Clean Data, Clean Energy: How enSights Is Fixing the $Trillion Performance Gap in Renewables

The renewable energy market is booming — but most solar and storage assets are quietly underperforming, and nobody knows it. Alon Mashkovich, CEO and Co-Founder of enSights, is on a mission to change that. A 2026 BIG Innovation Award winner, enSights built an energy business management platform that gives asset owners real-time visibility, clean data, and actionable insights across their entire portfolio. Alon shares how a decade of painful manual spreadsheet work led him to build what the industry was missing. Spoiler: over 70% of systems aren't meeting planned output. enSights is fixing that. Chapters [00:00] Introduction & 2026 BIG Innovation Award [00:27] Alon's Background — From energy consultant to co-founder [01:21] The Market Analogy — Renewables today = cable TV in the 1970s [03:26] How enSights Was Born — Manual data pain that sparked the company [05:30] What the Platform Does — Portfolio monitoring & one-click reporting [08:11] The Shocking Discovery — 70%+ of systems underperforming silently [10:04] Building an Industry Data Advantage [11:35] AI + Renewables — Why clean data must come before AI [15:15] The Solar-to-Storage Shift — Storage as the dominant growth engine [17:33] The Energy War — Data centers, EVs, and the grid under strain [21:00] Advice to Operators — Own your data. Trust your data. [22:03] What's Next for enSights Key Takeaways 70%+ of renewable systems aren't meeting planned output — most owners don't know where losses are coming from Clean data must come before AI — enSights prioritizes data quality above all else Average company spends 2 weeks generating reports that are already outdated by delivery Storage is the next massive wave in the industry Asset owners who don't control their own data are locked into someone else's decisions Links 🌐 enSights: ensights.ai 🎙️ The Winners' Circle: bintelligence.com/podcast 🏆 BIG Innovation Awards: bintelligence.com Enjoying the show? Subscribe and leave a review — it helps us keep bringing you conversations with the innovators shaping tomorrow's industries. Know someone who deserves recognition? Learn more at bintelligence.com .