{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Flanigan's Eco-Logic","title":"Gareth Evans - Driving Down Business Energy Costs","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1966,"description":"Gareth Evans is the founder and CEO of Veckta, an energy consulting firm that advises businesses on how to take control of their energy costs. Far from taking passive positions, and given rising energy costs, he encourages businesses to explore their options using tools such as onsite energy production, energy efficiency, and energy storage. Veckta develops custom solutions and then employs its platform of ~4,000 vendors to fulfill strategies based on a particular company's needs... be it cost savings, energy resilience, cutting emissions, brand recognition, or prioritizing between locations.\nWhat Gareth has realized since founding Veckta in 2019, is that companies need a playbook. While companies are naturally expert in their own lines of business, since energy costs represent up to 40% of operating costs, rather than letting energy costs spiral upward... companies need to be made aware of their opportunities to not only stem costs, but to create new revenue centers. To spread the word, Gareth has recently written the playbook, a book called \"Powering Profits.\" It was released on May 19, 2026 and is available on Amazon.\nGareth's career in energy  began in oil and gas. In 2009, and right after the Gulf War, he was dispatched to Iraq to determine the steps required to rebuild the war-ravaged oil and gas infrastructure in Iraq as a precursor for major oil companies restarting operations there. He was stationed at a U.S. Army base in Basra, and describes mortar attacks, his detail of body guards and more. In that very dangerous capacity, he was made painfully aware of the complex and costly infrastructure needed to extract oil and gas, and beyond that, he took stock at how these precious resources were exported to foreign countries, often for inefficient uses. \nIn Iraq, Gareth also witnessed the gross disparity between the major international, fossil fuel conglomerates, and the people in Iraq who were lacking access to energy... often with very limited electricity,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7kUbICrzk0aEuZffrVBGprBuBqZJlmqp9h-fda_2pHg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM1MTQ0LzE3MTE1/NjgzMTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}