How Customers Will Shape Zero-Carbon Utility Targets [Special Content From Oracle]
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This sponsored episode was produced in collaboration with GTM Creative Strategies and the Opower team at Oracle Utilities.
The last two years have brought a surge of plans for zero-carbon energy from some of the biggest power providers in the world. Dozens of U.S. utilities have committed to decarbonizing by 80% or more by 2050.
"Two thirds of U.S. consumers are now served by utilities with carbon or emissions reduction goals," says Scott Neuman, group vice president of Opower, at Oracle Utilities.
National Grid is the latest utility to up the ante. The electricity and gas supplier now wants to hit net-zero emissions by 2050.
"In terms of decarbonizing and reducing emissions across society, it can break out into three broad areas, decarbonizing generational power, decarbonizing transport and decarbonizing heat," says Badar Kahn, the presdient of National Grid US.
In this episode, we’ll hear from Badar Kahn and Scott Neuman about how zero-carbon goals may reshape utility operations -- and reshape the role of the customer.
"We're taking everything we've learned, everything we've built, and focusing our team on changing behaviors that will deliver the greatest emission reductions as quickly, affordably and accurately as possible," says Neuman.
Opower is working every single day to help your utility build a clean energy future. Utilities around the world rely on Opower to connect with their customers. Opower helps people save energy, save money, and adopt all the clean energy products & services we need right now.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an original branded podcast from GTM creative strategies. |
| 0:07.0 | The last two years have brought historic change for the power sector. |
| 0:12.0 | Suddenly there's been a surge of major utility plans for |
| 0:14.8 | 100% zero carbon energy and it's coming from some of the biggest power providers in |
| 0:19.3 | the world. So utilities really are getting serious about decarbonization, and I think it's awesome. |
| 0:27.1 | Scott Newman is the group vice president of O-power at Oracle Utilities. |
| 0:31.2 | He's been working with top utilities on behavioral efficiency for a decade |
| 0:34.7 | and even he's surprised by what he's seeing. Two-thirds of US consumers are now |
| 0:40.0 | served by utilities with carbon or emissions reduction goals and over over the last year alone I think |
| 0:46.0 | something like 30 US utilities have committed to decarbonizing by 80% or more by 2050 and in October October, another utility upped the ante. |
| 0:56.0 | National Grid is announcing a new plan to deliver clean energy for the future. |
| 1:00.0 | In a statement sent to 22 news, company said the new net zero by 2050 plan |
| 1:06.4 | focuses on achieving net zero emissions through their gas and electric networks and |
| 1:11.1 | I think in terms of decarbonizing and reducing emissions across society can break it out into kind of |
| 1:18.0 | three broad areas, decarbonizing generation or power, decarbonizing transport, and decarbonizing heat. |
| 1:25.7 | That's Bad Arcon, the president of National Grid US. |
| 1:29.1 | The net zero target includes slashing emissions across its own operations and from all the gas and |
| 1:33.9 | electricity that National Grid sells. It includes a major new renewable energy |
| 1:38.1 | business plus an aim to ramp up renewable natural gas and hydrogen. We felt that if |
| 1:42.4 | we're going to make a difference, we |
| 1:44.7 | needed to not only reduce emissions from our own operations, but also |
| 1:48.6 | enable the decarbonization of society more broadly, and that's what our net zero plan is. |
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