Insider's Guide to Energy

Chris Sass and Martin Hiller (Hosts of the ETRM Mini-Series) are talking to Chris Regan (Product Director) of Brady."Brady Technologies provides trading, risk management and logistics software solutions for European energy markets.  We help trading participants to profit from the green energy transition. We cover short-term power, curve trading - ETRM, algorithmic trading, credit and liquidity risk."To get more insights about all the vendors that participated in the ETRM Mini-Series, check out https://insidersguidetoenergy.com/energy-podcast-education/etrm/If you want to find out more about Brady, click https://insidersguidetoenergy.com/energy-podcast-education/etrm/brady/

Chris Sass and Martin Hiller (Hosts of the ETRM Mini-Series) are talking to Rich Jefferson (Chief Financial Officer) of Beacon Platform."Beacon Platform moves financial markets into the future with secure and scalable quant technology, elastic cloud infrastructure, and front-office applications. Beacon's integrated development environment and web application framework make developing applications faster, easier, and more flexible."To get more insights about all the vendors that participated in the ETRM Mini-Series, check out https://insidersguidetoenergy.com/energy-podcast-education/etrm/If you want to find out more about Beacon, click https://insidersguidetoenergy.com/energy-podcast-education/etrm/beacon/

Chris Sass and Martin Hiller (Hosts of the ETRM Mini-Series) are talking to Asbjørn Hansen (Managing Director) of Previse Systems."At Previse Systems, we reshape the way Energy Trading & Risk Management software is designed, implemented and operated. We offer a highly performant SaaS solution for European power, natural gas and certificates trading - combining modern software architecture with the latest technology."To get more insights about all the vendors that participated in the ETRM Mini-Series, check out https://insidersguidetoenergy.com/energy-podcast-education/etrm/If you want to find out more about Previse Systems, click https://insidersguidetoenergy.com/energy-podcast-education/etrm/previse-systems/

This week Chris and Johan are joined by the CEO of Soluna Computing inc. John Belizaire. With on-site data centers John and his team utilise to be curtailed electricity to power machine learning computing, crypto-mining and other cloud-based applications. The three discuss how the architecture of their data centers differs from others and how power purchase agreement play into their business model. Listen in to find out how they went from sourcing the first project to getting inbounds and how John ended up dreaming of Jeff Bezos.Soluna's Homepage:https://www.solunacomputing.com/

This week Chris and Johan are joined by Ola Lome. The main point of discussion is the evolution of power markets: How will intraday, day-ahead and reserve markets function in a few years? Are utilities prepared? What will the traders’ job look like? Listen in to get answers to these questions and to find out why a cultural shift in the work space is so critical.  Homepage of Voluehttps://www.volue.com/ 

This week Chris and Johan are joined by Nikhil Vadhavkar, CEO and Co-Founder of Raptor Maps. By combining on-site sensor data with power output curves Nikhil and his team have trained machine learning algorithms to automatically identify performance issues of solar farms. Listen in to find out how digital twins of solar farms can drive up returns on investment and how Raptor Maps’ software engineers landed up in rattle-snake territory.Raptor Maps' homepage:https://raptormaps.com/

This week Chris and Johan are joined by Mathew Sachs from CPower. CPower aims to aggregate distributed energy resources such as electric vehicles, data centres and home batteries to balance the grid.  Mathew shares how demand response has evolved from manually shutting down elevators to real time automation. Listen in to find out what drives customers to participate in the flexibility market and why economies of scale is so critical in this business.CPower's homepage:https://cpowerenergymanagement.com/ 

We’re 50! For this jubilee-episode Chris is joined by Patrik Möller. He co-founded CorPower Ocean and acts as its CEO. He shares the innovations that have set CorPower apart from previous attempts exploiting wave energy and gives insights into future projects and aspirations of the company and the wave power industry. Listen in to find out how wave and floating wind can work synergistically and why the human heart played a key role in the design process. CorPower Ocean's homepage:https://www.corpowerocean.com/ 

This week, Will is joined by Marek Kubik, Managing Director at Fluence Energy, a leading energy storage provider. Marek fell into an energy engineering doctorate by chance, after the graduate job he had lined up in construction disappeared following the 2009 global economic recession. He shares his vision for cheap, abundant renewable electricity for everyone, and describes how batteries can help make that a reality.

This week Chris and Johan are joined by Pexapark’s co-founder, Luca Pedretti. Pexapark is a leading provider of software and advisory services for sales and risk management in the fast-emerging market of power purchase agreements. With the phase-out of renewable subsidies in Europe power purchase agreements offer a new opportunity of renewable energy sourcing according to Luca. Tune in to learn about the holy trinity of renewable energy risks and meeting the demand of various buyer segments. Link to Pexapark:https://pexapark.com/