Ashley Seager is the managing director of Sun4net Ltd, a company that develops solar energy projects and sells electricity back into the grid.

Prior to setting up his solar business Ashley was an economics journalist for 20 years, spending 14 years at Reuters covering the energy markets (oil and solar) as well as economics, following which he was the Guardian’s economics correspondent until 2010. Between leaving journalism for solar, Ashley worked with Deutsche Bank using his expertise to redraft research reports into more digestible formats.

We touch on a range of fascinating issues in this podcast, from the future of (economics) journalism, the development of solar projects in the UK, Germany and Africa, and the British government’s approach to solar power.