{"id":7977,"date":"2022-11-20T13:40:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T12:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/20\/i-dont-try-and-fit-in-energy-boss-dale-vince-on-fracking-farage-and-going-green\/"},"modified":"2022-11-20T13:40:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T12:40:41","slug":"i-dont-try-and-fit-in-energy-boss-dale-vince-on-fracking-farage-and-going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/20\/i-dont-try-and-fit-in-energy-boss-dale-vince-on-fracking-farage-and-going-green\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t try and fit in\u2019: energy boss Dale Vince on fracking, Farage and going green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale Vince is not your run-of-the-mill power company chief. Here, the founder of Ecotricity talks about green energy, warring with Elon Musk \u2013 and his vegan football team<\/p>\n

It is fair to say that Britain\u2019s alternative energy sector is not dripping with glamour, but within the world of turbines and micro-inverters, Dale Vince, the multimillionaire founder of Ecotricity<\/a>, counts as a superstar.<\/p>\n

Vince has the directional haircut and the fancy electric motorcycle. He has the maverick past (as a New Age traveller) and the visions of the future (a vegan Britain entirely self-sufficient in green gas). And he has his fingers in many sustainably sourced pies, from rainforest regeneration to electric vehicles, documentaries like Seaspiracy<\/a><\/em> to tidal lagoons, artificial diamonds to plant-based football. In addition to founding the world\u2019s first green energy company \u2013 Ecotricity began life as a wind turbine that Vince had built next to his caravan in 1995 \u2013 he is the owner of Forest Green Rovers<\/a>, the world\u2019s first vegan, carbon- neutral football club, whom he has taken to the third tier of English football for the first time in its history. A timber stadium is one of the next items on the club\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n

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\nDale Vince is not your run-of-the-mill power company chief. Here, the founder of Ecotricity talks about green energy, warring with Elon Musk \u2013 and his vegan football team
\nIt is fair to say that Britain\u2019s alternative energy sector is not dripping with glamour, but within the world of turbines and micro-inverters, Dale Vince, the multimillionaire founder of Ecotricity, counts as a superstar.
\nVince has the directional haircut and the fancy electric motorcycle. He has the maverick past (as a New Age traveller) and the visions of the future (a vegan Britain entirely self-sufficient in green gas). And he has his fingers in many sustainably sourced pies, from rainforest regeneration to electric vehicles, documentaries like Seaspiracy to tidal lagoons, artificial diamonds to plant-based football. In addition to founding the world\u2019s first green energy company \u2013 Ecotricity began life as a wind turbine that Vince had built next to his caravan in 1995 \u2013 he is the owner of Forest Green Rovers, the world\u2019s first vegan, carbon- neutral football club, whom he has taken to the third tier of English football for the first time in its history. A timber stadium is one of the next items on the club\u2019s agenda. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dale Vince is not your run-of-the-mill power company chief. Here, the founder of Ecotricity talks about green energy, warring with Elon Musk \u2013 and his vegan football team It is fair to say that Britain\u2019s alternative energy sector is not dripping with glamour, but within the world of turbines and micro-inverters, Dale Vince, the multimillionaire …<\/p>\n

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