Energy Enablers: The FORESIGHT podcast with those making a difference in the energy transition

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. “They're curious by nature. And what we're trying to see is, how do we get that curiosity to extend back into their infrastructure and their plans.” Universities are micro-cities in themselves. They are where you live, work and play alongside your peers. They are places of intense p...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. “Modernisation for industry—not only does it bring along all the benefits for reduction in carbon, meeting environmental goals, it also brings along a slew of benefits from a technological perspective, and thus from a business perspective.” The decision to electrify your processes n...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. "Is it a feature, or is it a bug? And I think we could say it's both. It's part feature, it's part bug." Way back in 2014, renewable power generation curtailment was a nascent issue, while the hybridisation of renewables was still a novel concept. Today, both are commonly found acro...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. "I am definitely seeing a pivot in how sustainability and decarbonising organisations have been talked about in terms of value rather than just regulation." Even for those of us in the energy sector, the energy transition is a tricky business. But there is one thing that's clear to...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. It's widely known that solar power is the fastest-growing clean generation technology, and for good reason. For the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector, securing stable, low-cost electricity and its green credentials are key drivers in the uptake of new capacity.  ...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Europe’s industries want to decarbonise but remain globally competitive at the same time. That is where the wind sector is looking to step in and provide the green electrons needed to electrify factories and manufacturing centres. Industries have a growing appetite for what wind is...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Existing technologies can take us a long way towards our goal of a decarbonised economy. But innovation remains crucial for accelerating this progress and eliminating any lingering emissions. Startups are therefore key to this by developing new technologies and services to tackle ch...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. While cyber attacks against renewables projects are still rare, the risk associated with such activities is growing, particularly in a world with an unpredictable geopolitical environment.   Digital infrastructure is essential for developing and operating clean energy gene...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. We often talk about the technical aspects of electric vehicles (EVs), like how they connect to the power grid and the use of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology. However, we rarely consider their impact on society.  This week, European power sector trade association Eurelectric is...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. The concept of digital twins has been discussed across the energy sector for years. From city-wide grid systems to individual wind turbines, creating a virtual copy of an asset to assess its performance is gaining traction. However, for many, it remains an abstract idea. In the late...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. As a clean generation source, offshore wind has been around since the early 1990s. Since then technological advancements and supersizing innovation have turned offshore wind from a small, nice-to-have sector to a full-scale, must-have industry.  The insurance sector has grown a...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. The relationship between water and energy is centuries old—just think of the water wheels used to grind flour. Nowadays, as well as hydropower generation, water is also central to many industrial processes from power generation to data centre cooling.  This week’s guest on Ener...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. The price of purchasing a new electric vehicle (EV) and then having to pay for and install all the additional infrastructure that comes with it, can still be offputting for many potential owners.  However, the argument for making these investments is getting stronger by the day...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Mention blue hydrogen in a conversation about the energy transition and you’ll get a mixed response. In the spectrum of hydrogens, blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas through a process that captures and stores the carbon dioxide. So some see it as a barrier to a cleaner green...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. At the COP28 climate discussions in Dubai, the clean energy sector celebrated worldwide support for its double-down, triple-up campaign. The pledge saw governments commit to tripling renewables generation capacity and doubling the energy efficiency improvement rate by 2030.  On...

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. The use of hydrogen in the energy sector is an idea that isn’t going anywhere. But there are many hurdles that need to be overcome if it is to truly impact the quest for a decarbonised economy.  While it is a clean-burning fuel and can take advantage of using renewable generati...

Digital twins have long been used to help monitor renewable energy generation assets. But with the growth of new digital tools able to support the use of this data, digital twins are becoming vital tool to maximise production.  Joining David on Energy Enablers this week is Werner Coppye, co-founder and CTO at 3E, a provider of digital solutions for renewable energy projects.  They discus...

The shift towards a future where electric vehicles (EV) rule the road seems inevitable. As a result, grid operators, consumers and software companies can now concentrate on taking advantage of the new business models that are emerging in this market.  Such models were not possible in a market dominated by internal combustion engines. In this episode of Energy Enablers, David speaks with Torbe...

Digitalisation is playing an ever-growing role in how we operate systems and processes. None more so than in the industrial sector, where digital tools are helping to accelerate and economise processes.  In this episode of Energy Enablers, Babara Frei, executive vice president of Industrial Automation at Schneider Electric, tells David about how a new generation of digital technologies, dubbe...

The sheer number of electric vehicles on our roads today means the storage capacity that is being connected to the grid is also growing.  If grid operators were able to access and manage that capacity—of course, without impacting the vehicle owners—it could go a long way in supporting the energy transition.  In this episode of Energy Enablers, David is joined by Stefan Perras, head of pr...

Insurance is often seen as a necessary evil. It’s a cost that is often only beneficial when the worst happens. But the sector is trying to reposition itself as much more as an enabler for the energy transition.  In this episode, recorded on the fringes of the Green Zone at COP28 in Dubai, David speaks to Andy Cox, head of energy transition at insurance broker Howden.  Andy puts forward h...

With greater attention falling on the use of aviation for travel and the movement of goods, the shipping sector has escaped a lot of scrutiny. This is changing fast, however, as more decarbonisation focus is being placed on supply chains and the so-called Scope 3 emissions.  With many alternative propulsion options available to sea-faring vessels, a major hurdle is deciding which technologies...

At the COP28 talks in Dubai last December, the clean energy sector was enthused by the commitment to “triple up” renewables capacity. But the other half of the campaign was to “double down” on energy efficiency measures.  Minimising energy usage through efficient and sustainable programmes will make the renewable energy target much easier—and cheaper—to achieve, while lowering customers’ ener...

Grid congestion and permitting are nearly always cited as the main culprits to the expansion of clean energy on our power system. Earlier this year, German energy company E.ON and Afry Management Consulting co-authored a report about how to tackle the tricky yet vital problem of infrastructure buildout to support the energy transition. In this episode of Energy Enablers, we discuss why the issue h...

In this episode of Energy Enablers, Viggo Aavang from Better Energy discusses the issues facing electricity markets today and the impact the energy transition may have on them. From FORESIGHT Climate & Energy, Energy Enablers is a podcast in which we speak to those who are making a difference in the race to a decarbonised economy. For the best possible audio experience, listen to Energy Enablers i...