The Energy Insider Podcast: Episode #29 “Working with Great People” With Timothy Richmond of Chariot Energy; and Episode #30 “Leading Through Crisis” With Monica Collings OBE

The Energy Insider podcast, hosted by Jack Doueck of the Energy Marketing Conference, has released two new episodes:

• Episode #29 “Working with Great People” With Timothy Richmond, of Chariot Energy

• Episode #30 “Leading Through Crisis” With Monica Collings OBE

Episode #29 “Working with Great People” With Timothy Richmond of Chariot Energy

In this episode of The Energy Insider Podcast, Timothy Richmond, Director of Sales at Chariot Energy, joins Jack Doueck to share the remarkable 20-year journey that shaped his career in the retail energy industry. Tim explains Chariot Energy’s unique position in the marketplace as a retail energy startup backed by Hanwha Energy. The conversation explores Chariot’s ambitious expansion plans beyond ERCOT into PJM markets beginning with Ohio, as well as Tim’s perspective on the future of retail energy, including industry consolidation, the continued expansion of customer choice, and growing demand for long-term fixed-rate energy products.

The discussion includes:

• Why Tim believes retail energy choice will continue expanding geographically as customers increasingly seek long-term price stability and budget certainty

• The competitive advantages that gentailers may have over traditional retail energy providers

• What Tim learned transitioning from the brokerage side of the business to the supplier side

• What differentiates Chariot Energy in today’s rapidly evolving retail energy marketplace

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Episode #30 “Leading Through Crisis” With Monica Collings OBE

What happens when the energy market around you begins to collapse? In 2021–2022, an extraordinary energy crisis swept across the UK. Wholesale gas prices exploded. Household energy bills soared. Thirty energy suppliers collapsed. And Monica Collings was sitting in the CEO's chair. As CEO of challenger retailer So Energy, Monica had to navigate one of the most turbulent periods the energy industry had ever experienced—managing volatile wholesale markets, customer debt, regulators, government intervention, emergency board meetings and increasingly angry consumers.

In this compelling episode of The Energy Insider, Jack Doueck sits down with Monica Collins to explore what separates the companies—and leaders—that survive a crisis from those that don't. What role did hedging, liquidity, governance and risk management play in determining which UK suppliers survived? Did the government's price cap protect consumers—or inadvertently help create the conditions that destroyed suppliers? And when markets become unstable, should regulators impose more restrictions—or focus instead on transparency and allow competitive markets to innovate?

Monica and Jack also compare the radically different structures of the UK and U.S. electricity markets, explore the growing problem of customer energy debt, and debate how regulators can protect vulnerable consumers without eliminating products and choices that may actually benefit them.

Recently honored with an OBE for her leadership and work advancing women in energy, Monica emerged from the crisis with lessons forged under circumstances few executives ever experience. If your company suddenly faced a crisis tomorrow—would your balance sheet, your risk strategy, your board and your leadership team be ready? This is a conversation about energy markets—but even more, it's about leadership when everything goes wrong. You don’t want to miss it.

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