164. 2024 Wrap up: Successes, Surprises and Shocks
Merry Christmas. This is our last Episode of the Year where Laurent and Gerard summarise what impressed them, surprised them and shocked them. AI, Hydrogen, Renewables, USA vs Europe vs China, Climate...
23 Dec 202417min
163. Gerard is live at TedXBerlin / Welcome to the Era of Energy Disruption
Gerard delivered a master class at TedXBerlin about the four forces driving the Energy Revolution Solar, Batteries, Electronics and China. It is called “Welcome to the Era of Energy Disruption” An ex...
16 Dec 202414min
162. Industrial Climate Solutions – Bridging the “Missing Middle” - Dec24
Just Climate is a 1.5bnUSD vehicle established by Generation Investment with the mission to invest in the highest impact solutions that can radically reduce or remove emissions. They occupy the “missi...
9 Dec 202430min
161. Northvolt - Epitaph
Northvolt, once the poster child of the European battery industry, shocked the world last month by filling for Chapter 11 in the United States. The Swedish battery start-up burned through billions of ...
2 Dec 202417min
160. Financing the Residential Energy Transition - Nov24
Deploying solar and heat pumps in the residential sector is all well and good, but many attempts to scale have unfortunately failed.Beyond the king Octopus, Simon Phelan and his company Hometree have ...
25 Nov 202431min
159. Live from Baku Cop29. Inside the Zone: Chaos, Shock and Hope
Laurent goes live to Baku COP29 to discuss with Bruce “Almighty” Douglas, CEO Global Renewable Alliance and tireless promoter of Renewable Energy.He is the one who coins the famous “Triple Renewables”...
18 Nov 202413min
158. COP – Resilience or Irrelevance?
As COP29 begins, the ripple effects of the re-election of Donald Trump are reaching the shores of the Caspian Sea. COP28 welcomed 85,000 delegates, within which a significant contingent of Oil lobbyi...
11 Nov 202428min
157. Mobile batteries, the ultimate flexibility - Nov24
First, Gerard is sorry, he couldn’t make it as he was on a ship in the Irish Sea, and his Starlink wouldn’t connect. So, it is just Laurent interviewing a young superstar, Peter Paul van Voorst, CEO o...
4 Nov 202426min
