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Watt It Takes
with Andrew Birch

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Andrew Birch, the co-founder of Sungevity. Sungevity was an early success story in residential solar. But after 10 years in business, it went bankrupt in 2017. In this interview, recorded five months after the company’s collapse, Birch joined us on stage to talk about what happened. His story tells us a lot about the turbulence that defines the solar industry. 

 
 
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Andrew Birch

Co-Founder and CEO
Sungevity
 
 
 

Andrew is currently the co-founder and CEO of OpenSolar, the the world’s first free, end-to-end, solar design and sales application. Prior to OpenSolar, he was the co-founder and CEO of Sungevity, the Oakland-based residential solar developer, before its bankruptcy in 2017. Before co-founding Sungevity, Andrew was a Business Development Manager for BP Solar and a Vice President at Bear Stearns.

 
 
Watt It Takes is our monthly podcast that tells the stories of founders who are building a carbon-forward future — their upbringings, their risks, their failures, and their breakthroughs that are transforming our world.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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