The renewable energy market is booming — but most solar and storage assets are quietly underperforming, and nobody knows it. Alon Mashkovich, CEO and Co-Founder of enSights, is on a mission to change that. A 2026 BIG Innovation Award winner, enSights built an energy business management platform that gives asset owners real-time visibility, clean data, and actionable insights across their entire portfolio.

Alon shares how a decade of painful manual spreadsheet work led him to build what the industry was missing. Spoiler: over 70% of systems aren't meeting planned output. enSights is fixing that.

Chapters

• [00:00] Introduction & 2026 BIG Innovation Award
• [00:27] Alon's Background — From energy consultant to co-founder
• [01:21] The Market Analogy — Renewables today = cable TV in the 1970s
• [03:26] How enSights Was Born — Manual data pain that sparked the company
• [05:30] What the Platform Does — Portfolio monitoring & one-click reporting
• [08:11] The Shocking Discovery — 70%+ of systems underperforming silently
• [10:04] Building an Industry Data Advantage
• [11:35] AI + Renewables — Why clean data must come before AI
• [15:15] The Solar-to-Storage Shift — Storage as the dominant growth engine
• [17:33] The Energy War — Data centers, EVs, and the grid under strain
• [21:00] Advice to Operators — Own your data. Trust your data.
• [22:03] What's Next for enSights

Key Takeaways

• 70%+ of renewable systems aren't meeting planned output — most owners don't know where losses are coming from
• Clean data must come before AI — enSights prioritizes data quality above all else
• Average company spends 2 weeks generating reports that are already outdated by delivery
• Storage is the next massive wave in the industry
• Asset owners who don't control their own data are locked into someone else's decisions

Links

• 🌐 enSights: ensights.ai
• 🎙️ The Winners' Circle: bintelligence.com/podcast
• 🏆 BIG Innovation Awards: bintelligence.com

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