It’s uncertain times in solar and storage. How can we use smarter grid optimisation to give developers some assurance? | Recorded live at SESS 2025
Interchange Recharged
Wood Mackenzie
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Over the past couple of years unprecedented low prices for solar panels have spurred incredible growth. But there’s a big shift underway.
In this special episode of the show, recorded live from the stage at Wood Mackenzie’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit 2025, host Sylvia Leyva Martinez, Principal Analyst at Wood Mackenzie, sits down with Ben Sigrin, Senior Product Manager at GridBeyond, to make sense of the turbulent market.
With nearly 44 gigawatts of new solar expected this year, developers are under pressure to make faster, smarter decisions. GridBeyond helps solar and storage players optimise in real time, turning market volatility into opportunity. How do they do it? Are there other ways for off takers to get some certainty? Smart site selection is one of them, but what informs those decisions? Plus, hear the lessons from global solar markets that developers are bringing to the US.
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| 0:00.0 | We are a technology, we are not a fuel. |
| 0:03.0 | They're not going to be burning coal on Mars. |
| 0:05.0 | It's going to be us providing power on Mars. |
| 0:07.0 | We are part of the long tale of history here. |
| 0:09.0 | What happens when you combine rising demand, affordable solar, and smarter data? |
| 0:15.0 | You get a new kind of energy system. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Sylvia Leva Martinez, principal analyst for solar Iwood McKenzie, and this is Interchange Recharge, coming to you live from the stage at the Solar and Energy Storage Summit |
| 0:31.1 | here in Denver. |
| 0:32.5 | We're really excited to be recording the first live episode of the interchange in this event. |
| 0:37.2 | Today, we're exploring how to optimize solar and storage in real-time with help from AI-powered |
| 0:42.6 | insights. |
| 0:45.6 | Great Beyond is redefining the future of energy. |
| 0:49.1 | Through cutting-edge AI and automation, they help businesses and asset owners optimize energy use, access |
| 0:55.5 | new revenue, and accelerate their journey to net zero. |
| 0:59.4 | From demand-side response to energy trading, Grid Beyond connects every asset to every opportunity. |
| 1:05.7 | Smarter energy, greater impact, that's Grid Beyond. |
| 1:09.1 | Find out more at Grid Beyond.com. |
| 1:13.6 | So I'm thrilled to be joined by Ben Zegren. He's a senior product manager at Grid Beyond. |
| 1:21.6 | And we will have a discussion about how we can implement different solutions, leveraging AI to navigate all this uncertainty |
| 1:30.3 | and find a way to have more renewables and in general more resources on the ground. |
| 1:35.3 | So Ben, welcome to SES and welcome to the interchange. |
| 1:39.3 | Thank you, Sylvia. It's great to be here. Good to see you again. |
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