Energypreneurs

Victor, the co-founder of the GenixGreen, a battery design and manufacturing company, talks about his 12.5 kg. 1 kWh battery pack with BMS, which is about $250-$300. Victor believes, this plug and play system, that can directly connect DC and AC products, the future of off-grid solar. His company moved out of E-bike Batteries, as competition is huge but sees huge potential in-home storage segment....

Dr. Shannon Arvizu, a long term advocate and researcher of electric vehicles, shares her journey in the industry and explains how the policy scene has changed and where it's headed. Shannon also shares what it's like to be a Chevy Volt owner for over 10 years. Shannon and I discuss the waning influence of the fossil fuel industry on the transportation and energy sector and promising directions for...

Is there a future for hydrogen in the Pacific? Maybe yes, maybe no, what about the electric vehicles? I discuss all these exciting transformational technologies and many more with Rafael Abbasov a seasoned Energy Specialist of the Asian Development Bank. Rafael started his career as a CFO of a state-owned power utility in the Caucus and then developed an energy project in the former Soviet countri...

Speaking from the "Salad Bowl" of sunny California, Bill Shelvin, a seasoned CEO of multiple renewable energy and tech companies shares his vision about zero to negative carbon growth. Bill is a-passionate about efficiency and moved from the real estate industry to sustainability and he sheds light on renewable energy, methane capture, hydroponics, and community vertical agriculture. His passion i...

Nigel Savidge, and international development professional, now living sustainability in their 5000 m² property in rural Victoria, Australia, growing vegetables and everything else. He shares his view about sustainability and climate change—we talk about working from home, growing green tomatoes and gardening but at the same time the realities of climate he can now see. Please join us in this inspi...

Jeff Wolfe, a serial entrepreneur, CEO of Veloce Energy, explains how he scaled up his small mom and pop solar company of 1998 to become the first nationwide residential solar company in the US. His today's passion is modular energy storage and charging that will eliminate the design for custom design and installation to minimize the use of space. Please listen in. Connect with Sohail Hasnie: Face...

Andrew Chakhoyan is an alumnus of the global leadership program at the World Economic Forum and is a regular contributor to the Forum Agenda blog. His latest piece was titled: "What has COVID-19 taught us about flattening the climate curve?" We discuss parallels between the Covid-19 crisis and climate change looking at both through the lens of global affairs and diplomacy Neither virus nor climate...

Are we seeing the beginning of the end of coal, oil, and gas financing? Sonia Dunlop, a real third-generation environmentalist, brings optimism to our climate change discussion and explains why the Paris Agreement was a game-changer in the global climate landscape. We discuss financial instruments that are available to retire high carbon infrastructure because of the savings on energy bills. We di...

Everty enables a charging station to talk to its client, an electric vehicle. Carola Jonas, the young CEO joins me to explain her startup company, its strategies, and how smart charging infrastructure will impact the energy sector. We discuss pricing options and trends leading us towards 2030. We try to imagine the future where millions of autonomous EVs with large batteries connect to the grid an...

Globally investors are moving investments away from financing coal projects. Today, we discuss with Mr. Alfredo Bano, the main author of the report, which made the bold recommendation that ADB formally withdraws from financing new coal projects. We discuss the future of the power sector and the changes that have happened and going to happen. If you want to find more, please join us and find out th...

How urgent is Climate Change in the post COVID world? How our climate discussion has changed over the years even within the Asian Development Bank. What can we expect at the next big climate discussion and what opportunities will it bring. Let's find out from Preety Bhandari, the Chief of ADB's Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management   Connect with Sohail Hasnie: Facebook @sohailhasnie Twitter...

Today we meet Sean Luangrath, the CEO of Inergy, a US startup focusing on off-grid solar power. We get a wide angle view of the emerging world of "mail order home solar power". From remote health clinics in Haiti to middle of the Amazon Jungle, Sean's team is displacing diesel generation and bringing lights to many for the first time. Sean invites new entrepreneurs in this nascent industry with: "...

