Conversations with the people building academia's energy transition.
How individual estates become one flexible network: connecting generation, storage and demand across institutions for collective shared value, and what a connected academic estate could look like over the next decade.
Buildings create more than 40% of global emissions, yet carbon registries struggle to keep pace. This episode maps BEClimate's four-part ecosystem, from verified mitigation units to AI carbon accounting, and why measured data now matters.
Ben Prior of Beyond Solar on the DfE story so far: the pause on PPA approvals, the Form E and Form A route to compliance, the template PPA and 150-school pilot still awaited, and the 35 questions Form E asks of every school.
After the hottest summer on record, over 850 UK schools closed for a day or more and sitting an exam at 32°C makes a pupil around 10% less likely to pass. This episode explores the Campaign for Action Against Overheating Classrooms and a low-cost window insulation application that makes individual classrooms cooler and safer, without the cost or disruption of retrofit.
