So how can developers mitigate this risk factor, and what strategies are most effective in the current US energy landscape, which can be both polarised and politicised?

Pamela Largue speaks to John Lacey, Senior Vice President and Director of Public Affairs at US-based communications firm Mower Agency, about why it's critical to build trust with communities and customers.

Ultimately, according to Lacey, trust and human connection are core ingredients to ensuring energy infrastructure projects can be built at the speed and scale required, while ensuring people remain at the heart of the energy transition.

In this episode, you will learn more about:

• The current state of US energy policy and the impact of recent changes on developers;
• Whether there is any political consensus on infrastructure development;
• What community opposition to power projects looks like and why it happens;
• Understanding the NIMBY mindset and mitigating it through earning trust;
• The importance of tailoring communication strategies to communities and technology types;
• Prioritising relevance over green messaging;
• The link between building trust and protecting the bottom line.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue speaks with Christophe Williams, CEO of Naked Energy, to find out how their innovative solution of evacuated tubes produces both electricity and heat, converting up to 80% of the sun’s energy into usable power and hot water.

It's an important step forward in helping to decarbonise heat, the “warm elephant in the room” of climate action, says Williams.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• Why the company chose to be called Naked Energy;
• What it means to redefine a mature technology like solar power;
• How Naked Energy is employing novel design techniques to achieve greater solar thermal efficiencies;
• How the British Library is using solar thermal technology to decarbonise and keep precious knowledge safe;
• The use cases for solar thermal technology in decarbonising the commercial and industrial sector;
• Christophe’s journey from the creative industries into clean tech.

In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue has a candid conversation with Monica Collings, newly appointed Chair of POWERful Women and recent recipient of an OBE, about the pressing need for greater gender diversity in the UK energy sector.

Collings highlights the encouraging and disappointing results of POWERful Women's 2025 State of the Nation Report, and explains why deep structural change is needed to get the UK power sector's diversity strategy back on track.

In this episode you will learn more about:

• How POWERful Women is tracking on its mission to achieve 40% of energy sector leadership and middle management roles to be held by women by 2030;
• The standout results from POWERful Women's State of the Nation report;
• How a lack of diversity is impacting the UK's energy sector;
• How to attract and retain talented women with a supportive workplace culture;
• Whether DEI needs to be reframed to achieve more;
• Why diversity in leadership is good for business and critical for the energy transition.