It is 8.30 in the morning in Bilbao, the northern Spanish city where Simon Phelan had travelled to attend the two-day Energy Tech Summit, along with over 1,000 other leaders gathered to discuss new ways of tackling climate change and making energy usage more efficient. The Dubliner is familiar with the city as his wife is from there so he is staying in her grandmother’s apartment when we speak on a video call.  Phelan is the founder of Hometree, a fast-growing innovative residential energy services company that offers British households a one-stop-shop to decarbonise their homes and reduce their energy…

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