Infra Dig – powering the eVTOL revolution

10/18/24 • 21 min

Another technology-based Infra Dig podcast – designed to foster greater understanding of the underlying assets that the infrastructure community invests in and lends to.

This latest episode seen IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville sit down for a fireside with Yash Tripathy – head of product at battery software company About:Energy.

Conversation centres on battery technology with a primary focus on its deployment in electric vertical take-off and landing – eVTOL – flying machines.

This is a sector that is ripe for investment and has an interesting future... and it’s one that IJ is keeping a close eye on as a future transport / delivery solution.

Another technology-based Infra Dig podcast – designed to foster greater understanding of the underlying assets that the infrastructure community invests in and lends to.

This latest episode seen IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville sit down for a fireside with Yash Tripathy – head of product at battery software company About:Energy.

Conversation centres on battery technology with a primary focus on its deployment in electric vertical take-off and landing – eVTOL – flying machines.

This is a sector that is ripe for investment and has an interesting future... and it’s one that IJ is keeping a close eye on as a future transport / delivery solution.

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IJGlobal Podcast – Octopus talks LGPS and social infra

Real assets are increasingly on the agenda for UK local government pension schemes, as they offer stable returns.

Social infrastructure has been a rising investment focus due to impact it has on the local community and members of the scheme.
Lisa Botter, Editor of IJInvestor (a service of IJGlobal, which is a Green Street company), speaks with Jack Burnham, head of affordable housing at Octopus Investments, which recently did a survey on the subject.

In a survey of 27 LGPS, Octopus Investments and its research partner found that schemes are familiar with and are investing in a range of social infrastructure themes, but investment returns outweigh impact.
Despite the interest from schemes, it is up to social infrastructure managers to prove their social and climate credentials to prevent greenwashing and so-called, social washing.

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Infra Dig – Highview Power… just so interesting

Here at IJGlobal we love to bring you podcasts on the most interesting developments on technology and innovation across the panoply of infrastructure assets classes – and this one’s a cracker.

Well, to be fair, it’s not an actual “cracker”, this is an interview with Richard Butland, co-founder and chief executive of Highview Power, where we are discussing the UK’s first commercial-scale liquid air energy storage plant in Carrington, Manchester.

Having this summer concluded the financing of its demonstrator in the north of England and with plans for another one in the UK progressing nicely, Highview has big plans... on an international level.

Tune in for the latest Infra Dig podcast on an exciting energy storage innovation that's been a long time in the brewing, but is now going places.