Today we are talking to Chuck Provini, President and CEO of Natcore Technology. Natcore was featured in Solar Power World’s inaugural issue in October 2011 for its breakthrough technology of creating solar cells without silicon. Now they’re back to talk about their latest breakthrough: black solar cells.

In this podcast, we talk to Yann Brandt, president of a solar consulting group called Braya Solar Group.

We talk to Karen Parrish, vice president of IBM Industry Solutions & Smarter Cities, to discuss her company’s role in helping New York become a global leader in urban solar energy market analysis and sustainability through an innovative agreement with CUNY Ventures, a City University of New York (CUNY) Economic Development Corp. entity.

We talk to Karen Parrish, vice president of IBM Industry Solutions & Smarter Cities, to discuss her company’s role in helping New York become a global leader in urban solar energy market analysis and sustainability through an innovative agreement with CUNY Ventures, a City University of New York (CUNY) Economic Development Corp. entity.

We talk to Tyree Solomon-Philips, chief analyst for Delta Market Research, about their research about the industry’s efforts to educate consumers about the advantages of solar energy.

In this edition, we interview Assurant Solar’s David Schroeder, VP of Operations and Industry Relations.

We speak with Kyle Cobb, Co-Founder and CFO of Greenbotics, a Davis, California, company that offers a solar panel cleaning service for utility-scale power plants. Its cleaning service is centered around its highly automated, robotic cleaning vehicles.

We’re excited to bring you an interview with the proprietor of one of our favorite clean energy blogs, CleanTechnica. Zach Shahan is director/editor of CleanTechnica, and you can also read his work at PlanetSave, where he is also the director/editor.

In this episode, we talk to Mark Cerasuolo, senior marketing manager at OutBack Power, about the exciting grid-connected and off-grid solar solutions in the United States and around the world.