Insider's Guide to Energy

Microgrids have always been an answer to a round the clock power solution that combines multiple decentralized energy generators and storage to maintain long-term power stability. But how do you finance such complex projects? Join us as we chat with Julian Torres, Chief Investment Officer at Scale Microgrids, a US firm that specializes in microgrid solutions with a vision of making global energy infrastructure cleaner, more affordable, and more resilient. Hear about how microgrids help add value to energy assets, how the American market is moving to incentivize them with attractive project financing opportunities and how the people at Scale pride themselves as the "decarb bros" optimistically combating climate change.  Company Website: https://www.scalemicrogrids.com/ Decarb Bros article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/business/decarb-bros-climate-change.html Hosts: Chris Sass & Jeff McAulay

In this episode our hosts Selina Reinicke and Chris Sass, together with their guest Eric Sobolewski from TLGG, lay the groundwork for this series. What are all the buzzwords about? How much data should your company keep? What's a data maturity model? What role do renewables play in the data science world? So many questions: ready for the answers?

This week we are joined by Lara Pierpoint, Director of the Early Climate Infrastructure (ECI) Program at Prime Coalition.  As a new program at Prime, ECI is dedicated to removing systematic barriers for climate solutions that are ready for initial commercialization activity or need support to move to a massive scale. In this rich discussion, we learn about the ECI program, the funding model and the exciting proof-of-concept interventions underway.   Show Notes:Hosts: Chris Sass & Jeff McAulay https://www.primecoalition.org/ Link to ECI: https://www.primecoalition.org/programs/tag/ECI Climate Infrastructure report mentioned in episode:  https://www.primecoalition.org/library/barriers-to-the-timely-deployment-of-climate-infrastructure References: BEC:  https://breakthroughenergy.org/our-work/catalyst/ DOE OCED:  https://www.energy.gov/oced/office-clean-energy-demonstrations 

Today we have a specialist in power electronics discussing their company's innovative DC modular system for decentralized energy systems. They talk about challenges and standards in implementing decentralized energy systems, managing batteries in vehicles, the concept of energy independent houses, the rise of bi-directional charging, and the future of energy systems.

Today we speak with the Co-Founder of Voltfang, Roman Alberti, about his start-up company’s quest to give used car batteries a second life. Used car batteries still have life remaining and Voltfang brings them to market (again) to provide a complete and economical power solution. Join us to learn about how Voltfang is playing an important role in the energy transition. https://voltfang.de/en/ 

Today we speak with Trish Cozart, Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the United States. We discuss NREL's Public/Private Partnership, their focus on incubating creative energy solutions, and how they support their partners as they develop cutting edge solutions in the energy transition. https://www.nrel.gov

Thrilled to have Sanjay Vijendran, Lead for the SOLARIS initiative, join us today to dive deep into the fascinating world of space-based solar power! SOLARIS is paving the way for harvesting clean, limitless energy from space and revolutionizing the renewable energy sector. 

Today we are joined by Adam Hise, the Managing Director of Ascend Analytics to discuss merchant  battery technology. Ascend Analytics has a focus on the analytic and data infrastructure to support decision analysis and utilizes the latest technologies and modeling techniques to allow energy analysts and risk managers to meet today’s challenges. 

This week we are bringing back one of our favourite episodes where Chris and Johan are joined by Adam Kingdon. He founded Utonomy Ltd, which at its heart addresses the methane leakages in the gas distribution networks. With a combination of specialized hardware and IoT they can drive down costs for their customers. The three discuss physical and cyber hazards associated to this critical infrastructure and how machine learning is implemented in the system. Listen in, to find out how the company optimizes biomethane distribution and how it’s adapting to an ever-evolving market.  

This week we are joined by Dominik McInnis, Managing Director of Wind Energy Trading AG to discuss their business of managing and trading renewable energies in Europe. With expertise from the German electricity market, we discuss how Wind Energy Trading is bringing their position management of renewables to greater Europe, including some of the trends and challenges along the way.  https://www.wet-ag.ch