The Energy Gang at the Reuters Global Energy Transition Conference - Day One
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This is a special episode of Wood Mackenzie's The Energy Gang, recorded at the Reuters Global Energy Transition 2024 conference in New York.
It has a great lineup of speakers from the worlds of business, finance, and government, giving us an opportunity to talk to some of the key people who are driving the energy transition.
One of the panellists on the first day was Kristina Skierka, CEO of Power for All, a campaign group working on energy access in low-income countries. Host Ed Crooks talked with her about how decentralized renewables can reduce energy poverty, and how partnerships between business, philanthropy and government can help countries make progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Power for All is working on what it calls its “Utilities 2.0” initiative, looking for ways to combine centralized and decentralized energy to create robust, integrated systems that will improve service delivery and stimulate increased demand.
Another session at the event was a technology showcase, where we heard from companies developing innovative ways to cut emissions. One of them was Cella, which has a new method for permanent carbon removal. Its approach accelerates the natural geologic process that turns carbon dioxide into a mineral: it injects captured carbon dioxide into volcanic rocks, where mineralization permanently locks it underground.
Ed talked with Corey Pattison, Cella’s co-founder and CEO, and they discussed the different methods of carbon mineralization, the geology needed for the process to work, and the potential advantages for this method over conventional carbon dioxide storage.
There was also a Town Hall session for attendees, allowing open discussion on any topics the participants wanted to bring up. Ed raised a question suggested on LinkedIn, about the potential trade-off in the transition between speed and scale in the deployment of low carbon technologies, and energy equity. We report back on some of the responses to that question.
Look out for the next special episode from day two of the conference, available on Thursday June 27.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Energy Gang, a discussion show about the fast-moving world of energy. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm it Crooks. |
| 0:15.0 | Now this week we're bringing you a series of special episodes from the Reuters Global Energy |
| 0:19.9 | Transition 2024 Conference here in New York. |
| 0:23.5 | The conference has a great lineup of speakers from the world's business, finance and government, |
| 0:27.4 | leaders in the energy industry and energy policy. |
| 0:30.2 | It's a fantastic opportunity to talk to some of the key people who are driving the energy transition. |
| 0:35.0 | The first person I spoke to was Christina Skirka, who's the founder of a campaign group working on energy access in low-income countries that's called Power for All. |
| 0:43.0 | Christina, welcome to the Energy Gang. |
| 0:45.0 | Thanks so much. I'm a huge fan. It's great to be her. |
| 0:48.0 | Very kind of you to say so. Thanks very much for joining us. |
| 0:50.0 | First things first, what is Power for All all I suspect a few of our listeners |
| 0:54.5 | won't have heard of it. Do you want to talk a little bit about what it is you do? |
| 0:57.1 | So power for all is a global campaign that's focused on accelerating the end of |
| 1:01.1 | energy poverty with decentralized renewables. |
| 1:03.6 | So energy poverty is something that most of us in the global north aren't too familiar with |
| 1:07.7 | because we're surrounded by all the energy we could want. |
| 1:11.3 | But for a large part of the world, in fact, almost a billion people, there is no |
| 1:14.7 | access to any energy beyond, say, maybe some kerosene for lighting. And so in this day |
| 1:20.8 | an age, where the vast majority of those without energy are in peri-urban and rural |
| 1:26.3 | areas, about 85%, we have a perfect solution in what's called decentralized renewables technology. And that takes the form of rooftop solar, |
| 1:35.2 | mini-grids, mobile solar farms, etc. |
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