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Marc Eglon

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US renewables just surpassed coal

In April, US Renewable energy capacity surpassed coal, signalling the tipping point for renewables, led predominantly by wind and solar. April’s data from FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, shows that the cumulative capacity across renewables (wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower) stood at 21.6% (257.53MW) beating out coal at 21.5% (157.48MW).
11 June, 2019
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The World’s Largest Wind Farm, Hornsea One, is Now Online

The Hornsea One wind farm is located 75 miles off the UK coast, east of Grimsby. The asset is now partially operational with 50 of its 174 Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines turning, enough to power 287,000 UK residencies. When completed in 2020, the 1,218MW project will be capable of supplying power to over a million homes during its 25-year lifespan,…
5 June, 2019
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Solar’s Circular Economy

Glasgow City Council, working with ScottishPower, has pledged to make Britain’s third-biggest city the first to reach a “net zero” carbon emissions target and beat a 2045 overall target set out by the Scottish government on Tuesday.
21 May, 2019
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Renewable Energy, Climate Change and Technology: Michael Liebreich and Azeem Azhar in Conversation

As we close out 2018, this conversation between Azeem Azhar and Michael Liebreich for the Exponential View podcast is a concise wrap-up of where we are with renewable energy progress and highlights the urgency to reach our targets before 2030, which sounds like some time in the future but is actually only two business cycles away.
19 December, 2018
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Venture Funding – A Year in Review

It’s been just over a year since Taylor Hopkinson closed our 7-figure funding round with our VC partners, SEA Equity so I spoke with our CEO, Tom Hopkinson to reflect on our first year as a VC-backed company. Tom shared how the company has evolved, the challenges of managing rapid growth, and what we learned from the venture capital process. It…
6 November, 2018
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Global Wind and Solar Just passed 1TW

The combined global capacity of wind and solar installations passed the landmark 1000GW in the first half of 2018. Capacity grew 65X since 2000 and took 18 years to get to 1TW. BNEF expects the second 1000GW will take just 5 years. And will cost around half as much.
7 August, 2018
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Q&A with David Craig

David Craig is one of our Senior Consultants and he emigrated earlier this year to set up our new Singapore hub. I caught up with David over Skype to talk about remote work, productivity, and how to operate in the multicultural global workplace.
3 August, 2018
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Skills Shortage Report

The increasing deployment of renewables brings new challenges. Because the field is relatively new and job creation is growing exponentially, it will be increasingly difficult for companies to find skilled talent to fill the hundreds of thousands of new renewable energy jobs each year.
29 June, 2018
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Energy Flexibility and Power Markets

Albert Cheung, Head of Research at BNEF, talks about the race to decarbonize the energy sector, and how the first phase – driving down the costs of clean energy – has been a success. The next phase will be a race to unlock flexibility in each part of the power system.
21 May, 2018
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Welcome to Taylor Hopkinson – Now in Singapore

In April, Taylor Hopkinson established a hub in Singapore, giving us a gateway to the entire Asia-Pac region. Now we can provide consulting to our overseas clients without compromising our high-touch approach to business. Starting from a committed team in our Glasgow office, we’re proud to be a truly international company. We have locations spanning the globe and we’ve helped…
9 May, 2018
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20,000 Followers – Thanks!

As well as this blog and our weekly email newsletter, you can join almost 20,000 professionals who get their updates by following us on LinkedIn. We discuss the most interesting renewable energy news from around the web every day. Here's a roundup of recent stories we've shared with our LinkedIn community.
3 May, 2018
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Renewable Energy News – Best of March 2018

As well as this blog and our weekly email newsletter, you can join almost 20,000 professionals who get their updates by following us on LinkedIn. We discuss the most interesting renewable energy news from around the web every day. Here's a roundup of recent stories we've shared with our LinkedIn community.
9 April, 2018
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Women in Renewables are Leading the way at Boardroom Level

At Taylor Hopkinson we've always believed that a balanced workplace results in a stronger work environment, a more diverse culture, and ultimately better business results. Since launching in 2009, we've worked to include women on every shortlist we present to clients and we're seeing more and more of those female candidates being placed based on merit, not just fulfilling quotas.
8 March, 2018
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Unpacking the EU Solar O&M Conference with Scott Thomson

Fresh back from his trip to Europe’s O&M conference in Munich, I sat down with Scott Thomson, Senior Consultant for Solar & Storage, EMEA to debrief on his findings and unpack the most pertinent talking points from the meeting. We cover the pros and cons of in-house vs outsourced O&M, monitoring systems, the role of big data, and the organisational structures…
2 March, 2018
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Upgrade Your CV – Checklist

We scour through hundreds of CVs every week hunting for the most qualified candidates to fill the ever-expanding roles we're recruiting for. And in terms of CVs. we see everything from outstanding to outlandish. So we decided to share some of our insider advice to help you upgrade your CV and put you in the running for some of our…
20 February, 2018
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Building Our Team in The City of London

Since establishing our New Markets team in Threadneedle Street in the square mile four months ago, we’ve been making great strides into innovative and less-established clean energy technologies like energy from waste, biomass, and geothermal. Now our entire offshore wind contracts team has moved from Bromley to join our office in The City of London.
5 January, 2018
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Ready, Steady, Cook

Two weeks ago, we held our largest all-hands meeting in Glasgow. When we did this in March of this year, there were 18 people in the room. Just 8 months later, we’ve grown to 38. It’s exciting to experience that inflection point first-hand and we’re super-proud that the vision and culture is just as strong through this growth as it…
24 November, 2017
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Corporations are leading the way at COP23

If you're unfamiliar with COP23, it's the United Nations Climate Change Conference attended by ministers and heads of state in Bonn this week. For reference, COP21, held in Paris, culminated in the Paris Agreement, where 196 parties reached consensus, forming a collective initiative to limit global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But we're already falling…
17 November, 2017
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I Don’t Care About Your Interests

Should you list your interests on your CV or resumé? You can probably tell from the title what we think about including your hobbies on your CV. Here's our take... Your CV doesn't have to include everything you've ever done in your life and, whether you're into running ultramarathons or restoring samurai swords, your side-interests shouldn't have any bearing on…
6 November, 2017
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Senior Commercial Lead – SaltX

Taylor Hopkinson are delighted to be retained by SaltX, again! Update - This role has now been filled. This time to search and select a Senior Commercial Lead for their innovative ‘SunCool’ Energy Storage product. The successful candidate will be responsible for selling this product globally, with an initial focus on Asia, Africa, Europe and India. The chosen candidate will have a strong…
24 October, 2017
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The Golden Age for Offshore Wind

A conversation with Tom Hopkinson, CEO. Wind energy, particularly offshore wind, has shown some incredible advances over the past few years. Subsidy-free offshore wind, enormous 8MW turbines, floating wind parks that open up deep-water installation sites, and grid-parity are making wind (along with solar) THE cheapest option across all energies, renewable or otherwise. So I sat down with our CEO, Tom Hopkinson,…
9 October, 2017