Michael Bird

Well, Karim, thank you so much for joining us on Technology Now.

It's been a real pleasure.

Thank you.

Thank you, Michael, for having me.

As you know, I'm a bit of an energy nerd.

I do quite like thinking and talking about energy as a solar panel and battery owner.

So I found this episode, push some buttons for me.

And I think the big takeaway for me was just about the fact that we're using more energy, but the energy generation isn't necessarily growing with the demand.

And so there's a disconnect there.

So the energy has to come from somewhere.

Yeah.

And I think with everything that's been going on in the news over the last few weeks, I think energy sovereignty hit the headlines that not necessarily that phrase, but the concept of countries, organizations thinking, do we have enough, you know, are the energy costs going to go up so much that we have to make some decisions about whether we can afford to pay it?

And so the concept of energy sovereignty, I think is quite an interesting one.

And where I live in the UK, we have a lot of wind generation.

So today, the day we're recording is quite a windy day.

So I think at one point, 70% of our energy was being generated from wind power.

But the thing with that sort of energy is that it's quite spiky.

So you can get these like quite big peaks on windy days and then nothing on really calm days.

And what I joked in the episode was like the solar panels, but we're not renowned for sunny days in the UK.

And so you can't necessarily rely on either of those things.