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  1. consulting

    The fractional CTO playbook: what four hours a week actually buys you

    Four hours a week is enough to fix architecture, hiring, and roadmap if you spend it on the right things, and useless if you spend it reviewing pull requests.

    6 min read
  2. Green Energy in Europe: We Built It. Now Comes the Hard Part.

    Sometime in 2025, Europe quietly crossed a line that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Wind and solar generated more electricity

    7 min read
  3. Vertical Farming: Tech-driven solutions for sustainable food production

    If you've spent any time in climate tech, you've probably noticed that energy and transport get most of

    4 min read
  4. EV Battery Innovations: Solid-state batteries and their commercial viability

    tl;dr - Solid-state batteries have been "five years away" for a decade. In 2026, that's actually starting

    6 min read
  5. IoT in Energy Monitoring: Smart Meters and the Consumer Engagement Problem Nobody Talks About

    We've been putting "smart" in front of "meter" for over a decade now. Utilities across Europe

    4 min read
  6. Building Decarbonization: Smart buildings and energy efficiency tech

    tl;dr Buildings account for roughly 40% of global energy-related emissions. Most of that is operational - heating, cooling, lighting - and most

    8 min read
  7. V2G Technology: How electric vehicles are becoming mobile power plants

    EVs aren't just loads on the grid. With bidirectional charging, they're distributed storage - capable of supporting your home,

    6 min read
  8. Virtual Power Plants: Aggregating distributed energy resources

    There's a quiet revolution happening on the grid. Millions of small energy assets - rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers,

    5 min read
  9. AI in Predictive Maintenance: Reducing downtime across industries

    tl;dr: Every unplanned hour of downtime costs an auto plant roughly $1.3M. AI-driven monitoring can cut those surprise outages

    5 min read
  10. We should use more energy*.

    *...specifically, more clean energy - and more of it used well. We need to use more renewables. Not less electricity. More. I know

    3 min read
  11. Generalist in the age of AI

    tl;dr I spent 15+ years feeling like a fraud because I knew a bit of everything and mastered nothing. Turns out,

    2 min read
  12. Smart Traffic Management: AI-powered systems for urban mobility

    Every morning, millions of Europeans waste 45 minutes sitting in traffic that AI could have prevented. Not with flying cars or hyperloops - just with traffic lights that actually know what's happening on the streets.

    5 min read