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Every disconnected monitoring platform in your stack is a blind spot. And every blind spot is lost revenue. On this episode of The Clean Power Hour, host Tim Montague sits down with Hervé Billiet, CEO of Sunvoy and co-host of What Solar Installers Need to Know. 

Sunvoy is a solar fleet monitoring and customer management platform that pulls inverter data from multiple brands into a single dashboard so installers see their entire fleet in one place.

Tim and Hervé cover the shift from residential to commercial solar, the growing role of batteries and VPPs, and why fleet monitoring and O&M are no longer optional for installers who want to stay competitive in 2026.

Here's what you'll learn in this conversation about scaling a solar business and preparing for the C&I transition:

• Find out why solar systems produce less than promised, and how the industry's "no maintenance" sales pitch created a generation of neglected assets.
• Learn how consolidating inverter data from SMA, SolarEdge, and other platforms into one dashboard changes the way installers manage their fleet.
• Understand the "dead zone" between residential and commercial solar, where companies running both without dedicated teams risk breaking both pipelines.
• You'll hear why predictive AI in monitoring is premature for most residential installers, and why fixing offline inverters matters more right now than advanced models.
• Learn what a 3-year payback on C&I solar with batteries in Illinois signals about where the market is heading, and why Tim predicts VPPs will be active in 30 states within five years.

With residential solar declining and battery attachment rates rising, the installers who build dedicated teams and monitoring systems now will be the ones still operating in five years.

Connect with Hervé Billiet here. 

Sunvoy: https://sunvoy.com/

Hervé Billiet: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hervebilliet/

What Solar Installers Need to Know podcast: https://sunvoy.com/podcast

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