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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In this podcast special we speak with two energy experts Rhys Stanwix and David Pearson. The cost of energy has dominated our own far-from-expert musings for the last few weeks. So we thought it might be an idea to pull in some expertise for a special about district heating, locational pricing, why we are stuck with such high prices, poor grid connections ,the march of the pylons across much of north eastern Scotland. Do we need the better connectivity or is this just horsing Scottish renewable energy south?
We tackle all these questions, and more, in an in depth and highly informative special.
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0:00.0 | Well, welcome to this energy special podcast, which Pat and I thought we should do because so often |
0:06.9 | big issues about energy are coming up. The row about locational pricing is just the latest one. In fact, |
0:14.9 | it's not the latest because as we speak, there's been some kind of deal done as a reset with the EU |
0:20.3 | and the UK. There's an energy component to that as well. Mind-blowing, we speak, there's been some kind of deal done as a reset with the EU and the UK. There's an |
0:21.6 | energy component to that as well. Mind-blowing, we thought. So let's get a couple of folk who do |
0:27.6 | really know what they're talking about for a special podcast. And those two people are. Dave Pearson, |
0:34.3 | who is Group Sustainable Development Director at Star Refrigeration Limited, which will make |
0:40.6 | you think fridges, what, but also visiting Professor Edinburgh and Napier and Director of Star Renewables |
0:47.9 | who produce neat pumps, right, probably before we go any further. Dave, what is your thing? |
0:54.7 | What is it you produce? |
0:56.1 | Well, the main business is industrial refrigeration, |
0:58.8 | so we could use the whole podcast talking about ice rinks or chilled chocolate puddings |
1:04.4 | or fish fingers and so on. |
1:06.3 | Data centers, big cooling is absolutely everywhere, |
1:09.5 | but I'm responsible for a bit of the business, |
1:12.5 | which looks at large heat pumps, tennis court-sized heat pumps, but also the data analytics |
1:18.4 | behind that, making sure they're running absolutely sweet and so on. But also internally, |
1:24.3 | our sustainability mission, we're absolutely determined to have the minimum possible, |
1:28.9 | if any, impact on the surrounding environment. So we've got to walk the walk. So two bits, |
1:34.7 | thinking out the way in one bit, thinking in the way. And I should say that we met Dave, |
1:39.2 | you and I a while ago when we discovered, I was making a film about Norway and discovered that your kit |
1:46.0 | was actually powering part of the city of Draman in Norway, a heat pump there, which kind of |
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