energy-out-loud

For our first episode, we sat down with Sebastian Mernild — professor of climate change at the University of Southern Denmark and a lead author on the IPCC report — to ground the podcast in the science. How does the energy sector actually shape the climate, what does the latest research tell us, and what's at stake in the decisions the industry is making now? A foundation for everything that follows.

Aviation accounts for around 3% of global emissions, and the path to bringing that number down is anything but settled. Maria Hagelberg from Air France-KLM joins us in the studio to discuss what the industry is working with — sustainable aviation fuel, electric aircraft, operational efficiency — and how realistic each of these levers is on the timelines the sector is being held to.

Connecting power, heat, transport, and industry into a single integrated system is one of the most-discussed ideas in energy policy — and one of the hardest to actually pull off. Søren Schmidt Thomsen, Managing Director at Triangle Energy Alliance, walks us through what sector coupling means in practice, where the technical and regulatory barriers sit, and which combinations of policy and technology are moving the needle.

Innovation in energy doesn't happen in isolation — it leans heavily on the work coming out of universities and research institutions. Subham Sahoo joins us to discuss how academic research gets done, which institutions are shaping the field right now, and how collaborations with industry turn studies into deployable solutions. A look at the part of the value chain that rarely makes the headlines.

Technical analysis is well-established in equities and FX, but energy is a different beast — more volatile, more fragmented, more exposed to physical reality. Clive Lambert, founder of FuturesTechs, joins us to discuss how traders use chart patterns and indicators to spot opportunities and manage risk in power and gas markets, and where the method runs into its limits. Practical territory for anyone trading or analysing energy.

Most conversations about renewables skip the basics: how the energy system is actually wired together, and what changes when more of it runs on wind and sun. Christian Dahl Winther, author and Chief Energy Economist at the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, gives us the full picture — from grid fundamentals to where the renewable build-out is heading. A useful reset for anyone working in or around the sector.

Tim Greenwood, Managing Director at EEX, has watched the European energy exchange grow from a German start-up into a global platform. In this episode he walks us through the turning points — the early reluctance from banks, the mergers that defined the modern market, and the rise of algorithmic trading, including where the volumes sit today. A rare insider account of how the trading floor we know now came together.

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Batteries get most of the attention, but they're not built for storing energy across days or weeks. Nis Benn, CCO and co-founder of Hyme Energy, joins us to talk about molten salt as a storage medium - why salt, how the system actually works, and which industrial settings it fits best. We also get into the harder parts: the technical risks of scaling a pioneering technology, and what it would take for long-duration storage to shift how the market consumes energy in the first place.