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EMIN ASKEROV
Cleantech FOAK and Scale-up Consiglieri
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Solar heating vs. heat pumps
I'm deep into research on large-scale solar heating vs. heat pumps – and the findings are fascinating. At the household level, heat pumps...
Emin Askerov
Apr 291 min read
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AIn't Gonna Do It
AI hysteria is here. Ignore it.
Emin Askerov
Apr 281 min read
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Hydrogen planes: The new Concorde, minus the takeoff
Airbus just quietly moved the launch of its hydrogen-powered plane from 2035 to 2045. In corporate speak, that’s not a delay—it’s a...
Emin Askerov
Apr 251 min read
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Getting Utilities to Buy Your Product: Lessons from LineVision and the Utility Gauntlet
LineVision experience in selling to Utilities
Emin Askerov
Apr 243 min read
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Behind the Scenes
What am I working on?
Emin Askerov
Apr 231 min read
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AI and energy use? Not an energy problem — it's a hype problem.
Do we really have an AI energy problem? Or is it just hype (as usual)?
Emin Askerov
Apr 161 min read
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How to Build a Battery Industry
How the EU can build its own battery industry
Emin Askerov
Apr 152 min read
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The Thing About Europe
Why you shouldn't lose faith in Europe
Emin Askerov
Apr 141 min read
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ChatGPT Profiled Me
Logging in to ChatGPT today, I was greeted with a suggestion to describe me based on all of the chats I had. I’ve been using ChatGPT for...
Emin Askerov
Apr 111 min read
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Book Review: How Big Things Get Done — Bent Flyvbjerg
Why are solar projects almost always on time, while nuclear ones spiral out of control? This book has the answers
Emin Askerov
Apr 32 min read
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The Middle East BESS market- where I was wrong
Two things I got wrong about Saudi Arabia BESS market
Emin Askerov
Apr 12 min read
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Middle East: A Hot Market for BESS or Just Hot Air?
Is the Middle East really the next big thing for battery storage—or just another mirage?
Emin Askerov
Mar 272 min read
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When will heat pumps have their solar moment?
What are the key drivers of heat pump market growth?
Emin Askerov
Mar 262 min read
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💸 Why (most) climate tech startups don’t deliver 10x returns
Data shows that 10x returns are extremely rare in the climate tech
Emin Askerov
Mar 251 min read
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Scaling Cleantech: Learn from Green Hydrogen’s Business Case Failure
Green hydrogen was supposed to be the next big thing—but where’s the business case?
Emin Askerov
Mar 202 min read
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What will happen to Cleantech in 2025?
What are the main challenges to NetZero in 2025?
Emin Askerov
Mar 191 min read
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EPC for Your FOAK: Make or Break Decision
How to chose and EPC for your FOAK
Emin Askerov
Mar 182 min read
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FOAK Expertise: The Missing Piece in Climate Scale-Up
Where do you get FOAK Expertise? From FOAK advisors, who have done a FOAK before. Meet the new branch of cleantech ecosystem - the FOAK assi
Emin Askerov
Mar 171 min read
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FOAK and EPC: Yes or No?
When scaling from Demo to FOAK, one of the biggest decisions is whether to hire an EPC company or manage the build yourself
Emin Askerov
Mar 141 min read
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FOAK Management - Simplifying the Chaos
Here is your 5-step framework to simplify your FOAK management structure.
Emin Askerov
Mar 134 min read
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