Frank Spencer is well known in the southern African renewable energy Space. He serves as the Head of Deployment at Bushveld Energy, a vertically integrated Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) company that recently closed the first project financed PPA-based large scale VRFB project. Frank has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering as well as a Philosophy degree in Sustainable Development. He is passionate about addressing the multifaceted challenges of climate change, rural electrification and poverty in Africa. He built his first solar project while at school, and his first commercial grid-tied solar project in 2002. Since then, he has been active across all aspects of renewable energy projects from manufacturing to finance and business development across the African continent. He now promotes deeper integration of renewables into power systems through the use of VRFBs.