In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue has a candid conversation with Monica Collings, newly appointed Chair of POWERful Women and recent recipient of an OBE, about the pressing need for greater gender diversity in the UK energy sector.

Collings highlights the encouraging and disappointing results of POWERful Women's 2025 State of the Nation Report, and explains why deep structural change is needed to get the UK power sector's diversity strategy back on track.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• How POWERful Women is tracking on its mission to achieve 40% of energy sector leadership and middle management roles to be held by women by 2030;
• The standout results from POWERful Women's State of the Nation report;
• How a lack of diversity is impacting the UK's energy sector;
• How to attract and retain talented women with a supportive workplace culture;
• Whether DEI needs to be reframed to achieve more;
• Why diversity in leadership is good for business and critical for the energy transition.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks to Per Löfberg, Senior Project Manager at charging solutions scale-up Elonroad, to find out more about how charging innovation is helping to drive electrification.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• The challenges facing e-mobility in Europe and limitations posed by the grid infrastructure and battery dependency;
• How Elonroad's innovation is using conductive electric roads to enable on-the-go charging;
• The differences between indictive and conductive charging;
• Why road electrification holds great promise for port decarbonisation in particular;
• Why the US, Sweden, France and Singapore are exploring e-mobility innovation like electric roads;
• The popular use cases being explored for deployment of these systems;
• Addressing regulatory and investment gaps hindering development of e-mobility innovation;
• What's next for Elonroad on its innovation journey.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks with John Ahlberg, Founder of nuclear scale-up Kärnfull, about the polarised opinions concerning Swedish nuclear energy and whether this divide still exists. Ahlberg also highlights the game changing technologies and business models that are building confidence in the sector.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• Why nuclear energy is a controversial topic in Sweden;
• Why the government is warming up to nuclear energy;
• What technology options are most likely going to materialise in the country;
• New business models that could influence the future development of the sector;
• The challenges and pressure points in the region's electrification journey and the role of nuclear in mitigating these.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks to Linda Wennberg, Agile Unit Leader Sustainable Energy at ABB's Smart Power Division, about how to foster innovation through effective partnerships.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• The challenges and opportunities around innovation in energy;
• Why acceleration and scalability are important to make the most of the opportunities to innovate;
• Why companies that can quickly scale their innovations gain a competitive edge;
• How to innovate in a sector where product lifecycles are decades long;
• How the need for speed is changing the way engineers work on energy transition solutions;
• The partnerships that ABB Smart Power has invested in to accelerate innovation;
• The main technology/innovation trends that will have the biggest impact on the energy transition.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with ABB’s Sustainable Energy Unit

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In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks to Alex Robertson, newly appointed CEO of ENERGYNEST, about why he believes power-to-heat technology is more than just hot hair and holds genuine promise for Europe's pathway to industrial decarbonisation.

He also explains why the switch from gas to electrification is less daunting and more intuitive than we might think.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• Why power-to-heat is an effective way to decarbonise the energy system, providing flexibility and heat when and where needed;
• How the industrial mindset is shifting from being gas consumers to actively participating in the electricity market;
• The applications where power-to-heat is having the biggest impact;
• The infrastructure requirements to implement a power-to-heat solution and the cost implications involved;
• Challenges to overcome in terms of implementing these solutions; such as intermittent renewables, heat storage requirements and the need to reach high temperatures for some industrial processes;
• The importance of these solutions for industrial competitiveness in Europe;
• The maturity of these solutions and potential for innovation and efficiency improvements;
• Why power to heat is a good compliment for renewable energy.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions Podcast, Pamela Largue spoke with two experts on the front lines of recruitment, Alison Lowry, founder of STEM Select and Tom Essex, founder of KIGYO, to find out how to tackle the workforce challenges from the ground up.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• How to move from planning to action when it comes to solving workforce challenges;
• Why transferable skills are still underutilised and how to change that;
• How to ensure we attract more women and other underrepresented groups;
• The role of governments in fostering more effective recruitment;
• What educational institutions need to do to address skills gaps and headcount challenges;
• The need for more attractive vocational training programmes to boost the net-zero workforce;
• Why reskilling programmes are critical to ensuring a sustainable energy transition;
• Why collaboration between stakeholders might be the greatest asset in solving this challenge.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue finds out more about how to tap into EVs as a source of flexibility by speaking with Gabrielle Clark, Energy and Climate Policy Officer at Eurelectric and Andrew Horstead, Global Power & Utilities Lead Analyst at EY.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• How EVs in Europe could unlock 114TWh of battery capacity for grid flexibility;
• The current EV uptake in Europe and how customers and prosumers perceive the value of EVs;
• Barriers to unlocking flexibility with EVs, such as double taxation, lack of smart meters and insufficient charging infrastructure;
• How to maximise the value proposition of EVs for all stakeholders and why there's a positive outlook for total cost of ownership;
• How to raise awareness and incentivise drivers to become active players in the electricity market;
• The importance of aligning market-specific policy and technical action across Europe;
• Why standardisation in V2G compatibility and data exchange are critical.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks to Faustine Delasalle, Executive Director Industrial Transition Accelerator and CEO of Mission Possible Partnership, to highlight the pros and cons of Europe's Clean Industrial Deal and to understand whether the policies it contains will address the fragility of European industry.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• The current fragile state of Europe's industries in light of the energy crisis and the need for rapid decarbonisation;
• The main pillars of the Clean Industrial Deal, designed to reshore and revitalise industrial activities;
• Potential policy pitfalls and gaps still to be addressed;
• The importance of reducing energy costs for energy-intensive industries;
• Why Europe might not be best placed to produce large amounts of clean energy and will need to look abroad to the likes of India, North Africa and the Middle East;
• The importance of creating markets for made-in-Europe clean commodities;
• Why industrial decarbonisation doesn't necessarily equal greater competitiveness for European industry;
• Why there is optimism about reaching a point where clean industry will be the new normal for Europe.