This week, Tom sits down with Lukas Pfeiffer, CEO and Co-Founder of Gridmetry, to talk about why flexible data centres could be one of the most overlooked tools available to renewable energy developers.

Lukas took a very different route into the industry... From telecoms and data centre consulting, to Bitcoin mining, and eventually to building Gridmetry into one of Europe’s largest flexibility providers for data centres. That background gives him a very different way of looking at the grid.

They get into why 1 MW of flexible data centre capacity can provide similar economic value to 8 MWh of battery storage at around a quarter of the cost, why the Nordics are leading the way, what happens when growing AI demand meets an already stretched grid, and what Europe’s energy system could look like in 10 years if this model takes off.

It’s one of those conversations that might change how you think about what belongs next to a renewable energy project.

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They talk about why the market is heading towards more consolidation, why trying to operate across too many countries doesn’t always work, and why Paolo walked away from Enfinity Global when the pressure around the IPO became too much.

Paolo also explains why he sees renewable energy as a marathon, not a sprint, why many of Italy’s authorised solar projects may never actually get built, and how falling battery prices could change project economics over the next few years.

And to finish, he shares the one change he would make to Italy’s regulatory system if he had the chance.

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He started out managing one of Europe's biggest construction sites, a coal power plant just outside Rome with nearly 4,000 people on site. Then, in 2009, he made the move into the Italian solar market when the industry was still in its early days.

In this episode, Paolo shares how that decision shaped the rest of his career, from building teams and developing projects in Italy to working across Europe, the US and China, joining startups, navigating market downturns, and eventually becoming VP Italy at OX2.

If you're interested in renewable energy, leadership, or how careers really unfold, this is a conversation worth listening to.

Part 2 drops next Wednesday.

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Roland walks us through what it was actually like to merge the RWE and E.ON operational teams across 12 countries, what separates a good site manager from a truly great operations leader, why psychological safety on a multi-contractor construction site is harder than it sounds, and his honest take on where the Nordic renewables market is heading over the next five years

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In Part 1 of this special two-part episode, Tom Essex sits down with Roland Flaig, CEO of Aneo. Roland shares his incredible career pivot and breaks down his unique leadership philosophy: treating your assets like people, and your people like assets.

If you want to know what it actually takes to build trust, lead massive cross-border teams, and why a commercial mindset is the most important skill in renewables right now, this conversation is for you.

Connect with us:

• Follow the REM Podcast for more insights from the frontlines of the green energy transition.
• Connect with Tom Essex on LinkedIn.

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In this episode, Tom and Abel talk about the real challenges of agri-solar. They discuss why a farmer often only gets one chance to make the right decision, why agri-PV is much harder than it looks, how grid congestion has changed project development in the Netherlands, and where Abel thinks the market is heading over the next five years.

A practical, honest conversation based on years of real experience in the field.

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Laurens van Ochten is Head of BESS at R.Power, where he oversees a centralised team across six European countries. He breaks down how grid access works differently across each market, why Germany's ultra-easy access quietly flooded the system with paper projects that never got built, and how R.Power structured its BESS operation to stay ahead of the curve.

Carlo Toic is COO and co-founder of SOL-R Global, a real estate investment company operating inside the renewable energy industry. He makes the case that IPPs should never own land, explains why mixing real estate and energy on the same balance sheet kills your IRR, and draws a direct parallel to what already happened in the telco sector.

Two guests who never sat in the same room, solving the same fundamental problem from completely different directions. The infrastructure beneath the infrastructure is where renewable energy projects quietly succeed or fail. This episode is about exactly that.

Full solo episodes for both Laurens and Carlo are in the back catalogue.

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Mathieu Lassagne walked away from 15 years inside ENGIE and EDF to co-found ZE-Energy from scratch. Without any safety net or corporate playbook, just seven years of going deep into local grid intermittency, hybrid solar-plus-storage, and the unglamorous but genuinely critical work of asset re-powering across France, Italy and Germany.

