Recently I sat down virtually with energy policy expert Jan Rosenow of RAP on my podcast “Redefining Energy — Tech” to discuss how residential and commercial building heat solutions. In the theme of providing transcripts of presentations I’m giving in various places for people who prefer the written word, this is the lightly edited transcript of the first half of our conversation. Michael Barnard (MB): Hello and welcome back to Redefining Energy – Tech.
I’m your host, Michael Barnard. My guest today is Jan Rosenow, the director of European programs at RAP and an expert on the proliferation of heat pumps. Welcome, Jan.
Jan Rosenow (JR): Thanks for having me, Michael. Looking forward to a great conversation. MB: It’s going to be good because this is an important topic and a lot of people are trying to prevent the right answer from being the obvious answer that just gets done quickly and easily.
I always like to start these things by finding out and sharing with our listeners. Who is Jan Rosenow? What led you to this interesting place of literally international attention, which you probably didn’t expect, but, you know, how did you get here? JR: Well, actually my background is in geosciences, so I was always interested in understanding the impact that we as humanity had on the planet, on the ecosystems, on the climate. But I increasingly got interested in how can we solve that, how can we mitigate some of the negative impacts? And once you start looking at that, .