Mohamed Gaafar is the CEO and co-founder of Gryd, an energy technology company helping housebuilders deploy fully funded solar and battery systems on new homes through a UK-first leased solar model. Mohamed is passionate about improving the sustainability and affordability of housing, with a long-term goal of making clean energy systems a standard feature of every new home rather than an optional extra. Our mission is to democratise the benefits of solar and storage through a UK-first leased solar model. Being in the heart of the industry, I could see the technology existed to bring down homeowners’ energy costs, but the barriers to accessing it were huge. For me, success is when amply-sized, clean home energy systems are no longer the exception but the norm.