In this episode, co-hosts Thomas Obermeier and Nick Van Hollen sit down with Kiran Bhatraju, founder and CEO of Arcadia, a tech company whose platform enables users to access cleaner and more affordable electricity through products like community solar and offers valuable data and payment capabilities for energy service providers.
They discuss the benefits of community solar and why the Department of Energy’s goal of expanding community solar to 5 million households by 2025 is setting the bar too low. They also explore what makes Arcadia’s platform unique and why data is currency in a world with more distributed energy resources, drawing similarities between Arcadia’s evolving business model and the data services responsible for innovation in the fintech industry at companies like Stripe and PayPal.
