A Breakthrough In The Energy Game
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Zero-emission, low-cost electricity, delivered to the grid from natural-gas fuelled technology. A wright-brothers first flight kind of breakthrough in energy?
The gang discuss the possibilities and scalability of NET Powers Technology, a Texas-based energy company who’ve made this exact claim.
Ed is joined as usual by Melissa Lott from Columbia University, and Emily Chasan from Generate Capital.
The other big story of the week was the collapse of British energy provider Bulb, the 6th largest provider in the country and an issue that has impacted some 2 million customers. Could the same thing happen in the US? Within those talks, the pros and cons of carbon capture technology are explored, and if the Biden administration made the right decision to release 50 million barrels of petroleum from the SPR to help ease the heightened holiday energy demand.
The gang leaves you with some holiday-season free electrons, including a cracking joke from Ed, and find out why climate change is affecting Canada’s maple syrup production.
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| 0:00.0 | The energy gang is brought to you by Hitachi Energy. How is the grid evolving and changing? |
| 0:04.4 | What does it mean for your business, your energy needs, your customers? |
| 0:08.0 | Whatever your goals, look to Hitachi Energy for the right technologies to help unlock new revenue streams, |
| 0:13.3 | maximize renewable integration and lower carbon emissions. |
| 0:16.8 | Visit HitachiEnergy.com, slash offering, slash solutions, slash grid edge solutions. |
| 0:23.6 | This is The Energy Gang, a discussion show about the fast-changing world of energy. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm Ed Crookes. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:36.8 | This week, a breakthrough in power generation technology that's as big for energy as the |
| 0:41.2 | Wright Brothers first flight was for aviation. At least, that's what the company behind the project |
| 0:45.9 | says. We'll be looking behind the hype to assess the real potential of this new way to generate |
| 0:50.8 | electricity. Plus, as yet another independent energy retailer goes bust in the UK, |
| 0:55.9 | requiring a multi-billion-pound bailout, we investigate the pros and cons of competitive markets |
| 1:00.9 | for the energy transition. And also, the Biden administration has orchestrated an international |
| 1:05.9 | release of oil from strategic reserves, possibly with a bit too much success because the price of |
| 1:10.8 | crude absolutely collapsed last week. What is the administration's strategy, and is it really |
| 1:15.9 | compatible with a move towards net zero emissions for the US? To discuss these questions, |
| 1:22.8 | I'm joined as usual by Melissa Lot, who's director of research at the Central and Global Energy |
| 1:26.5 | Policy at Columbia University. Hello, Melissa. How are you? How was Thanksgiving? |
| 1:29.8 | Hey Ed, Thanksgiving was great. You know, enjoyed a couple of down days and a lot of delicious food |
| 1:35.2 | made by mostly my dad. But it was great. I just had a good time. We went on an impromptu road trip |
| 1:40.6 | actually out in the West Texas. So I saw a lot of wind turbines, which makes me happy. |
| 1:44.8 | And you also contributed a bit to US oil demand then? |
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