Reflections on the Last 10 Years, Projections for the Next 10
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We’re closing out the decade this week with a retrospective.
We have been doing this show since 2013. So we are going to share some of our top story lines in energy and cleantech of the last 10 years — many of which played out while we were doing this show.
We’ll start with some personal retrospectives. What was consuming us back in 2009? How did that story shake out?
Then we’ll choose the most important stories that defined the teens. Katherine will choose the top policy trend, Jigar will choose the top business trend, and Stephen will choose the top tech trend.
Finally, we’ll look ahead to 2030 and beyond. What needs to happen in policy, business, technology to “win” the decade?=
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| 0:34.0 | From Green Tech Media, this is the energy gang, weekly debates and discussions on the fast-changing world of energy. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Stephen Lacey, a contributing editor with Green Tech Media. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to our last episode, before the calendar flips to 2020. By this date, Ray Kurtzweil thought |
| 0:56.7 | we'd have nanobots to feed ourselves, making eating obsolete. The Rand Corporation thought |
| 1:01.6 | we'd have apes performing manual labor, and a lot of people thought we'd be on Mars by now. |
| 1:06.0 | We may not have any of those things, but we do have anthropomorphic speakers and doorbells that spy on us, |
| 1:11.0 | same day delivery of any piece of junk we could want, and |
| 1:14.4 | canned air for people living in smog-filled cities. |
| 1:17.6 | We also have the disembodied voices of Catherine Hamilton and Jigger Shaw. |
| 1:21.8 | Catherine is the chair of 38 North Solutions. She's there in DC. Hey, |
| 1:24.7 | Catherine. Hey, happy to be here. Jigger is the president of Generate Capital. |
| 1:29.6 | He is in Bethesda, Maryland. Hey, Jigger. Hey, just recovering from holiday season parties. |
| 1:35.0 | I heard that you both were at a party over the weekend and it got kind of crazy. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, we had one in our house and it got kind of busy and now we're heading over to |
| 1:45.0 | Catherine's place. Yeah tomorrow is when we get cut loose. I have received no |
| 1:51.2 | invites. Well I'll add you to Catherine's invite last tomorrow. |
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