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Energy Gang

Watt It Takes: The Origin Story of Wunder Capital

Energy Gang

Wood Mackenzie

Tech News, Environment, Sustainability, Innovation, Renewable Energy, Technology, Alternative Energy, Energy, News, Cleantech, Wind Energy, Business, Climate Change, Solar Energy

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on Watt It Takes: Wunder Capital CEO Bryan Birsic on why he wants to solve the commercial solar financing challenge, when so many others couldn't.

"That is what a startup is to me. It's 50 or 100 people who can move a multi-billion-dollar industry in a way that an incumbent with thousands of people and multitudes of resources cannot," says Birsic.

Since its launch in 2014, Wunder has exploded onto the solar scene. In this edition of Watt It Takes, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch talks with Birsic about applying the lessons from fintech to cleantech.

Watt It Takes is a collaboration between Powerhouse and Greentech Media. The series is recorded in front of a live audience at Powerhouse headquarters in Oakland, California. Buy tickets for upcoming events.

This podcast is brought to you by GE's Reservoir, a modular lithium-ion energy storage system that can slash construction costs by 50 percent. Find out more about what Reservoir can do for your electric grid, solar plant, wind farm, microgrid, or thermal power plant.

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And finally a huge thank you to GE for sponsoring this podcast.

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You know GE is a big company, but they have a startup mentality when it comes to developing

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energy storage.

0:56.8

And they've got this new energy storage system called Reservoir.

1:00.4

GE's reservoir helps harness and store the power of solar so it's available even when the sun isn't shining and that's the power of power.

1:08.0

That's the power of being able to innovate inside a large company and act like a startup.

1:13.4

So you can get 15% extended battery life through using reservoir.

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And the battery storage system enables energy for when it's needed most, whether it's raining,

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hailing, sleeting or snowing,

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GE's reservoir helps keep the lights on.

1:27.0

So that's good for you, if you're a developer, it's good for you if you're a utility.

1:32.0

It's good for everybody, and it helps us get more renewable

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