The Social Economist Season 3 concludes with a third mini-series on the topic of energy! Europe’s energy transition and what it means for both businesses’ competitiveness and Europe’s strategic autonomy is more important than ever. Is this an area where the social economy and social enterprise business models perhaps have a competitive advantage? Join us for this three episode mini-series to hear more on this critical topic. 

In this seventh episode of Season 3, our third mini-series continues! Host Toby Gazeley from Euclid Network is joined by Marc Nijmeijer from WellDecommissioned to discuss their work as an impact scaleup working in the energy transition. WellDecommissioned works in both the decommissioning of oil and gas fields as well as in the development of geothermal power, utilising software to reduce costs and increase impact. 

Marc and Toby discuss the realities of what it looks like to found and scale an impact start-up working in the energy transition. They touch on the challenges presented in the energy sector at the moment as well as the opportunities Europe’s energy transition presents. They discuss several different elements of WellDecommissioned work ranging from their work internationally across the world to local projects in The Hague on geothermal power and the valuable support of EU funding. 

Marc was kind enough to share a couple of podcast recommendations including Everything Energy from the International Energy Agency and The Daily (the New York Times) podcast. Toby, as always, jumped in with yet another recommendation: Trump 100. As we come to the end of this third season, and given all the wild current events stemming from US politics, we know these recommendations are ever more important! 

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