Energy Transition Today

In our latest episode, Head of Research at inspiratia, Omolola Coker, speaks with a diverse group of energy practitioners. She's joined by James Stainer, partner at global law firm Gowling WLG, Tim Foster - Head of Energy Services at Conrad Energy, Adam Clarke -  Managing Director at The Energy Consortium (TEC), and Chris Bowden - Managing director at Squeaky. The discussion dives into the cu...

In this episode, inspiratia's senior infrastructure analyst, Andrew Pope, speaks to Jonathan Evans, director of Total Data Centre Solutions, to discuss his views on where the data centre market is headed in 2022. With some major M&A activity taking place in the sector in recent years, notably KKR's US$15 billionn acquisition of CyrusOne, Jonathan imparts some of the deep knowledge ga...

In this episode Oliver catches up with Dr Axel Wietfeld, CEO of Uniper Hydrogen based in Düsseldorf, Germany.  We discuss the growing interest in green hydrogen in Germany and some of the steps that the energy giant Uniper is taking to meet this new demand, including the work being done at the burgeoning hydrogen hub at the port of Wilhelmshaven.  Our talk encompasses many of the fundamentals that...

In this episode Omolola and Kelechi catch up with Gordon MacDougall, Managing Director at BayWa r.e. UK, to discuss the state of the UK's solar market. Our chat touches on the growing excitement for the upcoming contracts for difference (CfD) results this spring, especially with the re-entry of solar and the recently announced news to make CfDs an annual affair. However, there are still many...

On our latest, and first ESG episode, Kelechi speaks with Sustainability & Ecosystem Stewardship Research Manager Morgan Scott and Technical Executive Brenda Brickhouse from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). EPRI is a non-profit energy research and development organisation based in the United States. With Kelechi they discuss the growing intricacies of ESG that the energy industry...

This week, inspiratia broadcasts another invaluable discussion held at day two of its Subsidy-Free and Offshore Wind Summit 2021, this time all ears are on the UK's offshore wind prospects. This panel, moderated by inspiratia's head of intelligence and research Omolola Coker, sought to explore the rapid expanse of the UK's offshore wind market and its relationship with our renewable...

This week, inspiratia is broadcasting one of the invaluable discussions held at our Subsidy-Free Renewables Conference in London last month. This panel, moderated by inspiratia’s senior renewables analyst Kelechi Udeala, sought to explore the role of subsidy-free development on the road to net zero in the UK.  Tune in to hear our first panel of experts discuss the financing trend changing the game...

On our latest episode Omolola speaks with Gowling WLG partner Ben Stansfield and Foresight Group’s sustainability lead, Lily Crompton on their take on the COP26 conference. Our conversation picks up on the last day of the two-week COP26 conference where Ben and Lily join us on the Joint Venture to dig into the outcomes of the event and whether expectations were met. Topics covered include initial...

Maritina and Oliver - in his Joint Venture debut - speak to Thomas Engelmann, KGAL’s Head of Energy Transition, about the company’s plans on the sector's hottest subject, the exciting word of hydrogen.   Thomas has a distinguished career in sustainable energy and corporate finance and shares with us some of his experience, expertise, and unique perspective with us to shed some light on the qu...

Sustainable Development Capital (SDCL) has been around since 2007, always focused on the energy efficiency space and decentralised projects, with a pretty wide geographical remit active in  Europe, the UK, NA and Asia). Over the years, energy efficiency as a concept has kind of become more mainstream and visible, and in 2018 SDCL went public with an energy efficiency vehicle in London, SEEIT.  Its...

In this week's inspiratiaLive, we had Omolola Coker, inspiratia's Data Manager joining the gang for the first time and discussing EQT's mammoth US$5.3bn acquisition of energy-from-waste (EfW) specialist Covanta Holding Corporation . What where the motivations behind  paying premium prices to get in on the circular economy?   Maritina starts the broadcast reviewing ScotWind's of...

In this week's inspiratiaLive, Maritina and Fernando are focusing on HydrogenOne Capital's upcoming  London Stock Exchange IPO and the impressive permitting activity in the US offshore wind sphere.  *** inspiratiaLive is a new weekly live broadcast, live every Wednesday at 10am BST,  allowing you to hear our views on some of the latest and hottest topics, and emerging trends. You can alw...

