Best FORESIGHT Media Group Podcasts (2025)

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Industrial decarbonisation’s competitive edge 42:59

13h ago42:59

42:59

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Europe’s energy-thirsty industries are suffering from high power prices, are at risk of being outpaced by global competitors and need to decarbonise to meet the European Union’s green targets. The energy transition can help address a…

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Scandinavia’s secret success story 37:21

13d ago37:21

37:21

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Most of Finland’s electricity is sourced from carbon neutral energy sources as the country aims to go completely net-zero by 2035. So great are its decarbonisation ambitions that Finland wants to be carbon negative by 2050. Helena Sa…

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Trade and the transition under Trump 37:02

14d ago37:02

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Since his return to the White House, President Donald Trump has caused shock waves across global trade. On this episode of Watt Matters, Joseph Francois from the World Trade Institute joins the team to discuss the new trade paradigm …

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China’s impact on competitiveness 42:07

22d ago42:07

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. China is the world’s biggest emitter but also a key driver of the energy transition. The country is responsible for the biggest renewables rollout but also commissioned 70% of new coal capacity in 2024. The country has also been accu…

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Flexing our grids 55:43

25d ago55:43

55:43

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. A flexible grid underpins Europe’s energy transition and helps bring more renewables online. According to statistics from SolarPower Europe, it could also bring big benefits, including saving the European Union €30 billion and avoidi…

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Competitiveness and the energy transition 50:03

28d ago50:03

50:03

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Today’s uncertain geopolitical context and the economic power of the United States, China, and others mean Europe must find new ways to collaborate and compete in the global economy. By doing so, European countries can create jobs, e…

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Africa’s blank building canvas 26:39

1M ago26:39

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Buildings are at the heart of the energy transition. They soak up a lot of energy and spew out a lot of emissions. Improving the existing stock and making sure new builds are as green as possible is crucial to our global decarbonisat…

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Planning for any energy transition eventuality 34:42

2M ago34:42

34:42

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. The energy transition is becoming more and more complex, new technologies are coming online, old ways of sourcing power are becoming obsolete and geopolitics are tearing up the rulebook. That is why the ability to plan ahead, work th…

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Moving past hydrogen’s hype hangover 37:38

2M ago37:38

37:38

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Not all hydrogen is created equally and not all proposed uses for hydrogen deserve the time of day. Potential applications for the fuel are gradually becoming narrower and more targeted as policymakers and industry get serious about …

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Harnessing AI’s energy transition potential 33:07

3M ago33:07

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Artificial intelligence could make or break the energy transition. The massive data centres that provide AI’s computational power will need to increase in number, which will result in a spike in energy demand. But the benefits that A…

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Staying warm and keeping cool in 2025 26:38

3M ago26:38

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Heating our homes and cooling our casas is a vital part of everyday life that is often taken for granted. We expect heat and, increasingly, demand cooling. But the energy needs and carbon footprint of heating and cooling are huge. Bo…

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Energy in 2030: Can we live up to the challenge? 29:37

4M ago29:37

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. The energy transition is gaining momentum. For our Watt Matters series on Energy in 2030, we’ve seen growing interest in new ways to decarbonise our world and tackle climate change. We’ve looked at carbon removals, industrial electri…

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Africa’s energy ‘transformation’ 33:44

5M ago33:44

33:44

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. The 54 countries that make up Africa face some of the same energy and climate challenges as nations in the Americas, Europe and Asia, but in many cases the hurdles and obstacles are more varied and more difficult to overcome. Climate…

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Enabling renewables through digitalisation 34:21

5M ago34:21

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Digitalisation holds big benefits for energy systems, including allowing more renewables to be integrated and providing a picture of what’s happening across the entire system without requiring any physical upgrades. When it comes to …

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Renewable energy’s forgotten source 26:42

5M ago26:42

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. More than half of the world’s total supply of renewable energy is provided by bioenergy, a fact often forgotten in energy transition debates. Its contribution to sectors like heating is, in particular, an integral part of the energy …

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Cleaning the atmosphere of carbon 53:18

5M ago53:18

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Carbon removals technologies go beyond the more traditional carbon capture or tree-planting. They look at how to draw carbon directly out of the air so it can no longer cause the damaging greenhouse effect. Research into this area is…

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Waste not, want not 30:53

6M ago30:53

30:53

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Waste-to-energy power generation in Europe is not insignificant. More than 5 gigawatts of capacity is installed and there are plans in some countries to add more. The negative impact on the environment, climate and human health is we…

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Increasing industrial electrification 46:28

6M ago46:28

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Electrifying as many sectors as possible will play a significant role in reducing emissions to net zero by mid-century. While many industrial processes can be easily switched to an electricity-based system, some are proving more diff…

