Can the US electricity system meet the challenges it faces? The Energy Gang live at NYCW
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The US is entering a new era of electricity demand growth, after two decades of flatlining consumption. It is a shift that has huge implications for consumers, the industry and climate goals. Ed Crooks hosts a special live edition of the podcast, recorded at NYU for NY Climate Week, to debate the risks and opportunities in this new world for US power. On the panel:
- Caroline Golin, Global Head of Energy Market Development and Innovation at Google
- Kate Gordon, Chief Executive of California Forward
- Amy Myers Jaffe, Director of NYU's Climate and Sustainability Lab
- Xizhou Zhou, Head of Power Renewables at Wood Mackenzie
Together they discuss the double-edged sword that is AI. It can drive increased efficiency throughout the energy industry, but also creates greatly increased demand electricity. Caroline discusses Google's commitment to achieving 24/7 carbon-free energy for its data centers, and advocates for innovative business models to support clean energy goals.
Kate explains how extreme heat, electrification, and the push for decarbonization are reshaping energy needs. Balancing economic growth with climate resilience, job creation, and community engagement is a difficult challenge. How can it be done?
Xizhou argues that the US has been unprepared for the recent surge in energy needs. How can the nation build out new infrastructure to alleviate the tensions and bottlenecks that are emerging?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Energy Gang, a discussion show about the fast moving |
| 0:09.5 | old of energy. I'm Ed Crooks and it is a great pleasure to welcome you all to a special live recording of the energy gang for Climate Week here at the Kimmel Center at New York University. |
| 0:21.0 | What we're going to be talking about today |
| 0:24.0 | is a new world for electricity in the US. |
| 0:28.9 | We've had about two decades where power demand |
| 0:32.4 | is roughly flatlined in this country, basically no |
| 0:36.3 | growth at all. But now it looks like that is changing very fundamentally, and we're into a new world where power demand is going to be growing very significantly over the coming years and decades. |
| 0:52.0 | And that has all kinds of implications for consumers, the industry, for the pace of |
| 0:58.0 | decarbonisation in the electricity sector, of course, very important priority for many of us and that's what we're going to be talking about today and exploring some of the |
| 1:09.2 | Implications of what's going on so to do that we have some great guests here joining us on the show. |
| 1:15.3 | Maybe start with you, Caroline Galin, Caroline Galin, who is the global head of |
| 1:19.1 | Energy Market Development and Innovation at Google. Caroline, thanks a lot for joining us. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh, thank you for having me. |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome to the Energy Gang. |
| 1:26.0 | We also have Kate Gordon, who's the chief executive of California Forward, |
| 1:30.0 | which is a, do you call yourselves a think tank? |
| 1:32.0 | What's the right way to think about what you do? |
| 1:34.5 | A think and do tank, indeed. |
| 1:35.9 | Much better than just thinking. |
| 1:38.0 | And which is, and you work on sustainable development |
| 1:41.0 | in California, right? |
| 1:41.9 | Yeah. And also, right? Yeah. |
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