Join us and Michael Gove for The Spectator Energy Summit. Book your tickets now to have the last word on energy debates. Make sure you use discount code: WPC25 at checkout for 25% off your purchase: https://events.spectator.co.uk/events/the-spectator-energy-summit-2025 How will energy storage change everything for the UK’s energy future and what impact could it have for policy? In this episode, we explore how energy storage will transform the UK energy sector and beyond. Host Alex Wolfe spe...
Join us and Michael Gove for The Spectator Energy Summit. Book your tickets now to have the last word on energy debates. Make sure you use discount code: WPC25 at checkout for 25% off your purchase: https://events.spectator.co.uk/events/the-spectator-energy-summit-2025 How can diplomacy shape the future of global energy? In this episode, host Alex Wolfe and Max Austin (Director of Government Relations) interview Brazil’s Ambassador to the UK, Antonio de Patriota, on Brazil’s energy tr...
Join us and Michael Gove for The Spectator Energy Summit. Book your tickets now to have the last word on energy debates. Make sure you use discount code: WPC25 at checkout for 25% off your purchase: https://events.spectator.co.uk/events/the-spectator-energy-summit-2025 Toyota host the Wolfe Power Club Podcast at the famous UTAC Millbrook Proving Ground. Our listeners may know it better as the James Bond scene where the DBS Aston Martin was flipped on the alpine terrain! Hydrogen vehicles ha...
Join us and Michael Gove for The Spectator Energy Summit. Book your tickets now to have the last word on energy debates. Make sure you use discount code: WPC25 at checkout for 25% off your purchase: https://events.spectator.co.uk/events/the-spectator-energy-summit-2025 What does the future of UK energy look like and can we really balance Net Zero with security and affordability? We’re kicking off Season Two with The Spectator Editor, and former Conservative politician, Michael Gove. Join Mi...
Join us and Michael Gove for The Spectator Energy Summit. Book your tickets now to have the last word on energy debates. Make sure you use discount code: WPC25 at checkout for 25% off your purchase: https://events.spectator.co.uk/events/the-spectator-energy-summit-2025 Relive the best moments from the first season of the Wolfe Power Club Podcast, where we bring you the most impactful conversations, powerful insights, and unforgettable highlights from the world of energy. Sit back, relax and...
Wolfe Power Club is proud to be partnering with the Spectator Magazine to co-host their Energy Summit 2025 on November 24th. If you want to become a potential partner and have the last word on energy debates in 2025, please contact us. At Reform UK’s huge conference last week, our host Alex spoke with everyone from NHS nurses to Reform’s elected politicians, councillors Linden Kemkaran, Peter Harris and Peter Colley. We also spoke to future MP of Thurrock Sophie Preston-Hall. Reform made cl...
Wolfe Power Club is proud to be partnering with the Spectator Magazine to co-host their Energy Summit 2025 on November 24th. If you want to become a potential partner and have the last word on energy debates in 2025, please contact us. With the future of the North Sea industry high on the agenda, we’re asking: Is it time for a fairer tax policy to protect growth and safeguard over 200,000 jobs? In this week's episode our host Alex and Director of Government Relations Max Austin sit down wit...
In this week’s episode, our host Alex explores Britain’s shrinking refinery sector, which has fallen from over 20 sites in the 1970s to just 4 today. The Prax Lindsay Oil Refinery is now closing, marking another blow to the industry. Meanwhile, the owners’ fortunes have reversed, shifting from Rich List billionaires to facing a £250 million outstanding tax bill to the UK government. Alex unpacks two decades of refinery shifts across Europe, what keeps them viable, and the real factors driving...
This week, we return to Farnborough for the British Motor Show to explore the answers surrounding electric vehicles (EVs) within the energy transition. Our host Alex goes inside the world of hypercars, speaks with YouTubers Mark McCann, Nick O'Leary and Yiannimize and explores the resistance many petrolheads feel toward electric cars, including Mercedes. Tesla gives us exclusive access to both the CyberCab and the Model Y, the world’s best-selling car of 2023 and 2024, and we dig into what ma...
What happens when a world champion Formula One engineer takes on the energy transition? Jon Hilton, former Renault F1 technical director and winner of the 2005 and 2006 World Championships, went on to co-found Flybrid Automotive, developing KERS technology and selling the company for £16 million. He then applied F1 engineering to electrify Rolls-Royce Phantoms, Aston Martin DB5s, and even recycling trucks with Lunaz. Jon joins host Alex Wolfe to explore how high-performance racing insig...
