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143: How to Make Money in the $275 Trillion* Energy Transition & Can Tesla Survive?

Money Maze Podcast

Money Maze Podcast

Business, Investing, Management, News, Business News

4.8216 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Whether you’re a believer in the timelines, or sceptical about its urgency, the energy transition is underway, and its ramifications are immense. Both for the climate and for investors, the new order is challenging the old.

In this conversation, Per Lekander, a veteran of the energy and utility space, discusses the failings of the wind and solar industries but also the opportunities which exist for investment.

He evaluates competing energy sources, the rising temperature challenge, the runway ahead for electrification and the changes ahead for autos. 

He expands on his negative view on Tesla, why Mercedes has such a technological edge, changes in battery technology and how he navigates the long and short worlds in his funds.

Clean Energy Transition LLP is a thematic alternative investment management firm focused on fundamental equity investing across global long/short and long only investment strategies.

Its funds were first launched by Partner, Portfolio Manager and CEO, Per Lekander, at Lansdowne Partners (UK) LLP in 2015.

Today, the Firm manages c. US$2.7bn in assets for a diversified institutional client base, seeking to capitalise on the transformational changes occurring in the global energy sector, with a primary goal of delivering superior risk-adjusted returns. 

​​The Money Maze Podcast is kindly sponsored by Schroders, IFM Investors and the World Gold Council

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Wall Street Shelfore

0:08.8

in the money wrestle

0:13.1

Welcome to the Money Mace podcast.

0:17.5

I'm Simon Brewer and along with my co-founder, Will Campion. We created this show in 2020

0:23.3

to explore and unravel some of the mysteries surrounding the investment and business worlds.

0:28.3

Episage to make a mark if you want to make more. You need the luck to make a buck if you want to be

0:35.6

good. Epishtra. Episodes are available on audio via most podcast platforms and on video via our YouTube channel

0:45.2

and we're active on all major social media platforms to stay up to date with every episode

0:50.7

please do sign up to our newsletter at money mazepododcast.com. We'd like to thank you

0:56.0

for listening. If we could ask one favor, we'd love you to tell a friend or skeptical about its urgency, the energy transition is underway and its ramifications immense. It's been estimated the adoption of new technologies translate into a $200 trillion opportunity over the next 30 years.

1:29.6

Yet the numbers hide varying geographical approaches between Europe, Asia and the US.

1:35.3

Politicians, from my perch, a virtue signalling and often naive in their expectations about timelines,

1:41.9

and the investment industry all too keen to jump on the bandwagon

1:45.3

and create products that may not survive investment examination. We had Michael Bersham,

1:50.8

McKinsey's head of corporate strategy in an interview in January last year, discussed the transition

1:54.9

top-down, but consultants don't manage money. And so today we wanted to go to the coal face,

2:00.5

if you'll excuse the pun,

2:01.9

and we ask several allocators who we respect who they would recommend to have as a guest

2:07.1

and a highly regarded investor. And the answer was the gentleman sitting in front of me today.

2:12.5

Someone who thinks that Tesla could go bankrupt, talks about the failings of the wind industry, all wrapped within his

2:19.3

unequivocal view of the need for this transition to accelerate. And we hope today to understand

2:24.5

who he thinks are the winners and losers, what his firm, clean energy transition and its two

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