Talking Utilities with Ben Lind Ben

For the 12th episode of Talking Utilities I was joined by Matthew Roderick.

Former CTO at Smart DCC and now founder of N3rgy. Matthew is a man well poised to give some insight into Smart Metering and the potential that freeing up the data from our meters offers customers.

For more info on N3rgy visit http://www.n3rgy.com/

In the Eleventh episode of Talking Utilities, I was joined by Peter Allan, MD & Founder of Surple.

Surple are a British Start-up helping companies to better engage their teams around their energy consumption.

We talked about what it's like to start a company in the energy sector, how businesses can use things such as gamification to better engage their team members and Peter gave us a couple of great suggestions for what he's expecting to hit the industry in 2019 and beyond.

Enjoy everyone!

It's episode 10 of Talking Utilities and we've brought you another cracking guest.

Stuart Mitchell is an enterprise architect with a career that spans both the water and power sectors as well as spending some time at one of the regulators.


Stuart broke down his role, shared some best practice for starting a transformative journey and explained how bigger utilities can prepare themselves to partner with smaller, more agile partners.

Enjoy!

For the 9th episode of the show I was joined by the wonderful Kevin O'Donovan.

We talked about the importance of planning for a future of innovation, how to avoid the traps when embarking on digital transformation and what might just be a breakthrough use-case for the blockchain platform.

I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with Kevin and I highly recommend people engage with him further at the following links.

Twitter: @Kevin_ODonovan
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kevinodonovan
Web: Kevin-odonovan.com

In the eighth episode of Talking Utilities, I was joined by John Hutchins, Head of Smarter Living at EDF Energy Blue Lab



Blue Lab are the innovation arm of EDF Energy's commercial department



We got into the importance of an innovative culture, what an incredible time it is for technology in the sector and John spoke to us about how important it is for utilities to diversify their product offering and how energy and a connected home can become synonymous.



Huge thanks to John for being on the show.

In the seventh episode of Talking Utilities, I was joined by Killian O'Connor, Co-Founder and COO of Solo Energy.

Solo are building a virtual power plant which allows a connected network of homes and businesses to store excess generated energy.

We discussed the proliferation of EVs, busted some myths about renewable energy generation and speculated on what a better connected country might mean for the environment.

Thanks to Killian for joining me.