Mirjam Penders - Sympower

What if we could use existing assets to save the climate? Yes, you've read correctly. What if one of the solutions to fix the climate crisis was to use existing assets such as steel smelting plants, greenhouses or HVACs in a smarter way, namely by lowering their energy demand in order to ensure grid stability. This service is called flexibility. Sympower, a Dutch scale-up company, helps companies to unlock flexibility to make the energy system more efficient. Mirjam Penders, Head of Commercial at Sympower. shares her personal journey into the energy market, why we need more flexibility solutions, challenges to scale across Europe and why greenhouses in Finland are the perfect provider for flexibility.