“We look like an awfully innovative country. But all our innovation is designed in Pittsburgh and Chicago and Silicon Valley”
As he enters the sixth decade of his career in the energy industry, Eddie O’Connor is keen to open a new chapter with Supernode, the company he chairs and owns 50 per cent of. His plan is to transport energy over long distances from renewable generation areas like Ireland’s windswept seaboard to big urban demand centres across Europe. On this podcast, he takes Thomas Hubert from the geopolitical trends influencing climate action to the reality of technology deployment on the ground – and warns that obstacles to innovation in Ireland may force Supernode to emigrate.
