Time to Scale
by Cleantech for Europe
One Big Beautiful EU Geothermal Act? With Vice-President of the…
About this podcast
Hosted by Jules Besnainou, executive director of Cleantech for Europe, Time to Scale features in-depth conversations with the entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers driving Europe’s green reindustrialisation. Every episode welcomes a new guest who shares their personal journey, projects, challenges, and vision for the continent’s clean technology revolution. From green steel to renewable energy, the podcast explores the science, economics and politics shaping Europe’s industrial future, and the barriers to scaling cleantech across the continent.
Executive Producer: Natif podcast
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Episodes
- One Big Beautiful EU Geothermal Act? With Vice-President of the European Parliament Martin Hojsík and Geothermal Investor Torsten Kolind · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 2Europe’s energy system is under severe threat. Highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, the EU has paid tens of billions of added costs since the start of the US-Iran war. Its…
- What Can Cleantech Do for Europe's Security? With General Tom Middendorp · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 1From the invasion of Ukraine to heat waves, from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to the new China shock, the EU seems to time and again suffer through world events that it…
- Summit Special: To Lead or Not To Lead? · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 5One year into a new political mandate, the EU stands at a crossroads. Plagued by high energy costs, fragmented markets and Chinese overcapacity, European industry seems locked in…
- Dan Jørgensen: Can Cleantech fix Europe's Grids? · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 4The European energy system is under tremendous pressure, facing an ageing grid infrastructure, sky-high energy prices, hundreds of billions of euros of investment needed, and…
- Inside Parliament: A Conversation with MEP Lídia Pereira · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 3The 2024 EU elections reshaped the majorities in the European Parliament, with the conservative European People’s Party coming first and other centrist parties losing seats to…
- Can Green Hydrogen take off in Europe? · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 2Green hydrogen has been touted as a solution to almost every decarbonisation and energy security challenge in Europe. But can it match these expectations? In this episode of Time…
- 10 years on: from the Paris Agreement to the Cleantech Revolution · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 1Ten years after the Paris Agreement, Europe stands at a crossroads. Can it translate climate leadership into industrial strength? In this episode of Time to Scale, Jules…