In this week's inspiratiaLive, Maritina starts the episode discussing battery storage developments in the UK, picking up another pioneer non-recourse debt financing deal, and some exciting domestic flexibility news, including solar-plus-storage and the role of utilities in the transition from consumers to prosumers. Fernando follows giving all the details of President Biden's infra deal...

This week's inspiratiaLive episode discusses all things UK infrastructure, following the long-awaited opening of the country's national infrastructure bank, which recently officially opened its doors in Leeds. Fernando and Oliver take a deep dive into on everything we know so far about the role of the bank, and the expectations to contribute to the country's net zero and infra needs...

Another week,  another episode from our inspiratiaLive broadcast series, and this one is particularly juicy.  In this episode, Maritina gives an in depth commentary on the controversial solar tariff cuts in France, and compares the news with similar past moves across Europe, the effect on the overall investment appetite following such dramatic moves, and many more. Spoiler alert: you may not hear...

Change of plans: please enjoy yet another episode from our inspiratiaLive broadcast series, brought to you by hosts Marco Dell'Acquilla, and the Joint Venture team Maritina Kanellakopoulou and Fernando Moncada Rivera. In this episode Fernando discussed Atlantia's shareholders approval of the sale of its entire stake in Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) and the resulting effect on Atlan...

After popular demand, here's another bonus podcast from our inspiratiaLive broadcast series, brought to you by hosts Marco Dell'Acquilla, and the Joint Venture team Maritina Kanellakopoulou and Fernando Moncada Rivera. In this episode inspiratia discussed Spain’s ‘just transition’ 1.3GW solar PV tender, and what opportunities emerge following global coal phase-out plans, as well as upcom...

In our brand-new episode, we chatted with global consulting firm Charles River Associates on how regulation frameworks and charging infrastructure needs to be understood across the global ecosystem to enable a mass EV transition Reach out to us at: podcasts@inspiratia.com Find all of our latest news and analysis by subscribing to inspiratia For tickets to our events email conferences@inspiratia.co...

The Joint Venture is back with a fresh episode where we chat to Amir Sharifi and Fabio Ferrari from Ardian. Our conversation takes in a diverse list of topics, including core renewables investment, the impact of Covid on electricity prices, the ongoing recovery from the pandemic, and the tantalising prospect of hydrogen production and its application. Meanwhile, Jon and Maritina discuss a landmark...

Here's another bonus podcast from our inspiratiaLive series, brought to you by hosts Marco Dell'Aquila, and Joint Venture veterans Maritina Kanellakopoulou and Jon McNair. In this episode, the trio review the latest deal flow figures from the global infrastructure sector covering a year hit by Covid, with some perhaps surprising results. Later, the conversation moves to a recent huge fib...

inspiratiaLive is a new weekly live broadcast, live every Wednesday at 10am BST. inspiratiaLive will allow you to hear our views on some of the latest and hottest topics, and emerging trends. During these live weekly broadcasts, you are invited to ask questions, make observations and join the conversation with our aim being to encourage a free flow of ideas. Here's a recording of episode 1, w...

Joining us this week for a wide-ranging discussion about some of the threats facing utilities is Sharper Shape CEO Chris Beaufait, with his company offering ways to introduce intelligent monitoring of networks to cope with increasing environmental threats.  Smarter asset management is fast becoming a key tool for the utilities, but with such a splintered and diverse sector in places like the US, t...

Today's episode features a great chat we recently had with Jason Rowell and Randal Kaufman, an Associate VP, Global Technology Portfolio Manager, and Sales Director at Black & Veatch, respectively. Black & Veatch is an engineering firm with a more than 100-year history, with much of that time also spent working with hydrogen which, as Jason and Randal were keen to point out, is not a...

We return for a new year of episodes covering the worlds of infrastructure and clean energy and first up is a fascinating discussion with hydrogen-powered flight pioneer ZeroAvia, as well as one of the company's backers in the form of SystemiQ. We spoke to ZeroAvia's CFO Katya Akulinicheva and SystemiQ's Irena Spazzapan about the promise of zero emission aviation, investor appetite...

This time out we are zooming in on the ever-more important world of smart grids, specifically on how the decentralised systems of days gone by are transformed into networks that can cope with more distributed renewables generation, EV charging, and batteries. This transition has the potential to create particular headaches for distribution system operators (DSOs), but the Swiss start-up depsys is...