Francisco Diaz never left the big organizations but he went wide in a way that most people never do. Built a 100-person team from the ground up across six Latin American countries for Canadian Solar, then moved on to scale gigawatt-level projects in India, Germany, and the US. He went around different continents every few years. facing different market rules every time.

On paper they couldn't be more different but when you pull back a layer and they're telling opposite sides of the exact same story.

It's the red tape and the companies actually winning right now who've figured out how to move through brutal regulatory environments as fast as the technology scales. If you're building in this space, regulatory agility isn't a nice-to-have.

What we get into:

— Why the best market intelligence only comes from being in a market before anyone's written the playbook yet

— Mathieu on the structural shift happening right now from centralized utility models to local flexibility and what that actually means in practice

— Francisco on India: the speed, the sophistication of the auctions, and why the volume of work happening there is unlike anything else on the planet

— And the conviction both of them share: throw all the capital you want at a project, without the right people on the ground, it doesn't move

This episode is the highlights package.

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One is a Hungarian lawyer who accidentally built a career in offshore wind after moving to Germany with zero German and two small kids. The other is a Greek engineer who spent fifteen years building renewable projects across four continents and had his daughter born mid-relocation between South Africa and the United States. What they share is the willingness to step back, start over, and figure it out on arrival. In an industry that rewards exactly that quality, both ended up exactly where they belong.

In this compilation:

• The cultural and professional shock of crossing industries and borders
• What it actually takes to be accepted on a site in South Africa as a European engineer Stepping down in title to step up in career Greece as an emerging energy hub and why BESS is the market's next challenge
• And the best single line this podcast has produced: do no harm and take no shit Both full episodes remain in the feed. This is the best of both.

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Natalia Paraskevopoulou, Head of Wind Business Development for EMEA at LightSource BP, discovered renewables in a classroom in Athens in 2004. She went on to move to Johannesburg as a 20-something woman in a field dominated by men, earn respect on construction sites by physically doing the job, and build a career that now spans Greece, South Africa and the UK.

Filippo Ricci, General Manager and Country Lead for Italy at Recurrent Energy, fell into renewables through a friend asking for help in Bologna. He ended up developing markets in Chile, Egypt, Jordan and Cameroon before he was thirty.

Two different paths with the same lesson at the end of both of them.

In this throwback episode Tom revisits two of the most popular conversations from the REM archive and brings them together for the first time.

What they cover together:

1. Why the best careers in this industry are rarely planned
2. What working across radically different cultures actually teaches you
3. Why saying yes to the uncomfortable thing is the common thread in almost every success story
4. What the Italian and European renewable markets look like heading into the next phase of execution
5. And why the energy transition only wins if it saves people money

Leadership, people, and why community inside a team matters more than most leaders admit

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In this conversation with Tom Essex, Maria provides an insider’s view of the Spanish energy evolution; from the early feed-in tariff boom to the grid saturation crisis of today. They discuss the ground-level reality of the 2025 blackout, the necessity of storage, and what the next two years leading up to 2028 actually look like for those moving capital into the region.

In this episode, we cover:

• The Early Days: Joining GAMESA in 2001 and the internal reality of Spain’s first wind energy boom.
• Resilience Through Crashes: Surviving the 2008–2013 market collapse and the five-year wait for real momentum to return.
• Global Perspectives: Moving across the UK and US markets, overcoming language barriers, and avoiding "cultural ego traps" when entering new territories.
• A Milestone Moment: What it felt like to see Spain run on 100% renewable energy for a full day after starting when it was just a dream.
• The Grid Crisis: An honest look at the April 2025 blackout and the reality of 83% grid node saturation.
• The Storage Mandate: Why storage is no longer optional and how creative PPA structures are reshaping the market.
• Strategic Acquisitions: Why this is an opportunistic moment for investors and how to navigate the current regulatory landscape.
• Future Frontiers: Maria’s current work advising on the intersection of data centers, EVs, and total energy solutions.

Connect with the Movement:

• Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-del-puy-ayerra/
• Host: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

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Ksenia has spent nearly 20 years at the absolute edge of the energy business. She started with building a 45-person team in nine months in Russia to mastering Italian in "survival mode," her career has been defined by rapid scale and frontier markets.