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Three tasks for the energy transition 46:31

6M ago46:31

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. We ask every guest who enters the Watt Matters studio to look into their crystal ball and give their vision of the energy sector in ten-to-twenty years. Their answers are often aspirational but always revealing. Many market observers…

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Keeping the lid on the climate Pandora’s Box 35:17

6M ago35:17

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Emission reductions are the primary way to address climate change. But if the international community is not able to slash greenhouse gases quickly enough or if leftover emissions persist, then the climate may still need a helping ha…

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Decarbonisation’s invisible tool 48:24

6M ago48:24

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. By minimising our energy needs, we can accelerate our journey to net zero, making the energy transition not only quicker but also more affordable. The COP28 climate negotiations in 2023 saw the successful “triple-up, double-down” cam…

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Heat from below our feet 38:23

6M ago38:23

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Wind and solar energy tend to be the main focus when we talk about renewable energy, but geothermal energy also offers many benefits; it is a constant energy source and offers the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling. Ground-…

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Who you gonna call? CO2-busters! 36:25

6M ago36:25

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is set to be big business in the coming years. Johan Börje joins the show to explain what is needed to scale carbon removals up and what challenges need to be overcome. Carbon removals will be crucial…

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2030’s household transformation 44:47

7M ago44:47

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The energy transition needs to happen across society, including in our homes. Big shifts are expected in consumer demand and the technology we use, including electric vehicles and heat pumps. To make the transition a success, it’s key that these elements work in the real world, and that households are involved in the transition and experience the b…

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Building up to 2030 45:28

7M ago45:28

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Last year’s COP28 climate conference saw some big pledges, including tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency by 2030 and agreeing to transition away from fossil fuels. With COP29 and COP30 on the horizon, it’s important to look at what is needed in the run-up to 2030 to get the world on track to meet its energy and climate goals. How wil…

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Riding out the rough bump in the EV road 35:36

7M ago35:36

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Transport’s electrification is gathering pace but it’s not quick enough for some. 2024 has been branded a disappointing year for EV sales and some have even suggested that this is the beginning of a dip. But is this true? Or is 2024 …

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How to build a wind farm 32:41

7M ago32:41

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Look out of a plane window when you are flying over the sea or peer at the horizon from a ferry these days and chances are good that you will see giant wind turbine blades looming out of the deep. Offshore wind is generating more and…

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Rise of the climate court cases 44:21

8M ago44:21

44:21

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Global climate action is not restricted to protesting in the streets. Legal courts are increasingly playing a bigger role in the fight for a decarbonised world. As cases against companies and even governments are becoming more common…

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Giving renewables an extra helping hand 33:05

9M ago33:05

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Renewables are going from strength to strength in many European countries. Everyone is making some sort of progress towards their targets but if current trends continue, the EU will fall short of its benchmarks. That is why there are…

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At the farmers carbon market 39:44

10M ago39:44

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Farming emissions are not falling at the same rate that they are in sectors like power generation or industry. Complex factors like land-use change and livestock emissions make agriculture’s carbon footprint a difficult beast to tame. Factors like food production, geopolitics and strong cultural ties almost make an already complex decarbonisation c…

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Great British Clean Tech 30:03

10M ago30:03

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Clean technologies are the indispensable hardware of the energy transition. Whether its wind turbines, grid components or futuristic fusion power, without clean tech, we won’t get anywhere. The United Kingdom has proven itself to be an attractive place to develop and scale up clean technologies but the sector has begun to lose momentum and stagnate…

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Tearing down circular construction barriers 52:37

10M ago52:37

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A circular approach, which disconnects economic activity from the ever-increasing consumption of natural resources, has emerged as a key strategy for making our societies more sustainable and helping mitigate the climate crisis. Circularity is particularly important for our built environment, as construction and renovation sites alone currently gen…

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Democratising carbon markets 34:15

11M ago34:15

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Parts of the world that have introduced some form of carbon pricing have been able to disconnect their emissions from economic growth, thanks largely to the polluter-pays principle. But there is somewhat of a disconnect between carbon markets and the most important part of the energy transition: consumers. So is it possible to democratise emissions…

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Material changes 43:33

11M ago43:33

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As Europe progresses towards achieving a climate-neutral economy by 2050, the concept of circularity has emerged as a powerful approach to reducing emissions, minimising waste and promoting sustainability. Adopting a more circular economy entails Europe transitioning from its linear economic model of producing, consuming, and disposing of materials…

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Preparing Europe’s grid for tomorrow 28:39

11M ago28:39

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Grids are a key part of Europe’s energy system but they need a massive overhaul to be ready for the growth in renewables and electricity demand expected up to 2050. Kristian Ruby joins the Policy Dispatch to look at the current situa…

