Challenges of Asset Management - Discussion with Adele Ara - Part 1

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On this interview, I am discussing with Mr Eric Bjonerud, Managing Director of Macquarie's Green Investment Group. Macquarie’s GIG is an established global player on renewable energy investments. Eric, is sharing with us his thoughts on why institutional investors are now willing to take development risk, what are the current bottlenecks on accelerating investments in Renewables and what are the important key criteria when they invest in new markets and development platforms. We also discuss about PPAs, the current energy crisis and the challenges in procurement and logistics. Filmed in Macquarie's Office Tower in London during the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Eric and I touch upon a controversial matter in the industry of CAPEX vs OPEX and share personal expectations from COP26 climate change conference.

During the Solar & Storage Live 2021 Exhibition, Wattcrop's Managing Partner Ypatios gave a presentation on Optimising & Digitalising Solar PV Project Development.  He presented and elaborated on Proven Strategies & Tools all developers should adopt to Maximise Solar PV Asset Value during the Development Phase, based on Wattcrop's experiences. You can also view the presentation on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdM6lWSLW1o

On this interview, I am discussing with Mr Jorg Heinemann, CEO of EnerVenue. Jorg, is sharing with us his insighs on Battery Storage and the develpments both from market and technologies perspective. EnerVenue, is a Unicorn Startup based in the USA, developing cutting edge energy storage techology for Utility Scale Applications. Filmed over a video call on Teams Jorg and I, are discussing about EnerVenue's journey the current state of the renewable and energy storage industries, developemtns in the battery storage and the challenges we face towards a decarbonised energy generating market environment.

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This second part of the interview, provides further insights on asset management and the challenges we face as an industry. Mrs Adele Ara, Director of Asset Management for Lightsource BP, offers freely many "gold nuggets" from her experience and remarkable career.

On this first part of the interview, I am discussing with Mrs Adele Ara, Director of Asset Management for Lightsource BP. A very interesting interview on the challenges of Asset Management, the current trends in the market, the need for standardisation and how the service provides must evolve to facilitate a new level of complexity on an ever maturing market environment.