Net Hero Podcast – With Sumit Bose

Philip Heathcote, Head of Markets at UK Power Networks services, joined me for a conversation all about the challenges to decarbonise our transport sector. We started with trains - Philip tackled the two-pronged approach most recognise facing the rail networks. Listen to the full podcast to hear what he had to say...

Does money really make the world go round and if it does, why isn’t it doing enough to save our planet?

Reaching net zero by 2050 needs clear regulations and rules to support sustainable capital investments.   That's the verdict from Hanno Schoklitsch, CEO and Founder of Kaiserwetter, who told future Net Zero founder Sumit Bose about the urgency of harnessing a "growing appetite" to build back greener in the UK and Europe following the coronavirus pandemic and get the economy back on track in a more...

Low voltage flexibility from households is a vital part of the solution needed to reach net zero by 2050. That's the suggestion from Sotiris Georgiopoulos, Head of Smart Grid Development at UK Power Networks, who spoke to future Net Zero's Jonny Bairstow about grid flexibility, customer costs and the role of electric vehicles (EVs) and other technologies. Listen to the full interview to find out m...

Is it possible that we ignore the greatest human driver of change when it comes to the climate debate? We always talk about science or politics or money but what about God?

In this special edition of our hit podcast series, Sir Jonathon Porritt joins me for a one to one conversation, looking at our options over the next decade  

Thanks as ever for listening in to our new series “Gaia Says No!” – exploring the nature of human activities on the planet. In the fifth episode environmental campaigner Angus Forbes, analyst Alex Milward and I are joined by a very special guest, Cindy Forde. She’s an educationalist, UN advisor, campaigner and rebel! Following last week’s episode we continue the disussion around the creation of an...

‘If we don’t deliver net zero we are looking at a fundamentally different world’. That’s the suggestion from Alex Goody, CEO of Gemserv, who spoke to future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose about why the professional services firm has become a future Net Zero partner, and as its boss, what he thought about the 2050 target.

In this episode we ask if we are facing a global problem of biosphere destruction, shouldn’t we have a global body which has power over all nations to safeguard our planet? Can we the public get together and make this happen?

Almost 90% of energy professionals say the UK is currently off track for  net zero by 2050 - but Steve Holliday, President of the Energy Institute is here to tell us what needs to happen to turn this around. The former CEO of National Grid spoke to future Net Zero News Editor Jonny Bairstow following the release of the Energy Institute’s latest Energy Barometer report, which surveyed more than 350...

Listen to episode 3 – The Nexus. We have reached the point where humans are in the driving seat with Mother Nature. So what direction will we take our planet?

In episode 2 of our new series Gaia Says No! The question being asked is have we reached the Tipping Point? Will we need to act now to save our future and does it matter if don’t? After all isn’t it a global problem?

In this podcast, Michael Gibilaro of Villa Nursery and Mark Tarry, CFO of AMP Clean Energy, explain how, through an energy supply agreement, the nursery benefits from discounted heat and power. The nursery grows Jolly Tom tomatoes for Tesco, as well as British salads and specialty peppers, all under glass.   In addition to cost and carbon benefits, Villa Nursery has become more competitive, provid...

The first of a new series of podcasts exploring our effect on the planet in terms of energy, over consumption and downright negligence. Join future Net Zero founder Sumit Bose as he discusses our human effect on the Earth along with former banker turned environmentalist Angus Forbes and EY Partner and oil and gas expert Alex Milward.

Nigel Holden heads up Co-op’s Power division and he says the organisation’s goal is bold when it comes to net-zero. Why? Because sustainability and ethics are at the heart of the Co-op’s values and history.

Kevin Brown, is a smooth talking American. We chat on zoom in a relaxed manner but the Senior VP of Schneider Electric’s Secure Power Division drops a bombshell at the start of our conversation. “By 2040 edge computing alone might be 3200 TWh (Terawatt Hours) of energy consumption, that’s like 275 million households bigger than the US, so it’s massive challenge in managing the carbon footprint tha...

British Gas Business remains totally committed to a net zero future and plans to power through the economic downturn triggered by the coronavirus crisis to emerge stronger than ever before. That’s the suggestion from Gab Barbaro, the energy giant’s Managing Director, who spoke to future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose to discuss the company’s commitment to entirely decarbonise by 2050 and to explore i...

That’s the suggestion from Hanno Schoklitsch, CEO and Founder of Kaiserwetter, who spoke to future Net Zero about the effects of Covid-19 and how it would be likely to affect global decarbonisation efforts  

Net zero solutions must not only be green but also prove economically sustainable to ensure fast-paced and effective decarbonisation. That’s the suggestion from Nikki Flanders, Managing Director of Energy Customer Solutions at SSE, who spoke to future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose about the global mission to reach net zero by 2050 and how it can be achieved.

 In the post-coronavirus era, big business will increasingly seek the aid of professional firms to help finance heat decarbonisation projects, rather than funding them themselves. That's the suggestion from Richard Burrell, CEO of AMP Clean Energy, who spoke to future Net Zero about the UK's journey to net zero and what he thinks will happen next.

It is vital to build new social and economic structures that are more in tune with sustainability to enable longer and healthier human lives. That’s the suggestion from Mike Hughes, UK & Ireland Zone President at Schneider Electric , who spoke to future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose last week.

One word can be used to sum up the global energy sector in the face of the ongoing  coronavirus crisis  – resilience. That’s the verdict from  Louise Kingham OBE FEI , Chief Executive of the Energy Institute, who stressed the importance of recognising the vital work being carried out by the sector’s workers every day.

Small scale local distributed energy networks, community energy schemes and off-grid storage has a cruicial role to play in getting us to net zero but only if the government has a rethink on regulations. That’s the opinion of leading energy analyst Peter King, Head of Energy and Utilities at Capgemini Invent.

The  global carbon market  will grow rapidly in the next decade. That’s the suggestion from Vaughan Lindsay, CEO of ClimateCare, who spoke to future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose about the development of corporate integrated carbon strategies and the ‘inevitable’ steps that every business will have to follow in the near future.

Fossil fuels  will continue to need to be used in the future. That’s the suggestion from Andreas Schierenbeck, CEO of Uniper SE, who spoke to future Net Zero Founder Sumit Bose about the issue of decarbonisation.