Tom Pakenham's guest appearances

Tom Pakenham

House Planning Help Podcast

Leaders in Cleantech

The Greener Tech Podcast

Robert Llewellyn

John Butler

John Palmer

Cesar Abeid

Ben Adam-Smith

Martin Holladay

Greg Jackson

Jeff Bishop

Tara Murphy

Doug Campbell

Craig Evans

Helen Brown

Dan Goldman

Lisa Ann

Barbara Jones

OwlTail

This week Charles is joined by Tom Pakenham, MD of ChargeLight. Tom is a founder, executive and investor specialising in e-mobility, smart energy, cleantech and business.  Charging your electric vehicle should be cheap and easy whether or not you have off-street parking. By using the existing lamppost infrastructure, ChargeLight is bringing reliable, convenient and low-cost charging to the streets of Britain. Experience from around the world shows that when you install electric vehicle chargers, drivers are happy to make the switch to electric. ChargeLight agree that “if you build it, they will come”, which is why they offer fully funded lamppost charge points to local authorities. Better for EV owners, better for local councils and better for the environment! For more information on ChargeLight visit: https://chargelight.co.uk/ We cover: Tom’s impressive career journey Changes in the Green Tech space over the years Green technology advancements What are the green credentials of ChargeLight? Advice for a young founders and/or business owners This podcast is proudly sponsored by Down To Earth Recruitment, leaders in clean tech and ethical developments. For information on career opportunities with ethical companies please visit: https://www.d2e.io  

This week Charles is joined by Tom Pakenham, MD of ChargeLight. Tom is a founder, executive and investor specialising in e-mobility, smart energy, cleantech and business.  Charging your electric vehicle should be cheap and easy whether or not you have off-street parking. By using the existing lamppost infrastructure, ChargeLight is bringing reliable, convenient and low-cost charging to the streets of Britain. Experience from around the world shows that when you install electric vehicle chargers, drivers are happy to make the switch to electric. ChargeLight agree that “if you build it, they will come”, which is why they offer fully funded lamppost charge points to local authorities. Better for EV owners, better for local councils and better for the environment! For more information on ChargeLight visit: <a href="https://chargelight.co.uk/ " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://chargelight.co.uk/ </a>We cover: <ul><li>Tom’s impressive career journey </li><li>Changes in the Green Tech space over the years </li><li>Green technology advancements </li><li>What are the green credentials of ChargeLight? </li><li>Advice for a young founders and/or business owners  </li></ul>This podcast is proudly sponsored by Down To Earth Recruitment, leaders in clean tech and ethical developments. For information on career opportunities with ethical companies please visit: <a href="https://www.d2e.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.d2e.io</a>

Tom Pakenham from ChargeLight. Bringing reliable and low-cost EV charging to the streets of Britain.

What’s it all about?Tom is one of those, like me, that tried to bring business acumen to a very nascent, and very hippy, clean and renewable energy sector in the UK in the late 2000’s. His journey, passion and drivers are fascinating to share, as is the story of Kaluza, a company really creating the Internet of Energy (IoE), across a range of domestic devices, proving new incomes and opportunities for businesses and consumers. Take a listen.About our guestTom Pakenham is Director of Electric Vehicles at Kaluza, OVO Group’s intelligent energy platform. Driving the transition to a distributed, zero-carbon energy system, the Kaluza platform is able to securely connect millions of smart devices and create mass flexibility, helping offset costly and carbon-intensive peaks. Tom plays a crucial role in scaling this unique technology across the fast-growing electric vehicle market.Before Kaluza, Tom helped lead OVO Energy’s transition from a pure kWh retail business into a diversified energy services company. In 2017 he spearheaded the launch of OVO’s ‘EV Everywhere’ energy bundle and developed industry-leading smart charging propositions for customers. Tom also developed strategic partnerships with key players including Chargemaster, the UK’s biggest provider of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Indra Renewable Technologies, and ChargedEV.Prior to OVO, Tom founded greentomatocars in 2006 - the world’s first low emission taxi company, which he sold to global transport conglomerate Transdev. After selling greentomatocars, Tom launched greentomatoenergy - an energy efficiency and micro-renewables business - which was acquired by a private equity firm in 2013. After this, Tom led the Business Development and Innovation team at Transdev Plc. Tom graduated from Cambridge University with a History MA and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from BPP Law School. He is a qualified solicitor.About KaluzaOur mission is to securely connect all devices to an intelligent zero carbon gridKaluza is an intelligent energy platform able to connect and control millions of smart devices across people’s homes, such as electric vehicles, heaters and batteries. The machine learning platform introduces new flexibility into the energy system by optimising individual devices to use energy during off-peak hours, when costs and carbon are lower. An OVO Group company, Kaluza operates end-to-end, providing software, hardware and in-home installation services to a range of partners and is driving the global transition to a distributed and secure, zero-carbon grid. GUEST LINKSKaluza on twitter: https://twitter.com/Kaluza_techKaluza on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaluza/Tom Pakenham on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tom_pakenhamTom Pakenham on  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-pakenham-7424b3/Kaluza home page: https://www.kaluza.com/EPISODE LINKS Small is Beautiful – EF Schumacher - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Beautiful-Economics-People-Mattered/dp/0099225611The Story of Stuff – Animations - https://storyofstuff.org/Follow us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.Twitter https://twitter.com/weekincleantech Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thisweekincleantech/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/davidhunt2013/