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Parliamentary language 49:13

11M ago49:13

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With the latest round of elections for the European Parliament just around the corner, and the formation of a new Commission following closely behind, issues around the energy sector are at the forefront of political discourse. Joining us on Watt Matters this week to discuss how the next era of European lawmakers could approach decarbonisation effo…

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District heating: a European champion? 31:45

12M ago31:45

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Heating soaks up a huge amount of energy demand and is responsible for an equally significant amount of carbon emissions. Technology likes heatpumps and more efficient buildings are starting to have an impact on both accounts. Bankwatch Network’s Morgan Henley, the group’s head of EU heating decarbonisation campaigning, joins the Policy Dispatch to…

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To boldly go… 34:26

1y ago34:26

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. ‘Impossible’ is not in the vocabulary of Swiss explorer and environmentalist Bertrand Piccard. He was the first person to fly non-stop around the world in a hot air balloon and the first to do the same in a solar-powered plane. Picca…

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A satellite-eye view of methane emissions 44:20

1y ago44:20

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Addressing methane emissions is key if the world is to succeed in limiting global warming and preventing drastic climate change. In the short-term, it is significantly more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. But to properly…

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Winds from far far away 35:43

1y ago35:43

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Wind power in Europe continues to set records. Concerns over supply chains and geopolitical issues have posed challenges but have not derailed progress. Developments in the North Sea continue at a great pace but it is not Europe’s on…

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Solar’s rooftop revolution 37:16

1y ago37:16

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Currently, 10-25% of EU buildings host solar panels and the rooftop market continues to grow. It could see another boost as Europe agrees new support for the industry. This includes the new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, …

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Fine-tuning the future of electric cars 44:51

1y ago44:51

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Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android. Electrification of road transport has asserted itself as the leading decarbonisation for four-wheeled vehicles. Manufacturers are investing billions in new EV models and governments are following suit with the infrastructure needed t…

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Renewables steam ahead in Europe 49:53

1y ago49:53

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Record falls in fossil fuels and record levels of renewables - Sarah Brown from think tank Ember joins the Watt Matters team to discuss Europe’s latest electricity stats The EU’s electricity transition is in full swing Ember’s European Electricity Review 2024 concludes. The report celebrates new records, including a record fall in both fossil gener…

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Indonesia, a captive of coal 33:25

1y ago33:25

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Indonesia is the world’s eighth biggest polluter and one of the most populous countries on Earth. Its energy system is largely reliant on coal and its economy is propped up by mass exports of the polluting fossil fuel. But there is appetite to break coal’s hold over Indonesia’s energy future. A $20 billion partnership between the island nation and …

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Not the end of the world 51:37

1y ago51:37

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From climate change to air pollution, there are a lot of issues that need solving in the 21st century. With all the doom and gloom, it’s hard to see that some progress has actually been made. Hannah Ritchie is a researcher and deputy editor at the University of Oxford’s Our World In Data publication. Her new book “Not the End of the World: How We C…

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The tides are high 38:50

1y ago38:50

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The majority of countries around the world have some sort of coastline. That means that they have access to natural resources that could soon make a substantial impact on the energy transition: waves and tides. Water is a proven energy source: countries with the right geography have used hydropower to generate green electricity for decades. Now the…

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Decarbonising amid geopolitical tensions 57:40

1y ago57:40

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The energy transition is taking place in a complex world of ongoing historic geopolitical tensions and financial divides between countries. Lisa Fischer from climate think tank E3G joins the Watt Matters team to discuss decarbonisation policymaking in a complicated and adversarial world. The world needs to decarbonise if it is to limit drastic glob…

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Looking back at COP28 41:24

1+ y ago41:24

41:24

COP28 generated plenty of headlines during the two weeks it ran. Emission pledges, new alliances, policy agreements, informal deals and various other announcements flooded the airwaves and email inboxes. Add in the emotional aspect that is now a hallmark of top level climate talks and you would be forgiven for finding the whole thing an overwhelmin…

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2024: The year of elections 50:14

1+ y ago50:14

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2024 is likely to be the year of elections, with just under half of the world’s population expected to head to the polls, according to Bloomberg. That includes major players in energy and climate, like the US, India, the EU and, potentially, the UK. These elections will take place in a world where the climate crisis and the energy transition are be…

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Rewiring US Customer Relationships 54:07

1+ y ago54:07

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The US’ electricity system is complicated, with each of the 50 states setting its own rules for how markets work, how power is priced and who manages customer relations.But amid the complexity, Octopus Energy US sees a big opportunity to continue its UK success story across the pond and help US customers benefit from decarbonised electricity.Accord…

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