Michael Thornhill

The Renewable Energy Leadership Podcast

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The Renewable Energy Leadership Podcast goes beyond the technology and the megawatts into the people, the decisions, and the culture behind the energy transition. Honest, unscripted conversations with the senior leaders driving the transition. Not just what they are building. How they lead. If you lead in this sector, or aspire to, this is the conversation you have been waiting for.

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Michael Thornhill

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There Is No Bad Organization, Only Bad Leadership: Saurabh Chatterjee on Retention, Trust, and Leading Global Teams 17.06.2026 41:51

Most organisations treat retention as a problem that starts when someone hands in their notice. By then, you have already failed. That is how this week's guest sees it, and it sets the tone for one of the most direct conversations we have had on the show. Saurabh Chatterjee is Vice President of Renewables at WSP in the US, leading a team of 100 engineers and managing P&Ls in excess of $25...

The Grid Is Not Short on Generation, It's Short on Orchestration - with Mitch Berglund 29.05.2026 48:14

What does it actually take to lead distributed energy programmes when the grid is the deadline? Mitch Berglund is Vice President of Sales and Grid Programmes at Texas Solar, founder of iTrust Power, and a 17-year veteran of the US distributed energy industry. He has generated over $150 million in cumulative revenue including $67 million in a single year at Lumio, built and led teams of more than 5...

It Should Work Is Not Good Enough: Julija Kaladžinskaitė on Building a Specialist BESS Team in the Baltics 06.05.2026 46:42

Description: What does it take to build a specialist BESS team from scratch in a market where the margin for error is almost zero? Julija Kaladžinskaitė, CEO of Best Solutions, has done exactly that, assembling a seven-person expert team across commercial, industrial, and utility-scale BESS solutions in the Baltic States, one of Europe's fastest moving energy markets. In this conversation, we...

From Siemens Director to Founder: Farshid Arman on Falling in Love With the Problem & Building Businesses That Last. 06.05.2026 46:29

What separates the leaders who build things that last from the ones who don't? Farshid Arman has lived that question across every stage of the energy industry: from a hydrogen storage startup with no roadmap, to 13 years commercialising energy technologies at Siemens, to VP of VPP Operations at AutoGrid, to founding FlexEnergi, a capacity-as-a-service business serving utilities across the US a...

100% Retention in Renewable Energy: How Weronika Nowak Builds Teams That Stay 06.05.2026 53:29

What does it actually take to build a renewable energy team where nobody leaves? Weronika Nowak, Country Manager for Green Volt USA and incoming CEO for Green Volt Power Poland, has done exactly that. Since launching the US business, not a single person has left and she hasn't had to let anyone go either. In this conversation, we go deep on the leadership and culture decisions behind that 100%...