Now, as the Head of Offshore Wind Italy for Nadara, Ksenia is leading one of the most ambitious energy projects in the Mediterranean: the development of six floating offshore wind farms across Southern Italy and Sardinia, representing a massive 5 GW of capacity.

In this conversation with Tom Essex, Ksenia breaks down what floating offshore wind actually requires to succeed, why Italy’s regulatory environment is currently the biggest bottleneck, and how the country’s ports and supply chains are quietly preparing for a generational industrial shift.

In this episode, we cover:

• The "Generalist" Advantage: How starting in economics led Ksenia to lead billion-euro energy projects.
• Rapid Scale: The reality of building a 45-person renewable energy team from scratch in just nine months.
• The Mediterranean Opportunity: Why floating wind in Italy is a global game-changer and a gateway for the region.
• The "Three Projects in Parallel" Strategy: Understanding the unique complexity of developing floating technology.
• Regulatory Bottlenecks: Navigating Italy’s policy gaps and what needs to change to unlock construction.
• The Talent Shift: Upskilling workers from legacy coal and naval industries for the offshore future.
• Frontier Leadership: The art of hiring talent and then getting out of their way.
• WindEurope Insights: Key takeaways from Madrid regarding the future of wind in Italy, Portugal, and Greece.

Connect with the Movement:

• Guest: Ksenia Balanda (Head of Offshore Wind Italy, Nadara)
• Host: Tom Essex

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He is now the Group CTO of Innovo Renewables. But this isn’t just a conversation about technology todays episode taps into a masterclass in leadership, resilience, and why your professional relationships are your most valuable currency.

As Stefano sits down with Tom Essex to discuss the "scars" of the feed-in tariff crash, the reality of managing teams more senior than yourself at 25, and why he chose the chaos of a startup over the security of a global utility, they discuss the following:

• The Pivot: From Naples to London and finding a footing in the UK solar market.
• The Market Crash: Surviving the feed-in tariff collapse and being made redundant twice before age 30.
• The "Young Leader" Challenge: Managing peers and senior experts as a first-time manager.
• Scaling a Giant: Navigating the Solar Century acquisition by Statkraft and the transition to corporate life.
• Startup DNA: Joining Innovo at the ground floor and building a team of 100+ from scratch.
• Hiring Strategy: Why he prioritizes junior talent and "proceduralized" workflows.
• The Horizon: Future predictions for the Italian and European solar markets over the next 24 months.

Connect with the Movement:

• Guest: Stefano Girolami (Group CTO, Innovo Renewables)
• Host: Tom Essex

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Over the next 25 years he worked his way through oil and gas, biofuel, offshore wind, hydro and now data center infrastructure. He has managed over $20 billion worth of projects, led teams spread across nine different countries and built a career defined by one consistent belief: that nothing is impossible if you have the right team.

He is now Director of Project Controls at Andritz in Montreal, working on the refurbishment of hydro power facilities across North America that were built 50 to 100 years ago and now need a new generation of turbines.

In this conversation with Tom Essex, Alexis reflects on everything the journey has taught him, and shares a candid read on where the data center and energy industries are heading, he talks about:

∙ Starting in Venezuela’s oil and gas mega projects and what that teaches you about scale

∙ A biofuel project in Canada that turned garbage into ethanol

∙ Supporting Horn Sea 2 for Ørsted, one of the world’s biggest offshore wind farms

∙ What Nordic work culture gets right that North America does not

∙ The transformer lead time problem quietly threatening the data center boom

∙ Why some hyperscaler projects will not survive to the end of the decade

∙ China’s nuclear and hydro infrastructure play and what the US might learn from it

∙ Why retention is always a byproduct of culture and not of salary

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A conversation with a headhunter after a career in sales leadership opened the door and he didn’t hesitate to walk through it.

What followed was a journey through the biggest names in German renewable energy, Notus, Uniper, Aukera. Each role added a new perspective concerning development, leadership, and what it actually means to build something long-lasting.

Today, Philipp is Senior Vice President Development at Emernor, the German arm of Norwegian investor Magnora.

