar every month. He currently leads the development of the residential solar business along with other national and strategic partnerships for IGS Solar.
Stay Connected:
Benoy Thanjan
Email: info@reneuenergy.com
LinkedIn: Benoy Thanjan
Website: https://www.reneuenergy.com
Nathan Jovanelly
Website: https://www.igs.com/for-your-business/solar
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natejov/
Email: Nathan.Jovanelly@igs.com">Nathan.Jovanelly@igs.com
Nate’s other interviews on the Solar Maverick Podcast
SMP 74: Impact on COVID-19 on Residential Solar
SMP 58: Residential Solar Financing and Other Interesting Topics
SMP 20: The Solar Intrapreneur Story: How Nate helped IGS become one of the biggest solar asset owners in the US
Subscribe to our podcast + download each episode on iTunes,Podbean, and youtube.
This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry (www.podcastlaundry.com)
Episode Summary
It is our 100th episode of the podcast! We wanted to thank our listeners for their loyal support of the podcast. In the 100th episode of the Solar Maverick Podcast, Benoy talks with Nathan Jovanelly who is the Director of Business Development at IGS Solar and regular contributor to the podcast. Nate speaks about a lot of interesting topics about how to lower residential solar customer acquisition costs, trends that he is seeing in storage and Electric Vehicles, and how solar policy should incent distributed solar.
Benoy Thanjan
Benoy Thanjan is the Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy, as well as an advisor for several solar startup companies. Reneu Energy is a premier international solar energy consulting firm and developer, and the company focuses on developing commercial and industrial solar, as well as utility-scale solar plus storage projects. The company also sources financing for solar projects and hedges both energy and environmental commodities.
Benoy received his first experience in Finance as an intern at D.E. Shaw & Co., which is a global investment firm with 37 billion dollars in investment capital. Before founding Reneu Energy, he was the SREC Trader in the Project Finance Group for SolarCity, which merged with Tesla in 2016. He originated SREC trades with buyers and co-developed their SREC monetization and hedging strategy with the senior management of SolarCity, to move into the east coast markets. Benoy also worked at Vanguard Energy Partners, Ridgewood Renewable Power, and Deloitte & Touche.
Nathan Jovanelly
Nate is the Director of Business Development at IGS Solar. He helped form IGS Solar in 2014. IGS Solar is a sister company to IGS Energy, which is the largest privately held energy supplier in the United States with more than four million customers. After developing more than 30MW of solar for nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies, he moved on to start the Residential Solar Division at IGS in 2016. IGS now has a thriving residential business where they partner with turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) companies that use their third party ownership model to allow more than a thousand new residential customers make the switch to solar every month. He currently leads the development of the residential solar business along with other national and strategic partnerships for IGS Solar.
Stay Connected:
Benoy Thanjan
Email: info@reneuenergy.com
LinkedIn: Benoy Thanjan
Website: https://www.reneuenergy.com
Nathan Jovanelly
Website: https://www.igs.com/for-your-business/solar
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natejov/
Email: Nathan.Jovanelly@igs.com">Nathan.Jovanelly@igs.com
Nate’s other interviews on the Solar Maverick Podcast
SMP 74: Impact on COVID-19 on Residential Solar
SMP 58: Residential Solar Financing and Other Interesting Topics
SMP 20: The Solar Intrapreneur Story: How Nate helped IGS become one of the biggest solar asset owners in the US
Subscribe to our podcast + download each episode on iTunes,Podbean, and youtube.
This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry (www.podcastlaundry.com)
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