To record this week’s podcast, Eddie O’Connor welcomes me to Nova UCD, where Supernode’s team is located pending their move to a new facility it has just leased near Dublin’s Red Cow. Not only has the team been expanding, with O’Connor saying the company recruited 25 “very, very brilliant” people this year – additional space will also allow them to test the technology they are developing to transport electricity over long distances. A start-up hub on a college campus may be an unlikely location to meet the former boss of large corporations like Bord na Móna, Airtricity and Mainstream Renewables.…