It's a Small team that highly specialized with a serious pipeline.

In this episode, we dig into the reality of the German market and more on:

• The Sales Edge: Why a background in sales is the perfect (if unlikely) preparation for project development.
• The Grid Bottleneck: Why grid connections remain the defining challenge across Europe.
• BESS as Essential: Why Battery Energy Storage is no longer an "optional add-on" for the transition.
• And, Market Consolidation: Philipp’s prediction on why many companies active today won’t be standing in five years.

His view on municipality relationships is an attention grab. In a competitive market, they are the only foundation that matters.

The full episode is live!

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He is now Country Manager for Italy at MICIM, a UK company building critical infrastructure for data center and renewable energy customers across Europe and beyond. This conversation is about what that shift looks like from the inside, and where he believes the industry is heading.

Andrea is one of those guests who has clearly thought deeply about leadership, clearly as a management concept and also as a practical discipline shaped by years of working with multicultural teams under serious pressure. His views on talent retention are particularly worth sitting with. And his vision for integrated renewable and data center infrastructure is already in motion.

In this episode:

• The three projects that defined his career including three years in Uganda
• What managing cross-continental teams across cultures actually requires
• The difference between attracting talent and retaining it
• Why data centers are more complex than renewables and what that means for leaders
• Italy as a Mediterranean gateway to North Africa and the Middle East
• The integrated data center, solar and battery storage vision he is already working on
• Why universities are the most underused talent pipeline in the industry

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This week I sit down with Julia Ward, Project Director at Xela Energy and founder of FLISS a free UK-based mentoring charity supporting women in STEM. Julia’s career spans chemical engineering, carbon capture, solar development, coal asset operations, batteries, and private wire renewables. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, she noticed a gap and decided to fill it herself.

This Wednesday Julia talks through all of it, the career pivots, the moments of clarity, the transferable skills she picked up in unexpected places, and what it actually takes to retain good people in a market that moves faster than almost any other. She also makes a compelling case for why everyone should have three mentors, not one… and what the difference between a mentor and a sponsor actually is.

In this episode:

• Chemical engineering to renewables, an 'unconventional' path
• E.ON’s graduate scheme and a solar placement in San Francisco
• What coal asset management taught her about project delivery
• How FLISS was born and what’s next for the charity
• The three-mentor framework and how to think about job moves
• Private wire energy (the model and the market)
• UK renewables predictions for the next 12 to 18 months

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Today she’s Head of Project Development at MaxSolar GmbH, leading a Berlin office that scaled from 3 to 30 people in three years, overseeing a pipeline of ground-mounted solar and multi-utility projects across Germany.

In this conversation Yvonne gets honest about what the German renewable energy market actually looks like from the inside the grid connection bottlenecks, the influx of international competition, the maturity that comes with economic pressure, and why the industry’s next chapter has to be built on collaboration.

She also speaks candidly about navigating engineering as a woman, the value of community through programs like Women of New Energy, and what she looks for when building teams people genuinely want to stay in. A thoughtful, grounded conversation about the realities of project development in one of Europe’s most active solar markets.

In this episode: ∙ The engineer-to-developer career transition and why it’s an advantage ∙ Germany’s grid connection landscape in 2026 ∙ Scaling from rooftop to large-scale ground-mounted solar ∙ Building and retaining diverse teams in a competitive market ∙ Multi-utility projects: solar, wind and battery working together ∙ Her advice to young women entering engineering today

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This week I sat down with Bernd Kipping, VP Finance, Procurement, Innovations & Technologies at Chint Solar Europe. His career is basically a timeline of everything this industry has been through. We get into:

1. The Solar Valley Era: What it was really like at Q-Cells when Chinese competition started changing everything.
2. The Startup Grind: Building Chint Solar Europe from 5 people to 130 across 8 markets.
3. The Multi-Utility Shift: Why Bernd thinks pure-play solar is no longer enough and what BESS, wind and hydrogen change about the model.
4. Navigating the TSO: The early Dutch grid connection story that says everything about what it means to build from scratch.
5. Market Predictions: Why the UK and Southern Europe are the ones to watch, and his long view on green hydrogen.

