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• Can Regulatory Reform Unlock the UK's Clean Energy Future with Georgina Mills (Ofgem)

  Want the latest news, analysis, and price indices from power markets around the globe - delivered to your inbox, every week?Sign up for the Weekly Dispatch - Modo Energy’s unmissable newsletterDelivering a decarbonised power system isn’t just about building more renewables and storage, it’s also about regulation. The rules that shape investment, protect consumers, and manage risk are critical to whether the UK can hit net zero on time.But regulation comes with trade-offs. How do you keep bills affordable while ensuring enough capital flows into clean infrastructure? How do you encourage innovation without compromising reliability? And how can Ofgem strike the right balance between investor certainty and consumer protection in a period of huge change?In this conversation, Ed speaks with Georgina Mills, Director of Energy Systems Management & Security at Ofgem about the regulator’s role in the UK’s energy transition. They discuss the frameworks that shape investment in networks, the need for agility in a fast-changing market, and what regulatory innovation might look like as we build a net zero system.Key topics covered include:Why regulation is central to delivering net zero on time.The trade-offs between consumer protection and investor certainty.How Ofgem is adapting frameworks to enable flexibility and innovation.The role of regulatory signals in unlocking clean energy investment.What the future of energy regulation could look like in a net zero world.About our guest Georgina Mills is Director of Energy Systems Management & Security at Ofgem, where she leads reform of network charging and facilitates low-carbon investment across Great Britain’s electricity system. With experience spanning regulatory roles in both the UK and New Zealand, Georgina oversees initiatives that balance consumer protection with system resilienceAbout Modo EnergyModo Energy helps the owners, operators, builders, and financiers of battery energy storage solutions understand the market - and make the most out of their assets.All of our interviews are available to watch or listen to on the Modo Energy site. To keep up with all of our latest updates, research, analysis, videos, conversations, data visualizations, live events, and more, follow us on LinkedIn. Check out The Energy Academy, our bite-sized video series breaking down how power markets work.

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• Why Energy Trading Must Evolve for the Renewable Era with Rasmus Rode Mosbæk (Hybrid Greentech)

  Want the latest news, analysis, and price indices from power markets around the globe - delivered to your inbox, every week?Sign up for the Weekly Dispatch - Modo Energy’s unmissable newsletter.As renewables take a larger share of the power mix, the need for flexibility in electricity markets has never been greater. But while the technology exists. From batteries and demand response to interconnectors the challenge lies in creating the right market structures and incentives to bring it all together.Today’s power markets were designed around centralised fossil generation. For flexibility to scale, they must evolve, ensuring that short-term trading, ancillary services, and long-term contracts all work in harmony. Without that, renewable integration will stall, and the cost of balancing the grid will rise.In this episode of Transmission, Quentin is joined by Rasmus Rode Mosbæk to explore the future of energy trading and flexibility markets. They discuss how market design can enable faster renewable integration, why transparency and liquidity matter, and what lessons can be drawn from other European systems. Over the course of the conversation, they discuss:Why flexibility is the missing piece in renewable integration.How market design shapes investment and innovation in storage.The growing role of short-term trading in balancing the grid.Lessons from European power markets on flexibility and liquidity.What’s needed to unlock the full potential of demand-side response.About our guestRasmus Rode Mosbæk is the CEO and Founder of Hybrid Greentech, a Danish software company specialising in intelligent energy storage solutions. With an MSc and PhD in energy systems, Rasmus combines deep technical expertise with commercial insight to deliver smarter ways of integrating renewables into the grid. At Hybrid Greentech, he leads the development of HERA, an AI-powered platform that optimises virtual power plants and battery storage, helping asset owners maximise revenues, extend asset lifetimes, and strengthen grid stability. For more information on Hybrid Greentech, head to their website.About Modo EnergyModo Energy helps the owners, operators, builders, and financiers of battery energy storage solutions understand the market - and make the most out of their assets.All of our podcasts are available to watch or listen to on the Modo Energy site. To keep up with all of our latest updates, research, analysis, videos, podcasts, data visualizations, live events, and more, follow us on LinkedIn. Check out The Energy Academy, our bite-sized video series breaking down how power markets work.

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• Alleviating grid stresses with virtual power plants, with Michael Lynch (Enel X)

  Want the latest news, analysis, and price indices from power markets around the globe - delivered to your inbox, every week?Sign up for the Weekly Dispatch - Modo Energy’s unmissable newsletter.Electricity grids worldwide need both the flexibility to adapt to renewable energy sources, and the resilience to cope with grid-stress events. Demand curtailment and other forms of demand-side response (DSR) play an increasingly fundamental role in supporting both these requirements, yet direct participation in these programmes can be complex, and is typically geared towards high-demand customers with single, centralised sites.However smaller, decentralised organisations can still unlock the benefits of DSR and provide a crucial grid service by working with an aggregator. By bringing multiple demand customers and sites together in a virtual power plant (VPP), aggregators help businesses of all sizes become major contributors to grid stability, without the challenges of managing individual enrolment themselves.In this episode, Michael Lynch, manager of Enel X’s global Network Operations Centre (NOC) in Dublin, joins Ed Porter to discuss the growing role of VPPs in helping stabilise global electricity grids. In conversation they discuss:The nature of VPPs, and the type of generation, storage and load-curtailment resources they aggregate. How VPPs respond to the requirements of grid and asset operators. The use of flexibility and automation in managing VPP performance. The need for resilience in the NOC to ensure a reliable and rapid response in volatile conditions – from shutdowns and outages, to extreme weather and earthquakes. The human dimension and skills set required to balance around 10 GW of flexibility services worldwide.The future of VPPs as they adopt more battery storage assets in EVs, homes and businesses.About our guestMichael joined Enel X Global Retail in 2020 from an airline operations control centre, where hegained hands-on experience planning, scheduling and managing disruptions in a fast-paced,high-pressure environment.Enel X Global Retail is Enel Group’s business line dedicated to customers around the world with the aim of effectively providing products and services based on their energy needs and encouraging them towards a more conscious and sustainable use of energy. Globally, it provides electricity, integrated and innovative energy services to more than 54 million customers worldwide, offering flexibility services aggregating 9.8 GW, managing around 3 million lighting points, and with 30,500 owned public charging points for electric mobility.For more information on what Enel X Global Retail does, head to its website at https://www.enelx.com/uk/en/About Modo EnergyModo Energy helps the owners, operators, builders, and financiers of battery energy storage solutions understand the market - and make the most out of their assets.All of our podcasts are available to watch or listen to on the Modo Energy site. To keep up with all of our latest updates, research, analysis, videos, podcasts, data visualizations, live events, and more, follow us on LinkedIn. Check out The Energy Academy, our bite-sized video series breaking down how power markets work.

