Energypreneurs

Mariam Ispahani, a Climate Tech Entrepreneur from the San Francisco Bay Area, explained her transition (01:00) from early solar startups to turning ubiquitous plastics into a renewable form. Ms. Ispahani has been a pioneer in the off-grid solar power in Bangladesh (09:00). Today, she discussed her larger ambition and passion for tackling global plastic pollution. She explained her bioplastics startup (16:00), her team, and the status of the market (34:00).

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Cindy Malvicini, Senior Advisor at the Asian Development Bank, described her professional journey from an environmental policy and transparency expert (01:00 min) to climate adaptation initiatives in Nepal (02:00 min) to her involvement in gigawatt scale solar projects in Central Asia (06:00). Today, she rides her electric scooter (13:00 min ) and shaping ADB to become Asia's Climate Bank (18:00). She talks about startups and venture fund (24:00 min and the importance of being part of the change and make things happen (35:00 min)

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Vincent Perez, Chairman of Alternergy, was a different kind of energy minister (0:51 min) with an entrepreneurial heart (3:00 min), which brought him to be the main torch bearer of renewable energy in the Philippines (14:00). In today's episode explained his journey, the competition within renewables (22:00 min) and his plans to bring Alternergy to IPO through democratic capitalism (30:00 min).

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Here Mohammad Tauseef Anwar, Cofounder, Cassetex discussed the ecosystem (06:30 min) of electric vehicle conversion in Bangladesh; how his startup is developing managing the R&D and Funding side (16:00 min), encouraging women entrepreneurship (19:30 min), and setting pseudo industry standards (22:00). He also shared his insight about international expansion ambitions (26 min) and global EV retrofitting opportunities (38:00 min)

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James Hamilton, John Poljak, Paul Martin, and I explored the Hydrogen debate's dark side (00:40 min) and the fundamental point of why it does not make sense to use Hydrogen as a fuel (03:00).

While we hear about Mega projects like the $21 billion Asian Renewable Energy Hub, the viable entry points (07:00) remain unclear. We explored the key numbers (10:20 min) and established why Hydrogen is a Win-Win bet for the fossil fuel industry (13:00 min). Green steel and Ammonia may be great products, but how to find consumers (30:00 min) and create a sense of urgency (55:00 min) for climate change.

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Vehicles to the grid are exciting and may create massive disruption in today's electricity supply industry of the future. In this episode, I caught up with Claire Miller, the Director of Tech and Innovation at the Octopus Electric Company, UK. We explored the technology (2:00 min) for the different elements of the vehicle to grid and how it may support and eventually disrupt today's electricity distribution business (8:00 min). How with induction charging (9:10) in future "demand" will be able to move (15:25), and opportunities drones (17:50 min) may bring. We also touched on innovative financing and leasing models (20:07). Claire explained the impact of autonomous vehicles (32:10), opportunities for EV retrofit (39:05), and opportunities for young people (45:10)

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Hydrogen is not only highly flammable; it's a hot topic in the energy world today.

In this episode, Xavier Lara, James Hamilton, David Wenger, John Poljak, and I introduced (01:00 min) and engaged in a conversation with Project Examples (06:30 min), Gray, Green, Blue, and Numbers (11:30 min), the Hydrogen and Ammonia (27:45 min), the Kilos and Gigajoules (33:25 min) and new Market Opportunities (40:50)

We touched upon the need for new players (48:50) and high-level project numbers (53:40)

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Keisuke Taketani is a graphic facilitator or designer who does something magical; he turns long reports into a single page of graphics that are easy to understand. Today we discuss visualization and communication on climate Issues (01:20 min) and how to turn long boring presentations into exciting insights (06:09 min). Keisuke insists that we have to communicate better as we don't have time (14:22 min) and why we are unable to about obvious things (24:00 min).

He also explains the resources are available (32:00) in to cope with the challenges of translating long English texts to friendly Visuals (40:00 min)

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Aliman Temirbek is high energy and engaging communication professional. She heads Asian Development Bank's communication in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. Today she tells a story (0:33 min) about her not keeping a secret to herself (09:00). We discussed electric cars (22:00 min), charging business opportunities (26:00 min), and electric vehicle retrofit (30:22 min) opportunities in the Kyrgyz Republic. While we all ponder what we can do at an individual level to take action and save our energy costs, here, in this episode, Aliman explains what she did. I was amazed by her extraordinary efforts in her neighborhood to engage everyone in climate actions.

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Johan Karlsson, co-founder of State of Charge, Melbourne, discussed the fascinating state of play in the electric vehicle space in Australia. We discuss the story behind their startup, the energy transition (07:50 min) in Australia and the re-thinking (09:46 min) of the EV charging business. Johan explained their start up (13:00 min), bi-directional charging opportunities (23:00 min) and why there needs to be mandatory solar and charging requirements (30:45 min).

I liked Johan's one sentence advice to all entrepreneurs (35:00 min) and his excitement for the overall state of play in Australia (40:35 min).

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