Insider's Guide to Energy

This week, Will is joined by Eddie Obropta, co-founder and CTO of Raptor Maps, a provider of lifecycle management software for the solar industry. Eddie talks about the months that he and his co-founder Nikhil spent meeting farmers in Idaho and Saskatchewan as they tried to find the right product-market fit, before they settled in the solar industry. Despite solar's maturity, Eddie talks passionately about just how much room he sees left to run in the industry.

This week Chris is joined by Meredith Angwin, author of the book “shorting the grid”. The two talk about the stability of the US grid, how the northeast was once on the brink of a rolling black-out and why gas power plants play such a crucial role in this. Listen in to find out how tax credits influence the occurrence of negative electricity prices and how grid costs are allocated to the consumers. Link to the book:https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Meredith-Angwin/dp/1735358002/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=shorting+the+grid&qid=1651396265&sprefix=shorting+th%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-1 

This week, Marcelo is joined by Jeremy Akin, a Development Analyst at ConnectGEN LLC, a utility-scale renewable energy and storage developer. Jeremy explains how a desire to enact change and a special book led him to pursue a career in renewable energy project development. He goes into the challenges and opportunities of starting his career in this industry and advises young professionals on how to break into the alternative energy space.

In this week’s episode Chris is joined by Jereme Kent, the CEO of One Energy. One Energy builds and operates on-site wind turbines for industrial energy users. Chris and Jereme discuss the importance of wind energy in the global energy system and its potential as the largest source of renewable power in the United States. Listen in to find out more about how wind power can meet the world’s electricity needs and which challenges the wind resource development faces in the near to long-term. One Energy’s Homepage:  https://oneenergy.com 

This week, Will is joined by Andrei Covatariu, a Senior Research Associate at the Energy Policy Group. Andrei shares how growing up in Cernavodă, a small city which is home to Romania's only nuclear power plant, led him to pursue a career in energy. He discusses his latest venture, a forum for sustainability knowledge-sharing that he co-founded called ECERA, and also the importance of being resilient for achieving success.

This week Chris and Johan are joined by Harald Överholm, the CEO of Alight. Alight provides solar on-site and off-site PPA projects for corporations to accelerate the transition to solar energy. The three discuss about the main drivers of the solar market and its opportunities to save the money while hedging power against market volatility. Listen in to find out more about the business model transformation of PAA over time, current challenges and risks the solar industry faces and the future prospect of solar technology.  Alight’ Homepage:  https://www.alight-energy.com 

This week, Marcelo is joined by Ana Teresa Moreno, a Climate Risk and ESG consultant at Hartree Partners, a global energy and commodities firm. Ana Teresa shares how growing up in a family of electrical engineers led her to a path in renewables and energy transition and how her early career evolved in tandem with the Mexican energy market. She contrasts her experiences working in the energy sector both in developing and developed countries and shows her perspective as a woman in energy

This week Chris and Johan are joined by Peter Bance from Origami. Origami helps digitalize energy companies bringing together the physical and virtual worlds of energy. The three discuss the importance of early customers willing to do pilot projects and the need for real time data in today’s energy industry. Listen in, to find out how the required skill set in the industry has changed and what that has to do with streaming services.  Origamis homepagehttps://www.origamienergy.com/

This week Chris and Johan are joined by Jan Skjoldhammer, the CEO of NoviOcean. NoviOcean has developed the wave energy converter which delivers stable energy to the grids. The three discuss the perspectives of wave energy in the global energy system and its potential as a viable energy source. Listen in to find out more about how wave energy can meet the world’s electricity needs and which difficulties the wave energy sector faces in attracting funds and financing. NoviOcean’ Homepage: https://www.noviocean.energy

This week Chris and Johan are joined by Robert Rapier, director of environment, health, and safety at Proteum Energy and author at various media outlets.  Robert shares his insights on the oil and gas markets in context of today’s challenges such as the Keystone XL Pipeline and the trend towards energy independency.  Listen in to find out why the sky rocketing oil prices are only partly a consequence of the war and where the oil prices will settle in half a year according to Robert’s prediction.