In the UK, car manufacturers may face a £15,000 fine for every electric vehicle (EV) they fail to sell, as per the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate. In this episode, our host Alex reviews the overall automotive UK market; analysing the various penalties and the current sales of vehicles in the UK and the current production figures from each of the leading manufacturers. He also reveals why this podcast is getting its own electric vehicle... This week kicks off Part 1 of our special Sum...
In this episode, it’ll blow your mind that the UK pays over £1bn per year to not use wind energy, the great curtailing process exposed. Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant of Watt-Logic, chats with host Alex on why and how the UK pays over 27p per kilowatt hour for electricity in comparison to Europe paying under 11p per kilowatt hour. Kathryn also goes into in-depth detail about the UK’s journey from parity in 2011 to today’s price gap. Watt-Logic's report: The true affordability of net zero...
In July 2024, Labour entered the UK Government with a promise: a fair, fast, and bold transition to net zero. One year on, what has Labour really achieved and has Keir Starmer’s Government stayed true to that promise? On this week’s episode our host Alex and our Director of Government Relations Max Austin review the good, the bad and the ugly of Labour’s energy work across the past year. Key topics discussed in the episode include: carbon capture, Great British Energy, Heathrow blackout and...
The transportation sector is facing its most significant revolution since the internal combustion engine, and Windrose Technology is leading this transformation with electric heavy-duty trucks that are redefining what's possible. Could this be the beginning of the end for diesel trucks? The revolution in heavy transport has begun. On this week's episode, our host Alex is joined by Windrose founder, chairman and CEO Wen Han. Wen utilises Windrose for their clean-slate approach to truck ...
On this week’s episode of Wolfe Power Club, our host Alex is joined by John Gassenmaier from technology supplier Bosch, to talk about their pivotal role in the automative value chain. From their involvement with OEM-approved fuels to their ambitious summer Tour d'Europe project, where Bosch collaborated with 28 partners across 17 countries to explore the benefits of HVO fuel in the HGV market, we learn how Bosch use the findings from Tour d’Europe to present to the EU government that liquid f...
To celebrate the start of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, Hattie Park, Wimbledon’s All English Lawn Tennis Club’s sustainability officer at Wimbledon, discusses with our host Alex the various initiatives and challenges faced by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) in their pursuit of sustainability. We also hear from 4x Wimbledon semi-finalist Tim Henman who predicts the Wimbledon 2025 winners. In this podcast, we find out how Wimbledon operates their own energy consumption and how the...
Last week, policymakers and industry leaders gathered at the Houses of Parliament for the official launch of Smart Data Group - a new industry-led organisation aiming to accelerate the rollout of smart data initiatives across the UK, with a particular focus on transforming the energy sector. In this episode, our Director of Government Relations, Max Austin, reports from the event and speaks with key figures driving the smart data agenda. He interviews the UK’s first Smart Data Minister, forme...
This week, Wolfe Power Club attended POWERful Women’s 2025 State of the Nation Annual Report, highlighting the importance of female representation in energy leadership roles. Despite an increase in middle management, overall results remain disappointing among the UK’s top 100 energy employers, underscoring the urgency of a cultural shift in the industry to reach the goal of 40% gender balance by 2030. Our host Alex interviewed various speakers across the sector who share their insights ...
On this week's episode, host Alex reviews the Net Zero Transport Council where the Zemo Partnership unveiled their crucial "Map of Missing Policies" document, revealing where current approaches to zero-emission transport are facing hurdles. Featuring insights from various visionaries, including Lord John Deben (former Conservative Party Chairman under Margaret Thatcher), they analyse the critical barriers preventing faster adoption of green transport solutions. Against the backdrop of t...
On this week's episode, host Alex reflects on the recent publishing of the British Sunday Times Rich List which included the Blackburn billionaires that rank a respective 32nd position. Alex covers the remarkable journey of the Issa brothers from purchasing their first petrol station in Bury for £150,000 to becoming billionaires worth £6 billion. Their entrepreneurial story demonstrates how two brothers from working-class Blackburn built an international business empire spanning 9 countries w...