Olympus Power Ltd

02/09/2026

When fully up and running the PV arrays on hospitals are expected to generate around 1,180 MWh of clean electricity a year

When fully up and running the PV arrays on hospitals are expected to generate around 1,180 MWh of clean electricity a year

02/09/2026

Meet Simon Nicholls, Founder & CEO of Olympus Power.

With a background spanning renewable energy, sustainability and environmental economics, Simon has spent his career exploring how businesses can make sustainability work commercially, not simply talk about it.

Today, that means helping organisations take greater control of their energy, reduce costs, improve resilience and make smarter long term energy decisions.

This September, Simon is taking that experience to Ideas Fest 2026, joining a panel discussion with Quincey Katie Ankrett, CPP, APMP, Chantal Kerr-Sheppard and Shiv Misra:

Sustainability Is a Strategy, Not a Sticker

Expect a conversation about moving beyond green claims and making sustainability a genuine part of business strategy.

📅 Wednesday 9th September
🕒 15:00 to 15:45
📍 Growth Village, Engine Room

Heading to Ideas Fest? Come along and hear Simon's perspective.

01/09/2026

Simon Nicholls been invited to speak at Ideas Fest in September, which is being held on 9th & 10th September, do you have your tickets?

01/09/2026

When was the last time you remembered to have fun at work?

As we return from the last Bank Holiday of the year, Rory Sutherland's reminder to always have fun feels particularly well timed.

So here's a question to take into Tuesday:

Is there a way you could inject a little more fun into what you do today?

That's certainly part of the philosophy behind Ideas Fest, often described as the “Glastonbury for business”, bringing entrepreneurs and business leaders together for two days that are deliberately a little different from your typical business event.

Olympus Power Founder & CEO Simon Nicholls will be joining the line-up this year, speaking on:

Sustainability Is a Strategy, Not a Sticker

📅 Wednesday 9th September
🕒 15:00 to 15:45
📍 Growth Village, Engine Room

Heading to Ideas Fest? Come along and join the conversation.

31/08/2026

We report on the advantages and challenges of organic photovoltaic solar modules - a technology of the future.

  What is your initial reaction to the words organic photovoltaic solar modules (OPVs)? Do you imagine sheets of some kind of vegetation, moss for example, connected to an electric cable to facilitate drawing off any electricity generated when the plants are exposed to sunlight? This scenario might...

28/08/2026

While everyone is gearing up for the Bank Holiday ... the countdown to Ideas Fest 2026 is well and truly on 🔥🚀

We’re massively excited our CEO Simon Nicholls is joining the speaker line-up on the 9th! The event is fast becoming known as the “Glastonbury for business.”

Bringing together thousands of entrepreneurs, founders and business leaders at Champneys, Tring, Ideas Fest is anything but your typical business conference.

Simon will be joining the panel:

"Sustainability Is a Strategy, Not a Sticker"

📅 Wednesday 9 September
🕒 15:00 - 15:45
📍 Growth Village, Engine Room

The conversation will explore how businesses can move beyond sustainability as just a marketing message and embed it into commercial strategy that eliminates greenwashing, builds trust and creates genuine business value.

Check out Simon's speaker profile here and be sure to book your tickets if you haven't done so already - https://ideasfest.uk/speaking/simon-nicholls-48b7cf

Who else is heading to Ideas Fest this year? 🔥

28/08/2026

A brilliant example of young innovation making a global impact. A student has developed a low-cost, solar-powered water purification system that could bring safe drinking water to off-grid communities, proving how clean energy and bright ideas can help solve some of the world's biggest challenges.

Divyasri Kothapalli's project uses a Fresnel lens to concentrate sunlight, boil contaminated water, and condense steam into clean water, in a low-cost solution recognized at the Stockholm Junior Water Prize and aimed at rural communities without reliable access to energy. A water purification system...

27/08/2026

The data centre boom is creating a parallel growth industry: opposition to itself.

New developments are facing local opposition powerful enough to delay or stop projects altogether. In the US, 75 projects worth $130bn were blocked or delayed during the first three months of 2026 alone, according to Data Center Watch.

Many concerns centre around energy, water and land use, meaning addressing community impact can no longer be reactionary. It needs to be considered from the beginning.

We're already seeing some fascinating approaches.

🇸🇪 In Sweden, waste heat from a data centre will heat a glasshouse, allowing cucumbers to be grown inside the Arctic Circle.

🇫🇮 In Finland, a data centre transfers heat to a neighbouring supermarket, providing most of its heating requirements.

🇨🇳 In Beijing, Spark761 integrates a data centre into the city's arts district, including exhibition space and a theatre.

As inference computing grows and facilities move closer to end users to reduce latency, smaller urban data centres are also likely to become more common.

Data centres are now designated as national critical infrastructure in the UK. Like other major infrastructure before them, they aren't going away.

The challenge for the industry is bigger than simply building more capacity.

It's figuring out how data centres can become better neighbours to the communities around them.

Read the full story: https://olympuspower.co.uk/will-we-ever-learn-to-love-data-centres/

27/08/2026

Voltage optimisation is a great way to help manage and reduce your energy usage, read about how this landlord did exactly that

A landlord of two large Inns in Somerset has fitted ‘voltage optimization’ from Olympus Power and lowered his power bills

26/08/2026

Today, we're joining millions around the world in remembering the late, great, Dolly Parton, whose extraordinary legacy extended far beyond music.

An artist, entrepreneur and philanthropist who built an unmistakable identity and remained true to it throughout an extraordinary career.

Her words are a fitting reminder for all of us in business: know what you stand for, understand the impact you want to make and pursue it with purpose.

Rest in peace, Dolly Parton. 1946 - 2026.