James McCallum: Energy firms must embrace ‘power of technology’ to ease their troubles
Xergy founder James McCallum discusses the role of technology in helping improve energy firms' margins.
Xergy founder James McCallum discusses the role of technology in helping improve energy firms' margins.
With COP26 coming to Glasgow later this year, demonstrating a leading effort in sustainability and the energy transition has never been more important to Scotland. Yet despite the innovation and drive behind Scotland’s green efforts, barriers to renewable jobs are causing a talent gap impacting the sustainable jobs market and will likely begin to hinder the country’s sustainable progress in the future.
We live in a world in a hurry. A world with both an insatiable hunger for energy and an understanding of the need to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It’s complicated but these paradigms are not mutually exclusive. Finding a solution that achieves both of these objectives will be an enormous challenge but is far from impossible.
Technology start-up Xergy has secured almost half a million pounds to help further develop its “revolutionary” digital platform.
North Sea oil and gas entrepreneur James McCallum has said the industry’s post Covid-19 future hinges on skills.
All successful entrepreneurs have a knack of surrounding themselves with the “right people”, business experts said at an event near Aberdeen yesterday.