Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast. My name is Imogen Bogle and I am one of the presenters here on the Everything Electric show and the fully charged show. And today we are talking about the enormous untapped potential of rooftop solar with a wonderful woman called Joe Parker Swift. Now whenever we talk about solar here on the fully charge show or the Everything Electric show, someone invariably and very rightly so puts in the comments something along the lines of

why isn't every roof shop here in the UK covered with solar? And it is a really, really valid question.

There are some two million industrial or non-domestic buildings here in the UK. So you think factories,

warehouses, supermarkets,

what have you. And the capacity on the rooftops of those two million non-domestic buildings equates to roughly 128 gigawatts if they were all covered with solar. Now to put that into

perspective, that could power 30 million homes. And the UK Solar Task Force is currently on a mission to deploy 50 gigawatts of solar by 2030.

So, 128 gigawatts, that is absolutely enormous.

And yet, at present, just 11 gigawatts of capacity is currently being used.

So in this podcast, we wanted to see who is addressing this challenge,

who has a solution, and what are the barriers that still remain in the way. So we're going to

get into all of that with the wonderful Joe Parker Swift, who works for a company called Soliverse,

but first, a very, very quick advert break. Try everything electric at our exhibitions in Australia, Canada and the UK.

Next up, London.

Jo, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast.

This is really exciting, not least because I think it's safe to say that we come across a lot of men within this industry.

We come across fewer female CEO. So we are particularly lucky on not just for the fact that

you're doing some incredible things, but also that you're sort of somewhat bucking the

trend, which we're very grateful to see. But I wonder if you could kind of kick us off with

describing who exactly solar

is and what is exactly the problem that you're trying to solve.

And also, have I pronounced the name correctly?

Yeah, it's Solovus.

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