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Enleashed's missions don't develop in isolation. This is where that thinking meets the outside world — interviews, structured debate, appearances on other people's shows and stages, and events — exposed to criticism, collaboration and better ideas.
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A Fair, Flexible, Zero-Waste Digital Electricity Market
EnergyOS
This conversation explores the thinking behind a fundamentally different electricity-market architecture: one designed around digital infrastructure, distributed assets, network constraints and fairness, rather than continually adding new mechanisms around a legacy market. The discussion connects Shaun Sweeney's PhD research with the wider Enleashed mission to ask a more fundamental question: if we were designing an electricity market today using modern computing, communications and control technology, would we design anything resembling the market we currently have?
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Enleashed on other people's podcasts, panels and stages.
Why Countries Are Losing Power and How to Fix the Grid
Doing Business with a Servant's Heart
In the last year, Spain and Portugal lost power across both countries for a full day, and Sri Lanka went dark too. This conversation explores why these blackouts are a warning sign, and why the way we pay for electricity was never built for the grid we have today. It runs from a sheep farm in rural Ireland to a PhD in energy pricing — how scholarships and mentors opened doors, and why that leaves 'a debt to repay' — through to why solar, wind and two-way power flows have changed how the grid works while the way we operate it hasn't caught up, and how electricity pricing was copied almost word for word from how wheat and copper were traded more than 170 years ago.
Seeing Energy as a Product
Power of the Many · Osborne Clarke Netherlands
A lecture given at Power of the Many, hosted at Osborne Clarke in the Netherlands, arguing that we should see energy as a product. What we have in electricity markets today is a historical commodity market — and it doesn't work. It doesn't deliver products, and it doesn't delight customers. The lecture argues that the real problem isn't technology: it's institutions, culture, architecture and leadership. Fixing it needs a Dumbledore's Army — people willing to train themselves, and each other, to do what the existing system won't.
Entrepreneurship 101: From Industry to Research-Led Entrepreneurship
Universal Podcast Network
Why would someone leave industry and return to academia to solve a problem? This conversation explores the path from working inside the energy sector to stepping outside its existing assumptions, undertaking a PhD and eventually founding Enleashed as a research-led initiative. It considers the tension between entrepreneurship and academic research, the role of first-principles thinking in tackling systemic problems, and how research can be turned into candidate solutions capable of being tested and ultimately deployed. The second half of the conversation focuses on electricity-market reform: why electricity-market architecture matters to ordinary households, how fairness can become a formal engineering and market-design objective, and what a fundamentally different relationship between households and the electricity system could look like.
Ideas should not merely be promoted. They should be exposed to challenge.
This isn't about broadcasting certainty. It's another part of the experiment. If an idea is wrong, we want to find out. If it can be improved, we want people capable of improving it involved. And if it survives scrutiny, we want to find the people and institutions capable of helping test it in the real world.
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