An Incredible Shift in Power With Emma Pinchbeck
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Emma Pinchbeck is the CEO of Energy UK, a position that she has held since July 2020. She is an expert in whole-economy decarbonisation and the energy transition. She also holds several board advisory positions. From 2016 to 2020, she served as Deputy CEO of the trade body Renewable UK. She also holds an MA from the University of Oxford.
Emma is fresh from an appearance on BBC Newsnight, in which she discusses poor government policy stopping the building of renewables sites like onshore and offshore wind turbines. She also mentions how even war-torn Ukraine has built more turbines than the UK did last year, the full interview can be watched on the link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001nr5g/newsnight-is-uk-losing-net-zero-race
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged podcast. This week's episode was |
| 0:10.0 | technically challenging. Let me put it like that. We had a lot of trouble for whatever reason. |
| 0:15.8 | I don't even know what it is. It wasn't my wireless or internet or hardwired internet. It wasn't |
| 0:24.2 | my guests. It was just, I don't know what it was because we had to compromise and use 4G |
| 0:31.3 | phones and it was crazy. But it was definitely worth it because this our guest today has been on |
| 0:38.3 | the show before. Quite a few times and she is an extraordinary, extraordinary knowledgeable |
| 0:47.4 | spokesperson about the energy transition. I'm talking about Emma Pinchbeck who is and I want to |
| 0:54.4 | make sure I get her title correct. I'm just checking chief executive of Energy UK and this is |
| 1:00.4 | a position she's held since 2020. I actually met Emma long before that and she was on the fully |
| 1:05.5 | charged podcast long before that. She's had many fascinating roles and she's but she's an expert |
| 1:11.3 | in whole economy, decarbonisation and the energy transition. That is the really fascinating thing |
| 1:17.9 | with Emma. Her grasp of what is going on in this country, in Europe in general and in the globe is |
| 1:25.2 | really sensational and this is a fascinating. I'm so glad we managed to do it against all the |
| 1:30.4 | odds to record this episode because it is really important topics that we get into. You do get |
| 1:37.4 | into the weeds but we get into the really interesting granular transition that's going on now |
| 1:47.2 | and it just puts to bed quite a lot of the sort of really armchair engineer nonsense that I get |
| 1:55.9 | sent about renewables and the impact and all the rest of it. So it is really good to have someone |
| 2:01.5 | who genuinely understands the whole industry. Emma represents the entire energy industry, |
| 2:06.4 | nuclear gas, coal, wind, solar, to title everything, pumped storage, battery, you know, it's not |
| 2:14.1 | any one specific topic. So she really understands how all those very difficult and different systems |
| 2:21.6 | work together and it's not always easy as you will discover. So it's a fascinating conversation. |
| 2:26.3 | I really hope you enjoyed. We're going to get Emma back on the podcast again in the future because |
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