Connect with Bernd: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernd-kipping-7131093a/

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In this week’s episode, Kim shares how she deliberately stepped back from seniority to master the technical "weeds" of protection and control. It’s a move most wouldn't have the humility to make, but for Kim, it was the catalyst for everything that followed.

She’s since gone on to oversee more than 5GW of wind, solar, and storage across North America.

Whether you're an engineer, a developer, or just navigating your own career pivot, Kim’s perspective is as honest as it gets.

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Moritz shares hard-earned lessons from over a decade in the industry, including the unintended consequences of the 2017 tender reform, the risks of developer saturation, and how the legal framework is shaping the onshore wind space.

They discuss:

1. How Germany’s early wind boom led to a correction that caught many developers off guard
2. Why permitting bottlenecks have been replaced by tender oversubscription
3. How strategic bidding created a legal and commercial minefield in 2017–2020
4. The future of consolidation and professionalisation in Germany’s renewables sector

If you work in onshore wind, policy, or development strategy, this episode offers a great insight to the evolution of one of Europe’s most important renewable markets.

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Before founding ZE-Energy, Mathieu spent several years at ENGIE, where he worked on corporate strategy and led the acquisition of Solairedirect, a successful solar developer in France at the time.

Now, with ZE-Energy, he’s applying the lessons he learned to build a different kind of company. One that combines solar, storage and real-time optimisation to respond to market needs in real time.

They discuss:

- Why being first to market with hybrid storage was a risk worth taking

- What real-time optimisation actually looks like in asset management

- Why grid congestion can’t be solved by infrastructure alone

- The challenges of re-powering older PV sites post-subsidies

- What he learned from ENGIE’s acquisition of Solairedirect

- The experiences that shaped him as an entrepreneur

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Connect with Mathieu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieu-lassagne-994406/

Nikolaos shares lessons from a career that’s taken him from EPC work in Greece and Turkey to leading development across the Balkans, Baltics, and Nordics , including why local team structure, grid access, and cultural fit matter so much in this industry.

They discuss:

• The shift from EPC to full project development and what that changed for him
• Why Chint’s vertical integration helps them move faster and cheaper than competitors
• How lean teams can outperform large teams if you hire the right people
• Why grid congestion is now the biggest bottleneck in Europe
• How collocated BESS (battery + solar) is the best solution to the grid bottleneck

If you’re operating across multiple markets, managing development teams, or navigating grid constraints, this episode is packed with sharp insights from someone building at scale.

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Connect with Nikolaos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolaoskaragiovanidis-executive/

They cover:

- Why “projects and people” are the two real assets in renewable energy

- How M&A experience shapes leadership and commercial decisions

- What growing a team from 30 to 60 people taught him about culture and capability

- What’s on the horizon for the Italian market

- Why the energy transition must be cost-competitive, in addition to ESG compliant

If you're thinking about how to scale responsibly, build the right team, or focus your pipeline, this one’s worth a listen.

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Connect with Filippo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riccifilippo/

Luca shares why LIO is one of the few platforms in Italy designing renewables and data centres together from day one, rather than treating them as separate industries. He talks about what it means to build infrastructure from the land up, and why being involved from the very first step (land and local execution) is what sets them apart.

This episode covers:

• Why the AI revolution demands renewables and data centres grow hand in hand
• The value of developing from 0 to 0.2 instead of trying to do everything
• How Lio is attracting long-term foreign capital to Italy
• Why doing fewer projects, but doing them better, is a winning strategy

If you’re interested in early-stage infrastructure, the intersection of energy and digital, or what real long-term value creation looks like in practice - this one’s worth a listen.

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Connect with Luca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariniluca/

Disclaimer

This was our first in-person recording, so we ran into a few minor technical issues. The audio quality is a bit variable - both mics were affected, but Tom’s more noticeably.

The video also cuts out near the end, though the full conversation was captured in audio.

We felt the insights were too valuable not to share, so we hope you enjoy the conversation nonetheless!

