Energypreneurs

Jacqueline van den Ende, a serial entrepreneur, and investor talks about her passion for building high-impact ventures. Born in Australia, growing up in Syria and Europe with ex-pat parents, and even living in Asia she brings an excellent perspective on entrepreneurship in multiple industries and countries—a non-profit consulting firm in Europe, a real estate start-up in the Philippines, and an alternative investing platform to promote climate investment in Europe.

I am amazed by the energy Jacquie brought into our conversation — please join in to find more.

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Jukka Jarvinen, a matrix entrepreneur of batteries, talks about the dawn of a new era, where energy storage brings the biggest paradigm shift in the energy sector. His passion for electric cars started when he drove his first EV in 1992, his love of EV eventually led him to become one of the top battery technology experts. In this episode, he explains the battery value chain, its recycling, demand for batteries, pricing, and how coal can be a raw material for batteries.

We discuss the opportunity for battery and EV manufacturing in Australia and why the global pandemic has accelerated the battery-led transformations.

He also invited everyone to join the "Battery Chat" in Clubhouse at 7 pm Eastern European time every Thursday.

Join here. https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/mavod91W

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Freddie Tinga, President at Global Electric Transportation, is building new electric vehicles for Asia and Europe. Freddie's team brings technical design from California and manufacturing in Spain.

Freddie's vision is to create an entire ecosystem with his 54 kWh 6.5meter four-wheeler electric vehicles. He wants to import fully made electric cars in the Philippines and then eventually establish electric vehicle industry units.

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Rajat Sarawat is an experienced energy sector professional with more than 25 years of experience in the Industry. Rajat's core experience derives from developing and implementing the regulatory frameworks in the energy industry in Australia.

As a practicing regulator, he shares his thoughts on the challenges of future regulation as rooftop solar power and batteries are fundamentally changing the energy landscape. Rajat explains the changing nature of Ancillary services, which he says, is now been renamed more aptly as Essential System Services in Australia as the market dynamics is changing.

How will the market perform with zero marginal cost renewable energy where the fundamental market design and system marginal price is based on marginal cost of power at a given time remains the key challenge.

How utility-scale batteries are slowly removing the same arbitrage opportunities between peak and off-peak prices, that batteries are receiving the maximum benefit from?

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Jonathan Fievez, the CEO of Carnegie Clean Energy, explains why we may have waves all around us but it is hard to commercially extract energy from them. Sitting by the Indian Ocean in Perth, Australia, Jonathan explained how Carnegie as a technology developer in partnership with the project developers finding niche opportunities between the expensive remote gensets and solar and wind inland constrained island situation.

He argues unlike other renewable energy, wave energy is consistent and predictable. He shares a fascinating insight into how these structures can attract a full spectrum of new fish populations and can help develop new tourism opportunities. How ocean energy can use desalination operation as a battery and many more.

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Xuefei Liu is now in Paris completing her EMBA. This is her third continent in search of a solution to development challenges. Having spent close to a decade in Sinohydro, one of the largest hydropower companies in China, and then in West and North Africa, and to Europe.

She brought an extraordinary aura of energy into our conversation while talking about solving problems of others who can't help themselves. Her advice to young people: life is short, please find something you like and not too huge, preferably in your own country.

Xuefei also asked me many questions making this conversation a high-energy two-way exchange of ideas.

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Bart Édes, the author of Learning from Tomorrow to prepare for the Next Big Disruption, shares his thoughts on how organizations and entrepreneurs can prepare for the future. How to guard ourselves against obsolescence of our skills and investments. We both shared optimism about climate change and discussed the lessons from the Covid-19 experience—how that has fundamentally changed many businesses and why companies must avoid their "Kodak moment" of ignoring early warning signs and many more. Please join in. Connect with Bert Édes:

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You need to have a purpose as an entrepreneur and the purpose can't be making money. My today's guest Mr. Christie Fernandez, CEO of SOOORYA EV, Singapore shares his ambition for the purpose build a 4-wheel electric car for ride-sharing. His target to keep the costs low and develop a modular 4-wheeler for the mass market reaching a production capacity of about 100,000 units per year.

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Yvonne Power is one of three Co-Founders and the COO at Village Energy, and an advocate for microgrids and renewables, moved from a large state-government-owned power utility in Western Australia to a start to change people's lives. Village Energy operates in developing Asia —Indonesia and India. Yvonne shares her technology passion and her entrepreneurial journey, which is definitely not for the faint-hearted.

Village Energy with its IoT-enabled devices and smart app work with utilities and consumers to make electricity cheaper and efficient for all without any additional resources.

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Yes, there is a positive momentum today. Let's listen to what Michael Grimm, Chief Executive Officer, of Carbon Negative Energy, has to say as he shares his passion for renewable energy and battery projects.

In Michael's world, our addiction has reached its tipping point and we have many reasons to be excited about the post covid world. We discuss green hydrogen, seasonal storage, and large-scale solar and wind projects —their specific challenges and the solutions. We bring a unique startup idea for today's petrol stations and many more.

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