A conversation with Alexander Schmidt, CEO/Founder of Bable, on Smart City implementation that is aimed at benefitting cities, companies and citizens.

This episode presents the development pathway for the world's greenest energy storage system: compressed air and thermal energy storage with Michael Simpson, CEO of Cheesecake Energy, which reduces the cost of long-duration energy storage, turning renewable energy sources like wind and solar into reliable and affordable on-demand energy.

Are you interested in blockchain and how it can be applied to the Energy Market? Or in Smart Grids and the software and logic behind it? Then this is the episode for you! We'll talk to Ana Trbovich an expert in this field, who is making change with her start-up and her foundation. #smartgrid #energy #energytransition #cleanenergy

In this episode, we discuss about the relevance of a CO2 neutral life with Sascha Koppe the CRO of 1Komma5°, a German renewable energy startup that seeks to integrate all our energy devices over a single IOT platform and enable the end consumer to have affordable access to the best climate technologies! All in order to reach the 1.5° climate target by 2035.

This episode deepdives into the A-Z of IEA itself, policy research, modeling and insights from the widely cited high-profile reports such as World Energy Outlook.

Two guests from IEA:

Emi Bertoli, Energy Analyst - Energy Efficiency Division

Tim Goodson, Lead energy analyst and modeller - World Energy Outlook

In this episode, we hosted a panel discussion on the effective funding options of energy startups. This panel features two experts on this topic:

Jan Palasinski, Investment Partner, Future Energy Ventures

Meredith Adler, Executive Director at Student Energy

Keywords: Venture Capital; Energy Startups; Diversity; Public Financing

In this episode, we hosted a panel discussion on how sustainable finance could help tackle climate change. This episode features three guests:

Keywords: Green bond; Sustainable finance; TCFD/TNFD climate disclosure; Carbon offset; Climate data analytics. 

This episode features an indepth discussion around the topic of policymaking around fossil fuel company advertisement. Helene Hagel, head of climate and environmental policy in Greenpeace Denmark, will take us through the necessity, motivations, and challenges of banning fossil ads. Pedro Mendes winner of 2021 YES-Europe essay competition with his piece entitled “Fossil fuel lobbying, the other pandemic” also joins the discussion and provide insightful opinions.

Keywords: fossil advertisement ban, climate change, climate policy, fossil fuel, Greenpeace.

In this episode we interviewed Caleb Waugh from Macquarie on the frontiers of energy storage investment covering grid-scale battery, hydrogen, data center backup power. 

Caleb Waugh is a Vice President in the Energy Technology and Solutions team at Macquarie Capital. Based in San Francisco, Caleb focuses on growth-equity, platform and project-level investments in energy storage, microgrids, distributed energy and vehicle electrification. He also leads development of internal proprietary techno-economic-financial models to inform investment decisions.

Caleb joined Macquarie from Lockheed Martin where he led techno-economic modelling and analytics for the energy storage business. At Lockheed, Caleb was the chief architect of high-fidelity techno-economic-financial models used to analyze emerging energy technologies and business opportunities across distributed, utility-scale and microgrid applications. Prior to joining the energy storage team, Caleb held an internal advisory role in Lockheed Martin’s CTO’s office and was responsible for early-stage energy technology scouting, incubation and overseeing a multimillion-dollar university research portfolio in the U.S. and Australia.

Caleb holds Master of Nuclear Engineering and Master of Technology and Policy degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy degrees from Brigham Young University.

In the 5th episode of Talk Energy with YES-Europe, Katia Paramonova, Founder and CEO of Centrly, Forbes 30U30, shared the motivations, challenges and takeaways in building multiple start-ups, including the energy NGO YES-Europe and Centrly.

Katia is a 3rd generation nuclear engineer who went to MIT at 16 for her Bachelors in nuclear and later attended EPFL for her Masters in Energy Management. Having spent time living and working in 4 countries around the world in 4 industries, Katia is on a mission to accelerate technological innovation in key areas, such as climate. To this end, Centrly is building an innovation ecosystem management platform to enable companies to discover partnership or opportunities by building a market landscape custom fit to their industry