What’s it all about?Tom is one of those, like me, that tried to bring business acumen to a very nascent, and very hippy, clean and renewable energy sector in the UK in the late 2000’s. His journey, passion and drivers are fascinating to share, as is the story of Kaluza, a company really creating the Internet of Energy (IoE), across a range of domestic devices, proving new incomes and opportunities for businesses and consumers. Take a listen.About our guestTom Pakenham is Director of Electric Vehicles at Kaluza, OVO Group’s intelligent energy platform. Driving the transition to a distributed, zero-carbon energy system, the Kaluza platform is able to securely connect millions of smart devices and create mass flexibility, helping offset costly and carbon-intensive peaks. Tom plays a crucial role in scaling this unique technology across the fast-growing electric vehicle market.Before Kaluza, Tom helped lead OVO Energy’s transition from a pure kWh retail business into a diversified energy services company. In 2017 he spearheaded the launch of OVO’s ‘EV Everywhere’ energy bundle and developed industry-leading smart charging propositions for customers. Tom also developed strategic partnerships with key players including Chargemaster, the UK’s biggest provider of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Indra Renewable Technologies, and ChargedEV.Prior to OVO, Tom founded greentomatocars in 2006 - the world’s first low emission taxi company, which he sold to global transport conglomerate Transdev. After selling greentomatocars, Tom launched greentomatoenergy - an energy efficiency and micro-renewables business - which was acquired by a private equity firm in 2013. After this, Tom led the Business Development and Innovation team at Transdev Plc. Tom graduated from Cambridge University with a History MA and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from BPP Law School. He is a qualified solicitor.About KaluzaOur mission is to securely connect all devices to an intelligent zero carbon gridKaluza is an intelligent energy platform able to connect and control millions of smart devices across people’s homes, such as electric vehicles, heaters and batteries. The machine learning platform introduces new flexibility into the energy system by optimising individual devices to use energy during off-peak hours, when costs and carbon are lower. An OVO Group company, Kaluza operates end-to-end, providing software, hardware and in-home installation services to a range of partners and is driving the global transition to a distributed and secure, zero-carbon grid. GUEST LINKSKaluza on twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Kaluza_techKaluza" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Kaluza_techKaluza</a> on Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaluza/Tom" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaluza/Tom</a> Pakenham on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tom_pakenhamTom" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/tom_pakenhamTom</a> Pakenham on Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-pakenham-7424b3/Kaluza" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-pakenham-7424b3/Kaluza</a> home page: <a href="https://www.kaluza.com/EPISODE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kaluza.com/EPISODE</a> LINKS Small is Beautiful – EF Schumacher - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Beautiful-Economics-People-Mattered/dp/0099225611The" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Beautiful-Economics-People-Mattered/dp/0099225611The</a> Story of Stuff – Animations - <a href="https://storyofstuff.org/Follow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://storyofstuff.org/Follow</a> us online, write a review (please) or subscribeI'm very keen to hear feedback on the podcast and my guests, and to hear your suggestions for future guests or topics. Contact via the website, or Twitter. If you do enjoy the podcast, please write a review on iTunes, or your usual podcast platform, and tell your cleantech friends about us. That would be much appreciated.Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/weekincleantech" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/weekincleantech</a> Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thisweekincleantech/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/thisweekincleantech/</a> Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/davidhunt2013/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/davidhunt2013/</a>

Tom Pakenham, OVO/Kaluza – Episode 34

Tom Pakenham from Green Tomato Energy describes the practical challenges of making a Victorian house energy efficient. Plus how passive house principles helped a Norwegian explorer in the 1890s.

Tom Pakenham from <a href="http://www.greentomatoenergy.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Green Tomato Energy</a> describes the practical challenges of making a Victorian house energy efficient. Plus how passive house principles helped a Norwegian explorer in the 1890s.

HPH008 : Retrofitting a Victorian House to Passivhaus Standard #1 - with Tom Pakenham from Green Tomato Energy