The EU Energy Projects Podcast

In this episode of the EU Energy Projects Podcast, host Jonathan Spencer Jones speaks with Stavros Stamatoukos, Policy Officer for Digitalisation and AI at DG Energy, about the EU’s growing framework of policy and legislative actions on AI and digitalisation in the energy sector.

Recorded during Enlit Europe 2025, this wide-ranging conversation offers rare insight into how policymakers are balancing innovation, regulation, and system security in Europe’s energy transition.

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In this episode of the EU Energy Projects podcast, Jonathan Spencer Jones hears from Eduard Escalona Zorita and Fernando Cassola how open-source space data can be used in the energy sector.

Over the course of less than a lifetime, space exploration has evolved from the launch of the first satellite to a multi-billion dollar/euro industry with ever increasing numbers of satellites providing round-the-clock services and scientific and other data on our Earth system.

As the data has become more sophisticated and diverse, it has attracted interest from multiple sectors for monitoring and management – not least in the energy sector with the increasing demands and complexity of the energy transition.

As the agency for the EU’s space programme, EUSPA provides a range of space-based services for public and private users, in particular based on the Copernicus Earth observation and Galileo global navigation programmes.

Ports are key hubs in the energy transition, at the heart of countries’ economies and with diverse energy users from heavy, energy intensive industries to small businesses and multiple transport types.

In this episode, Areti Ntaradimou speaks with Ivan Jimenez, President of the Port Authority of Bilbao about the BilbOPS project — a €115 million EU-backed initiative aiming to fully electrify the port by 2027, well ahead of regulatory deadlines, through a collaborative clean energy-sharing model.

In this episode of the EU Energy Projects Podcast Areti Ntaradimou is joined by Christos Christodoulou, coordinator of CABLEGNOSIS, a project developing next-generation power cable technologies to support Europe’s clean energy transition. From advanced materials to AI-based diagnostics, CABLEGNOSIS is helping build the reliable, renewable-ready grid that Europe needs for 2030 and beyond.

In this episode of the EU Energy Projects Podcast, Areti Ntaradimou had the pleasure of welcoming Mohaddeseh Maktabifard and José Luis Corrales Ciganda, both representing the inspiring 2Cool2Waste cluster; an initiative uniting EU-funded projects that transform waste heat from an overlooked by-product into a practical, clean-energy resource.

The discussion opened with Maktabifard briefly explaining what SEEDS, the project she coordinates, is about. Her description was a reminder of how much innovation is happening behind the scenes in our buildings. SEEDS pilots smart, cost-effective electrification solutions - hybrid heat pumps, building-integrated PV, advanced thermal and battery storage - across six European sites.

José Luis then introduced the two projects he represents: SynergyNet, which develops tools to optimise multi-energy systems, and Rewire, which focuses on thermally driven cooling technologies using waste or renewable heat. Hearing him describe the project’s progress, from preliminary sector analysis to detailed engineering at four demo sites, made the scale and complexity of these solutions feel very real.