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Inside EnergyBritain's Energy Market RevolutionTell Sid he started a revolution. The 1986 privatisation of British Gas kicked off a transformation of Britain's energy landscape, from state monopoly to competitive marketplace. With it, a need for strong regulation. Ofgem's Jenny Boothe and Akshay Kaul reveal the regulator’s story from its inception 25 years ago. Meanwhile, 2024 was Earth's hottest year, and carbon dioxide concentrations are rising faster than ever. Met Office scientist Dr Emily Wallace delivers stark truths on the climate crisis and how the energy industry needs to lead the way.Clare Nasir is joined in...
2025-11-2125 minInside EnergyThe Grid, Oil Crisis and DiversificationIn this episode, the pivotal decisions and explosive moments that shaped our energy system in the 20th Century. Built in recession, battle-tested in war, we learn about the foundation of the National Grid and how it came to provide energy to homes and businesses across Britain. We also hear how the OPEC Crisis of the mid-1970s caused oil prices to quadruple overnight and led to decisions to diversify energy production to reduce vulnerability. But with bills skyrocketing during the Russia-Ukraine war, have lessons been learned? And were these pa...
2025-11-1421 min
Flirting With A FishFlooding in Indian Cities Can Be Controlled: Solutions Explained | Ft. Akshay Kaul | Sonia Choksi | Flirting with a fishSend us a textFlooding will for sure become a major problem in our cities in maybe just 5 years! It can be stopped though.In this episode, expert Akshay Kaul shares practical simple do-able solutions. We discuss those really stupid reasons why we have come to this situation and well, why is the urban planning commission and architecture community not using the solutions that exist! Tune in to learn how we can we avoid seeing our car or our home drown away :( Listen now and please take action around you!
2024-11-081h 04
Energy Unplugged by AuroraEP.218 Akshay Kaul on Delivering a Grid for the Energy Transition in GBIn this episode of Energy Unplugged, we are delighted to welcome Akshay Kaul, Director General for Infrastructure at Ofgem. Akshay joins Tom Smout, Senior Associate in our GB Research team, for an in-depth discussion on building a grid ready to support the energy transition in Great Britain.
Akshay has been with Ofgem since 2017. Before his current role, he served as Director of Networks, overseeing the economic regulation of Great Britain’s energy networks. His responsibilities included developing the next generation of onshore network price controls (known as RIIO2), regulating offshore transmission infrastructure, and advancing an ambitious cross-border in...
2024-11-0535 min
Marketing ConnectEp 1. Rohit Kaul, HCLIn the first episode of this new season of Marketing Connect, we have Rohit Kaul, General Manager (Marketing), HCL Corporation.He is also an avid blogger and his blog ‘Seeking North’ delves deeper into the subjects of behavioural science and product management. He raved about the importance behavioural sciences hold in the marketing domain and not to miss – he gives excellent suggestions about how one can venture into this discipline.
2022-10-2159 min
Upgrade with NakulUpgrade with Aditya Raj Kaul through Stories of Heroic Journalism.As a kid everyone has a dream career, you know being an astronaut, scientist, a movie star... the list goes on. But very few actually follow it through. Aditya Raj Kaul isn’t one of them. He aspired to be a journalist & was deeply passionate about it - writing for school magazines and newspapers for a start! As he grew up he began as an activist. Strikes odd right? Because generally it is journalists who convert themselves into activist rather than the other way around. But perhaps Aditya is the...
2020-12-011h 32
India BookedIndia Booked | Bad Money in the Indian EconomyBad Money, the latest book of Vivek Kaul is an important title for the way its author discloses the history of the Indian Economy and Banking system we never knew about, and discusses why it is important to be aware of where your money goes. In this episode of India Booked, Ayushi Mona discusses with him what constitutes bad money, what the transition has been like from the banking systems in the past to the current ones, and how important is it to know where your money is safe and unsafe. In this episode, he also unfolds h...
2020-08-0834 min