If I said “going off grid”, you’d probably think of crusty New Age Traveller types building their own home out of straw bales in some distant corner of the country. But behind all the jargon like Behind the Meter (BTM) energy and Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) is a growing movement by some big energy-intensive industries to break free of the constraints of the electricity grid (capacity, connection delays, transmission/policy costs) and move towards energy independence. David Kipling, CEO of On Site Energy, joins me to unpick the jargon, set out the business case and look at short term and long term trends.

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