He explains why his team took construction in-house, how they managed to deliver 11 solar plants at once, and why retention and culture have been key to scaling sustainably.

This episode covers:

• What different European markets taught him, and where the next opportunities are
• Why they acquired an engineering firm to control risk and delivery quality
• How they scaled while maintaining almost zero staff turnover
• Why fast-growth playbooks don’t work in long-term infrastructure
• How they’re applying lessons from solar to adjacent markets like EV and data

If you want to understand what it really takes to build energy infrastructure that lasts, this episode is packed with real-world insight from a team that’s doing it at scale.

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Connect with Rodolfo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodolfo-bigolin-24333115/

Carlo makes a bold case: IPP ownership of land is bad finance. From tax inefficiencies to illiquidity, he explains why mixing real estate and energy assets on the same balance sheet hurts returns, complicates exits, and inflates project risk.

They talk about:

• Why leasing land instead of owning it creates a cleaner, more scalable project structure
• How to separate real estate and energy assets to improve liquidity and resale value
• What solar can learn from the telecom industry’s tower aggregation model
• Why 20% of projects are rejected by IPPs- and how Carlo’s firm targets them profitably
• What makes a project exit-friendly, especially in early-stage development

This episode is packed with deep insight for developers, investors, and operators navigating land risk, exit timing, and long-term portfolio value.

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Connect with Carlo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drazen-toic/

Laurens shares deep insights into the challenges of scaling battery storage across multiple countries, while managing market differences, grid bottlenecks and team structure. He also explains why R.Power chose to centralise their entire BESS team.

They talk about:

• Why easy grid access in Germany backfired, and what other countries can learn from it
• How “paper projects” are hurting hiring, planning, and long-term confidence
• Why Portugal is ahead of other markets when it comes to hybridisation
• What makes a BESS project actually work in real-life conditions
• And why bureaucracy isn’t always a bad thing when it comes to project quality

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Connect with Laurens: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurensvanochten/

Francisco’s career spans three continents, having originated large-scale renewable energy projects across Spain, Germany, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, India and more.

They talk about:

• How he built a 100+ person team across Latin America from scratch
• Competing with global players like Enel and ENGIE, winning hybrid auctions
• Why India is years ahead of Europe in designing truly dispatchable renewables
• What Spain could have learned from Chile’s early grid failures
• What he misses about the chaos of a global career, and what he’s building next

Connect with Francisco: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisco-díez-quiralte-21863637/

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Alexandros’ career has taken him across four continents, from small villages in Zambia, to large solar farms in the US.

They discuss:

• His experiences delivering renewable energy projects in Africa, the US and Europe.
• How Greece is positioning itself as a strategic energy hub between Europe and the Middle East.
• Why he believes every energy professional should work abroad at some point
• Why scaling the industry isn’t about the technology, but rather about the people

If you’re interested in international project construction, leading diverse teams and adapting to life in vastly different countries - this is the episode for you.

Connect with Tom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomessex/

Connect with Alexandros: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandros-kalargyros-0b783a88/

Roderik explains:

• Why the Dutch grid is overwhelmed by going too far too fast with solar development
• What Germany got right a decade ago that the Netherlands failed to plan for
• Why energy transparency on a consumer level is needed to help fix grid congestion
• What he’d tell anyone entering the renewable energy sector for the first time

This episode is full of lessons that can be learned from a country that's already quite far ahead in the energy transition.

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Nick has an unconventional transition from the oil and gas industry to renewable energy, driven by personal values and the desire for a more sustainable future. He shares insights on the challenges and opportunities in the renewable sector, particularly in Denmark, and some of the more unexpected cultural differences he’s encountered in international projects.

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Barrie highlights the importance of carbon markets and the need for a decentralised market to meet future energy demands.

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Natalia shares her journey into the renewable energy sector, starting from her education in Greece to her experiences working in South Africa and the UK.

She discusses the challenges and opportunities she faced, the importance of cultural adaptation, and her current role in expanding Lightsource bp's global footprint. She also highlights the need for more women in the energy sector and offers advice for young professionals entering the field.

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