The REM Podcast - Renewable Energy Movement

In this episode of the Renewable Energy Movement Podcast, Tom speaks with José Osuna, Head of Construction at Greenvolt Power, covering the European markets.José graduated in September 2008, the same week Lehman Brothers collapsed, and it took him seven months to find his first engineering job. Within two years of starting in wind, he was living in Peru, where he spent nine years working on the country’s very first wind projects.Tom and José talk about developing the first wind farm built in Peru, answering the question that a community who had never seen a wind turbine asked him (“will the smoke bother us?”), why Peru’s early renewable auctions led to controversy and a pause, opening up markets in Chile and Colombia, and moving from development into construction. José now oversees projects across eight European countries.Connect with José on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseosuna84/Greenvolt Power: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenvolt-power/home/Movement Podcast is hosted by Tom Essex Powered by KIGYO.

This week, Tom speaks with Sarim Sheikh, Chair and Partner at Faradeum.Sarim’s career started in oil and gas at Shell, where valuation work in the mid-2000s gave him his first taste of renewables, including the very first offshore wind project in the Netherlands. Years later at GE, he was selling clean energy to oil-producing countries across the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Pakistan, and then building GE’s offshore wind business from scratch.After almost 29 years inside two of the world’s biggest companies, he stepped out to build something of his own, an AI business for the energy industry, while sitting on boards including Octopus Renewables and the Port of Dover.In this episode, we talk about:Moving from oil and gas into renewables in 2004 and 2005Selling renewables to oil-producing nationsWhy you can’t copy and paste an operating model from one country to anotherThe decision to leave a 29-year corporate career, and what AI had to do with itHow Faradeum uses AI on safety, logistics and contract managementWhy the energy industry has always been in the eighth car of the trainLinks: Sarim Sheikh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarimsheikh/ Faradeum: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarimsheikh/Follow the show so you never miss an episode.Powered by KIGYO

Grace Kankindi is Deputy Head of Investment Management at Aquila Clean Energy. She grew up in Rwanda, where once a month everyone, even the head of state, comes out to clean up their community. That stayed with her.In this episode, Grace walks us through her career. A biodigester project in Canada that showed her how much money decides what gets built. A master's at Yale. Four years in Washington DC working on solar tax equity. Two years working for the Rwandan government, including through COVID. And now Hamburg, where she invests in renewables and battery storage across Europe.We also talk about why a good asset isn't always a good investment, why the same battery project can look so different in Italy and Germany, and where she thinks battery storage is going next.Links to Grace's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracekankindi/?isSelfProfile=falseand Aquila Clean Energy:https://www.linkedin.com/company/aquila-clean-energy/home/ Powered by KIGYO

Ypatios Moysiadis has spent more than 20 years working in renewable energy across over a dozen European markets. His career started around the time of Greece’s first feed-in tariff, and today he leads sales across the UK, Ireland and Denmark at BELECTRIC.In this episode, Ypatios shares his view on where the renewable energy industry stands today and why its rapid growth has also created some big challenges.We talk about what happens when solar and wind grow faster than the grid, storage and electricity demand can keep up with, as well as negative power prices, slow grid upgrades, public trust and the impact of changing energy policies.It’s an open conversation about what the industry has achieved, what hasn’t worked as well, and what needs to change next.🎙️ A new episode of the Renewable Energy Movement Podcast is out now. Powered by KIGYO.

This week on the Renewable Energy Movement Podcast, host Tom Essex is joined by Joaquín Aparicio, founder of Energía Circular. Joaquín's career started almost by chance, from a mining project on his family's land in Spain to seven years building grid connections in Scotland, to helping stand up Scottish Power's solar and battery business from just two employees.Joaquín and Tom talk through his path from Iberdrola and Scottish Power to development director at JBM (later acquired by RWE), and the decision that changed everything: walking away from an executive role to found Energía Circular, a biomethane company built from his family's home village in Spain. They cover what biomethane actually is, why Spain is years behind countries like Germany and France, and Joaquín's honest take on what it actually takes to bet on yourself. Powered by KIGYO