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• Financing US Battery Storage: Tariffs, Tax Credits, & the Future of Clean Energy | Chris Taylor

  To get the latest on energy storage, market movements, and revenue indices, straight to your inbox every week, sign up the Weekly Dispatch.Want the latest news, analysis, and price indices from power markets around the globe - delivered to your inbox, every week?Sign up for the Weekly Dispatch - Modo Energy’s unmissable newsletterThe United States is at a pivotal moment in its energy transition. Massive policy shifts like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have unlocked unprecedented levels of clean energy investment, from wind and solar to hydrogen and carbon capture. But ambition alone doesn’t build projects the real challenge is how to finance, structure, and deliver gigawatts of new capacity at the speed net zero requires.Tax credits, long-term offtake structures, and regulatory frameworks will determine which projects attract capital and which stall in development. Add in the complexity of interconnection queues, supply chain constraints, and regional market rules, and it’s clear that capital deployment in the US clean energy sector is as complex as it is urgent.In this episode of *Transmission*, Quentin speaks with **Chris Taylor, CEO of GridStor**, to explore how capital is flowing into US energy storage, what investors are looking for, and why regulatory clarity is key to unlocking large-scale deployment. They discuss how storage fits into the wider clean energy build-out, and what it will take to turn climate ambition into bankable, shovel-ready projects.Key topics covered include: - How the Inflation Reduction Act is reshaping storage investment in the US.- Why interconnection queues are one of the biggest barriers to deployment.- What investors need to see to back large-scale storage projects.- The balance between federal incentives and private capital.- The impact of tariffs and domestic production incentives on supply chains.About our guestChris Taylor is the CEO of GridStor, a US-based developer focused on large-scale battery energy storage. With a career spanning energy investment, infrastructure, and project development, Chris brings deep expertise in how capital, policy, and technology intersect to accelerate the clean energy transition. At GridStor, he leads efforts to deliver gigawatt-scale storage projects that help balance the grid, integrate renewables, and provide critical flexibility to the power system. His perspective combines hands-on development experience with an investor’s eye for risk, regulation, and long-term value creation in the rapidly evolving US energy market. For more information on what GridStor do, head to their [website.](https://gridstor.com/)

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• Beyond the EV Hype: Why the Transition Needs Better Stories with Robert Llewellyn (Everything Electric)

  Want the latest news, analysis, and price indices from power markets around the globe - delivered to your inbox, every week?Sign up for the Weekly Dispatch - Modo Energy’s unmissable newsletter.Electric vehicles are no longer a niche technology. Costs are falling, ranges are increasing, and adoption is growing across the UK and beyond. But despite this progress, the EV transition is still battling misinformation, cultural resistance, and outdated narratives that slow down change.The problem isn’t just about technology, it’s about how the story is told. From charging infrastructure myths to debates over grid capacity, the way we talk about EVs has a direct impact on how fast people adopt them. To accelerate the shift, the industry needs clear communication, positive examples, and a willingness to challenge entrenched scepticism.In this episode of Transmission, Ed is joined by Robert Llewellyn - actor, writer, and founder of Everything Electric - to explore how storytelling, education, and culture are shaping the clean transport revolution. Together, they dig into why better narratives matter just as much as better batteries in driving the shift to zero-carbon mobility. Over the course of the conversation they discuss:⚡ Why EV myths still dominate the conversation and how to challenge them.⚡ The role of media and storytelling in accelerating adoption.⚡ How charging infrastructure is developing faster than public perception.⚡ Why the grid can cope with electrification and what still needs work.⚡ What’s next for EV culture as the transition goes mainstream.About our guestRobert Llewellyn is an actor, writer, presenter, and the creator of Everything Electric, one of the world’s leading channels dedicated to electric vehicles and clean energy. Best known to many as Kryten from Red Dwarf and host of Scrapheap Challenge, Robert has become a driving force in the public conversation around electrification and sustainability. Through Everything Electric (and Fully Charged before it), he has built a global platform that champions EV adoption, renewable power, and smarter energy systems making complex topics accessible and inspiring millions to engage with the transition to net zero. Find Robert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-llewellyn-0a43992b/?originalSubdomain=ukAbout Modo EnergyModo Energy helps the owners, operators, builders, and financiers of battery energy storage solutions understand the market - and make the most out of their assets.All of our podcasts are available to watch or listen to on the Modo Energy site. To keep up with all of our latest updates, research, analysis, videos, podcasts, data visualizations, live events, and more, follow us on LinkedIn. Check out The Energy Academy, our bite-sized video series breaking down how power markets work.

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