Funding the green home revolution

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

Credit, Fintech, Management, Lending, Banking, Business, Careers

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This is an unscientific guess, but I have to believe that the vast majority of us would prefer to get our power needs met by renewable sources in our own backyards - cleaner, yes, but also free from the price shocks that have become so common recently.

That said, heat pumps and solar panels are expensive and complicated - a daunting combination that holds many people back, myself included. That's where Cloover steps in. Born in Sweden but now finding a lot of traction in Germany, Cloover partner with renewable energy professionals to make sustainable home upgrades simple and affordable with flexible payment options.

Now, as you'll hear, this episode was originally recorded a year ago before an unplanned long break kept it dusty and on the shelves. And as you'll also hear, it wasn't alone in that fate. But Peder and I recorded a follow-up to bring the story up-to-date, and it's one that's rising to the fore in more and more markets.

You can find Peder on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/pederbroms/

You can find Cloover at https://cloover.co/ or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloover

You can seek me out on LinkedIn, too, where I'm open to all genuine new connections - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanlegrange - and follow the show's page while you're there.

Friends of the show include: https://www.ontap.co.za/pages/hoedspruit-store-details (for all your Hoedspruit-based bathroom needs), https://www.joinhumoni.com, and https://chaos-out-of-order.com/

Meanwhile, my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is discussed at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24

And since you like podcasts, I'm also co-create hAIghtened senses with Christo van Zyl, in which will look at the intersection between human senses and technology, especially AI-powered technology.

Keep well, Brendan

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0:28.3	beauty. Those people have bought solar now and there's about 80% of European households
0:37.0	left that haven't transitioned to renewable energy installations. And there's about 80% of European households left that haven't transitioned to renewable
0:40.0	energy installations. And for them, and financing is a very important part. So that's how we come in.
0:45.8	We help our installation partners first on the software tuning side, but then also kind of coupling
0:51.2	that with end customer financing.
1:03.6	Welcome back to How to Lend Money to Strangers with myself, Brendan LaGrange.
1:12.7	It has been some time since we last spoke, I think a full five months since I last said an episode was imminent, but let me explain what happened. I was hoping to get the season finished before I went on my summer holidays.
1:19.2	I spent a bit of time in Belfast, a fantastic place to go, went to Paris for the Olympics, an iconic
1:25.4	event, and then took some time with the kids in Slovenia.
1:29.2	I had hoped to get those episodes done first, to take that little break, and then to get back
1:34.1	into the swing of things. As it happened, I left about a half dozen episodes, recorded but
1:39.4	unproduced, took the holidays, and then never quite got back into the swing of things. I started a new job
1:46.2	teaching data analytics and data visualization at Holtz International Business School here in London.
1:52.3	The business I'm starting with Christopheun Sale and talk about more on heightened senses
1:56.6	started to get traction, so we had to do a lot more work to get that going.
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