ENODA’s Founder and Chief Technology & Product Officer, Andrew Scobie, begins a new series, looking at the science, philosophy and economics behind why ENODA exists, and the fundamental importance of its technology.

I think about what is required to be successful in energy from an innovator’s, or entrepreneur’s perspective. And the principle applies to many other sectors. When you see a problem that people need a solution to, and you have a solution to that problem, sometimes it’s better not to see all the hurdles to delivery or else some wouldn’t dare.

ENODA provides a system which is agnostic to the nature of supply and demand. To do that though, there needs to be one fundamental enabling technology. It has to sit in the location of the transformer just as the router sits in the former location of switch in telephone exchanges, and they both transform the nature of those networks.

The COP28 climate summit opens in today, yet it is already clear that the world is not on track to meet the climate change targets that governments set themselves in Paris in 2015.

A review of the PreCOP28 panel discussion on “Energy grids and the electricity system in the face of the challenges of transformation”. What were the key takeaways? How can technology and systems thinking deliver the solution to the energy trilemma?

The International Energy Agency (IEA), European Central Bank (ECB) and European Investment Bank (EIB), recently laid out the intellectual justification for an EU alternative to the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Two clear themes emerged, but what do they argue should be done?