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Podcast: Energy Unplugged by Aurora
Episode: EP.271 - Flexibility, Batteries and the Future of Europe’s Power System
Description: This week on Energy Unplugged, Jesse Hetema, Aurora’s Head of the Netherlands and Belgium, is joined by Simon Bushell, Founder and CEO of Sympower, to explore why flexibility has become a critical pillar of Europe’s energy transition. They discuss how rising price volatility, negative prices and grid congestion are shifting the focus from pure decarbonisation towards system resilience, and why demand-side response and batteries are now essential to keeping renewable-heavy power systems stable and investable.
Simon founded Sympower in 2015 and has grown the company into a leading provider of flexibility services across Europe, with a stro...