If you wanted to build a standalone microgrid in Africa, powered by local renewable resources, and make it reliable enough to run a neonatal intensive care clinic, how would you do it? Work through a development bank like the World Bank to get funding? Work with the government in the host country to manage the funds and the project? Build it around lithium-ion batteries? Use Western contractors to do the installation?<\/p>\n
In this episode, we learn how Michael Liebreich, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, helped create a successful project in Sierra Leone by doing none<\/em> of those things. His experience is full of useful and surprising lessons, and offers a very interesting model for other aspiring renewable microgrid project developers. We\u2019ll also talk with him about his insights on energy transition as one of its veterans, including his experience in trying to transition London to use more electric transportation, as well as his views on career direction and diversity in the energy industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The best way to build a renewably-powered microgrid using foreign aid in Africa may be exactly the opposite of what you\u2019d expect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[9,638,28,636,637,634,80,93,635,633,64,384,367],"class_list":["post-2232","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-africa","tag-electric-buses","tag-evs","tag-france","tag-london","tag-michael-liebreich","tag-microgrids","tag-nuclear","tag-project-bo","tag-sierra-leone","tag-solar","tag-vc-summer","tag-vogtle","xen_guests-michael-liebreich"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n