Net Hero Podcast – With Sumit Bose

Was Labour right to open up Jackdaw to secure home grown fuel or is it a retrograde step on our journey to 2050?

The energy system is getting smarter very quickly. More renewables, more batteries, more digital controls, more connected infrastructure and eventually far more of our homes and businesses talking to the grid. All brilliant. Until you remember that every clever bit of kit connected to something else is also potentially another way for somebody to get in and cause the energy sector chaos... That wa...

The popularity of electric vehicles has undoubtably increased in recent years. So much so, there are now second-hand EVs sat on forecourts across the UK. However, people are still hesitant to buy second hand EVs and the same questions continue to arise: How good is the battery life? Are the brakes still safe? Is the resale value as good as petrol and diesel vehicles? Toby Poston, CEO of The Britis...

We talk constantly about Britain's skills shortage. We need more engineers, more people in energy, more people in nuclear and renewables and the answer nearly always seems to be the same: get more young people into STEM. Fine. We absolutely need them. But what about the thousands of highly skilled people we have already trained who are sitting outside the workforce because they took a career break...

Hugo Energy will soon launch a product that allows households to earn cash from their batteries For today's podcast, we sit down with the CEO of Hugo Energy to get a vital insight on the ever-growing battery and energy storage landscape. After starting off as a lawyer, Ben Dehsi made his name in the energy industry with the creation of Hugo Energy, an all in one energy app. The company is gearing...

Are sails about to make a comeback on the world's cargo ships in a bid to decarbonise ocean transport? When you tell people that sails could play a big part in decarbonising global shipping, it sounds almost absurdly old fashioned. We spent the last century replacing wind with engines, building ever larger ships and burning enormous amounts of fuel to move most of the goods we consume around the p...

Geopolitical tensions, price shocks and the net zero transition are driving volatility. Our latest podcast explores how on-site generation could help businesses manage the changing market With geopolitical tensions, price shocks and the transition to net zero reshaping the energy landscape, businesses are facing a new era of commercial energy volatility. Can Wattstor’s combination of onsite renewa...

Britain's homes need better insulation so could drones, thermal cameras and AI to find out exactly where we're wasting heat and money? I have always known my house probably leaks heat. It's old, poor insulation in the loft, none in the walls and with lots of windows, I suspect I would rather not know how much of the money I spend on heating simply disappears through the roof and walls. Well with s...

This episode it's all about human powered flight from what we produce everyday!    🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify & all major platforms. Subscribe, share, and dive in! To read the full article, Click Here. For any enquiries, please contact: nethero@futurenetzero.com

Well not literally - but is it time for us to use waste water much better as we face global water scarcity issues? Could this 'new water' help us tackle climate change?   🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify & all major platforms. Subscribe, share, and dive in! To read the full article, Click Here. For any enquiries, please contact: nethero@futurenetzero.com

This week Academic Kirsty Denyer tells me how North Sea oil and gas workers are being left behind in the clean energy revolution!   🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify & all major platforms. Subscribe, share, and dive in! To read the full article, Click Here. For any enquiries, please contact: nethero@futurenetzero.com

Loved this episode, I'm transported to mangrove forests where scientists have found incredible bacteria that can 'eat' plastic waste from the ocean..

This time, will the growth in solar globally need a bunch of robots to help us? Or is AI out to take our jobs?

This time I look at energy policy in Wales and explore if this model of energy devolution helps or hinders the net zero transition

This week Alec Taylor from charity Oceana tells me the risks from old oil rigs in the North Sea and the lessons to be learned for offshore wind

This week I explore the real growth in fusion, from concept to proven science its next big step is commercialisation  

This time a man on a mission to make colouring fabrics more sustainable 

Is the political and public backlash against net zero to be expected? This week I speak to the boss of Hitachi Energy in the UK about the cost of transition...   🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify & all major platforms. Subscribe, share, and dive in! To read the full article, Click Here. For any enquiries, please contact: nethero@futurenetzero.com

Greenwashing is still rife but how much of it is down to incompetence? Marketing expert Helen Neal Neal explains it to me...   🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify & all major platforms. Subscribe, share, and dive in! To read the full article, Click Here. For any enquiries, please contact: nethero@futurenetzero.com

Could the industrial cousin of cannabis be the building material of the future?

The film industry is spectacular...at creating waste! So how can we reduce the footprint of cinema studios?  

After 15 years Sumit revisted Hinkley where a new power station is finally coming to life, in this special episode I take a tour around the future of clean power   🎧 Listen now on Apple, Spotify & all major platforms. Subscribe, share, and dive in! To read the full article, Click Here. For any enquiries, please contact: nethero@futurenetzero.com  

With the current jet fuel crisis has the time come for more expansion of e-fuels? That's this week's topic...

The challenge to keep control on rising costs are a feature in 2026, once again, for businesses and the public sector. There are, however, sources of solutions in reach that can boost business sustainability, protect revenue and reduce risk. Get the latest insights and smarter actions to take with water and trade effluent by joining Future Net Zero and Cherie Guthrie, a  Water Plus  senior Key Acc...

Wind turbines taller than skyscrapers powering whole a city? Is that the future of offshore green power... find out in this episode