Australia is leading the world in rooftop solar and home batteries. My today's guest Simon Franklin, Managing Director, of ITP Renewables in Australia, shares his insights on the home battery segment in Australia—price, performance, government incentives, and what to look for while buying a battery. Simon talks about the huge uptake on utility-scale batteries in Australia and the reasons behind it...

After transforming Sarawak Power as the CEO, Torstein went back to Norway to retire. Retirement was too boring, so he decided to build a Giga factory on a 500,000 square meter of land with 32 million KWh of battery cells a year. We discuss the future battery price and how his Norwegian battery plans to supply all of Europe. Torstein Dale Sjøtveit is currently the Executive Chairman of Freyr AS. We...

In this episode, my guest was Hang Yin, who is part of the Corporate Strategy team of NIO (https://www.nio.com), who really believes the future is in smart, electric and autonomous vehicles. This was an exciting discussion, we discussed Nio and it's new cars: all the stats of their different models, range, price etc. I finally found someone, who like me, believes that electricity could be free or...

When we convert our first physics experiment in life—create fire with sun and a magnifying glass—on a Giga scale, we get something close to concentrate solar power. This technology simply uses mirrors or lenses to concentrate sunlight from a large area on a single receiver, and covert that concentrated light into heat than to steam and then to electricity. Concentrated solar power projects are big...

Pierre Langlois, the President and Chairman of the Board at Econoler, and I discuss energy efficiency. What is Energy Effciency? A service or an investment? Why it is so difficult to understand and convince clients on energy efficiency projects? How many people does it really take to change a light bulb?  Pierre and I worked on an energy efficiency project many years back, and today we discuss suc...

We hear a lot about battery prices going down but mostly from researchers and reporters. My today's guest is Fancy Lu of Liyuan Battery Company, a battery manufacturer, who will share details of their products and some pricing. I learned lot about batteries on the market from her and was surprised that batteries with about 5,000-6,000 cycles are becoming so common.   We discuss the large MWh scale...

Discussing electric vehicle with a man from the future James and I explore predictions and possibilities about the future of EV and how that might impact the energy sector. Putting my future of energy glass, I tried to view the EV world of futurist James's. We discuss stranded assets for the power sector and the possibility of distribution companies breaking up into micro-grid and eventually to of...

In this episode, Anthony Jude, an ex-ADB staff, explains the transition to renewable energy and explains the floating solar technology, its limitations, and challenges, especially the associated environmental concerns in Bangladesh where floating solar is proposed in fish farms and shrimp farms. He explains how Bangladesh has dramatically increased energy access to about 90% of households with inc...

What is an electric vehicle for the poor? Is it a repurposed old Toyota or a cheap new small electric car? Listen to this episode where Paul takes me through the entire conversion process, the necessary steps, equipment, suppliers, and the component prices. However, Paul may convince you that car conversion is not a good idea as battery prices are still high, but I am not convinced. What's your ta...

Any of today's challenges multiply in the Pacific countries because of the vast distances between countries. As these countries are highly dispersed, the cost of fossil fuel multiplies because of the cost of transportation and storage. In today's episode, Olly Norojono, Director, Energy Division, Pacific Department of the Asian Development Bank explains this region and ADB's work in the region. Ol...

Emily Morris is the Founder & CEO of Emrgy Inc., an energy technology company that is reimagining ways to extract energy from nature's immense reserves, which Emily calls the nature's own battery. She shares her entrepreneurial journey in building her startup with this innovative modular, standalone hydropower systems that can be installed in a day. In her world, a hydropower comes with nature's o...

Wow! So many things are happening in India's electric vehicle market. I did not know. To find out more, please listen to this episode. Mr. Tiwari starts painting this landscape with the current demand growth despite the lockdown. He explains all incentives for consumers and manufacturers of electric cars in India, their pricing and marketing strategies, and why it is a buyer's market. His confiden...

Based in Netherland, Roland operates a boutique EV consultancy. Today he shares the many policy intents behind e-mobility strategies for infrastructure development all around the world. Please join us today to find out why counties must start a staged approach to develop a new EV industry, opportunities a new EV industry will create, and why new Giga factories are essential—Central Asia definitely...