Renewable Energy

Renewable is a deep-dive podcast hosted by Alex and Jordan, exploring renewable energy, sustainability, and the systems shaping the global energy transition. Each episode breaks down current topics, industry articles, and real-world developments through informed discussion and practical insight. Drawing on the professional experience of solar practitioner Alexis Lewis, the show connects technical knowledge with broader conversations about policy, infrastructure, and the future of clean energy.

Renewable Energy is a science podcast hosted by Alex and Jordan, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Alex and Jordan hosts Renewable Energy, a science show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #11

  From Car Batteries to Commercial Solar: Building Off-Grid Power Knowledge Before It Was Popular

  Feb 17, 202616 minS1

  <p>Before solar became an industry, before grid-tied systems, incentives, or sleek lithium batteries, power resilience meant figuring things out yourself.</p> <p>This episode traces the real origins of Alexis Lewis’s solar and electrical expertise, starting not in New York City, but in Antigua, where frequent power outages made energy independence a necessity not a trend.</p> <p>In the early 1970s, when Alexis’s father built their family home, it was designed with two electrical systems:</p> <p>A standard AC utility-fed network</p> <p>A separate DC backup network, powered initially by car batteries</p> <p>This...

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  Episode #10

  What Constitutes Real Experience? Construction, Exposure, and the Path to Solar Competence

  Feb 17, 202618 minS1

  <p>Experience is often reduced to job titles, certifications, or years on a résumé. But in the real world especially in construction and solar experience is something very different.</p> <p>In this episode, Alexis Lewis, founder of Wadadli Solar LLC, breaks down what real experience actually looks like and how it is built long before someone ever installs their first solar module.</p> <p>Alexis shares how growing up in a construction family shaped his understanding of how things are designed, assembled, and maintained. With a father working in the construction trades even before he was born, and ed...

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  Episode #9

  When Solar Spreadsheets Hide Roof Reality

  Feb 17, 202616 minS1

  <p>Most solar projects don’t fail on paper. They fail on the roof.</p> <p>In this episode, Alexis Lewis breaks down one of the most common and most expensive disconnects in commercial solar: the gap between spreadsheet assumptions and physical reality.</p> <p>Financial models are clean. Roofs are not.</p> <p>Owners, developers, and even EPCs often rely on high-level feasibility spreadsheets to green-light projects. Watts per square foot. Modeled production. Utility rates. IRR targets. On paper, everything works.</p> <p>But spreadsheets don’t show you:</p> <p>• Roof membranes nearing end of life • Hidden structural constrai...

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  Episode #8

  Evaluating Commercial Roofs for Solar Revenue: Turning Idle Square Footage Into a Cash-Flowing Asset

  Feb 17, 202613 minS1

  <p>Most commercial property owners track revenue per square foot inside their buildings but almost none measure the financial potential sitting right above them.</p> <p>In this episode, Alexis Lewis breaks down how commercial and industrial roofs should be evaluated not as maintenance liabilities, but as revenue-generating infrastructure. This is not a sales pitch for solar panels. It’s a practical framework for deciding whether a roof deserves capital allocation at all.</p> <p>You’ll learn how experienced asset managers and operators should think about rooftop solar through the lens of math, risk, and lifecycle planning not hype.</p> <...

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  Episode #7

  Solar Is Energy Not a Tax Strategy

  Feb 10, 202616 minS1

  <p>For the past decade, solar has often been sold backwards.</p> <p>Not as critical energy infrastructure but as a financial product wrapped in tax incentives, accelerated depreciation, and performance assumptions that rarely get stress-tested in the field.</p> <p>In this episode, I break down a hard truth that many asset owners, developers, and investors are only now confronting:</p> <p>Solar is energy first. And energy systems have lifecycles, failure modes, and operational risk whether the spreadsheet acknowledges them or not.</p> <p>Drawing from real-world experience inspecting and maintaining commercial solar systems in dense urban environments...

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