Why Countries Are Losing Power and How to Fix the Grid
Doing Business with a Servant's Heart· hosted by Steve Ramona· 4 November 2026
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.
Why this conversation matters
Large-scale blackouts make the cost of an outdated market architecture visible to everyone, not just engineers and policymakers. This conversation connects those failures to the underlying design of electricity markets, and to Enleashed's mission to take research off the shelf and into the hands of policymakers.
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