In this episode, we explore some of the challenges our teams have had to overcome as they take their projects from theory to practice. We speak to two of our partnerships - one from Hertfordshire and the other from the London Borough of Sutton. Joining us are Julie Greaves from Hertfordshire County Council, Michael Page from the University of Hertfordshire, Dermot Barnes from the London Borough of Sutton Council and Stephen Evans from UCL Energy Institute.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/public-policy/net-zero-innovation-programme-ucl-and-local-government-association-collaboration

Together Towards Net Zero - Responding and Overcoming Challenges

For the latest techUK podcast we have spoken to some of our most innovative members following COP26. We open with an interview with Elena Avesani from Oracle on their approach to net zero. We follow this with a discussion with Helen Grundy from Hitachi who talks through how digitising infrastructure can help deliver decarbonisation.

In the third section we talk to Veera Johnson and Will Wells, two clean tech start up founders to talk through the investment appetite for climate tech and how positioning a firm as clean tech can help drive interest.

Lastly we speak to Matt Houlihan from Cisco, on his reflections as a COP26 partner and the challenges of setting robust climate targets in a multinational business.

Visit our Climate action hub here: https://www.techuk.org/accelerating-innovation/climate-action-hub.html

Tech and Net Zero

Energy price crises are usually triggered by external events. But the UK has been hit particularly hard by the global gas price increases, and for mainly home-grown reasons. This is the first net zero energy prices crisis and, unless action is taken, there will be many more to come. There are two main reasons: the energy system is not designed to handle the intermittency of the renewables; and the legacy costs from past subsidies on renewables confront consumers with rising prices when costs are falling. They both need to be urgently addressed, because the 2035 target to completely decarbonise the electricity system is a mere 13 years away. 

The key steps were set out in the Cost of Energy Review in 2017: socialise the legacy costs, split out the system operators so that they can oversee the pathway to the net zero targets, move away from wholesale markets to Equivalent Firm Power so that those who cause  intermittency have to pay for it, and make the polluters (ultimately you and me who buy the power) pay the costs through proper carbon energy pricing. Short-term sticky plasters, such as abolishing VAT, will make matters worse, and abolishing the price cap (or even shortening the period) will encourage a return to some of the appalling behaviour in the supply market before the cap was introduced and avoid the obvious necessity to regulate the market properly. Better to get on with the fundamental reform as set out in the Cost of Energy Review and tell the public the truth: that net zero is going to cost, and, without reform, it is going to cost a lot. And if politicians are not prepared to say this, then admit that all the hype at Glasgow from the UK side was just that - hype.

The first net zero energy crisis

Prof Neil Ward argues the changes needed for climate change mitigation in agriculture in the UK are less dramatic than those between the 1940-1980s but more challenging owing to the different neo-liberal ideology prevailing now. We discuss the changes instigated in the Second World War in UK agriculture, their impact,  the challenges posed by climate change today, and two contrasting land sparing and land sharing approaches to reaching a net zero target for food and farming.

Net zero, food and farming - climate change and the UK agri-food system

On this episode of the Energy Security Cubed Podcast, Kelly Ogle speaks with Gregory Brew about possible sanctions and other economic punishments for Russia's energy industry following the invasion of Ukraine.

Guest Bio:
- Gregory Brew is Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. You can find him on Twitter at @gbrew24

Host Bio:
- Kelly Ogle is the CEO of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute

What is Greg reading?
"The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War", by Nicholas Mulder - https://www.amazon.ca/Economic-Weapon-Rise-Sanctions-Modern/dp/0300259360

Recording Date: February 25, 2022

Energy Security3 is part of the CGAI Podcast Network. Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary.

Produced by Joseph Calnan. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Energy Security Cubed: Punishing Russian Energy for the Invasion of Ukraine with Gregory Brew

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Dick Schmalensee, a professor emeritus of the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former chair of the board of directors at Resources for the Future. Schmalensee and Raimi cover the takeaways from a recent study on the future of energy storage that Schmalensee coauthored, along with related insights and implications for current and future policy. They discuss the role of energy storage in a net-zero-emissions electricity system, the strengths and weaknesses of key energy storage technologies, and what these technologies might cost.

References and recommendations:

“The Future of Energy Storage” by Robert Armstrong, Yet-Ming Chiang, Howard Gruenspecht, Fikile Brushett, John Deutch, Seiji Engelkemier, Emre Gençer, Robert Jaffe, Paul Joskow, Dharik Mallapragada, Elsa Olivetti, Richard Schmalensee, Robert Stoner, Chi-Jen Yang, Bjorn Brandtzaeg, Patrick Brown, Kevin Huang, Johannes Pfeifenberger, Francis O’Sullivan, Yang Shao-Horn, Meia Alsup, Andres Badel, Marc Barbar, Weiran Gao, Drake Hernandez, Cristian Junge, Thaneer Malai Narayanan, Kara Rodby, and Cathy Wang; https://energy.mit.edu/research/future-of-energy-storage/

“As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces an ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’” by Christopher Flavelle; https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/climate/salt-lake-city-climate-disaster.html

“A durable US climate strategy … or a house of cards?” by Richard Richels, Benjamin Santer, Henry Jacoby, and Gary Yohe; https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/06/a-durable-u-s-climate-strategy-or-a-house-of-cards/

The Future of Energy Storage, with Dick Schmalensee

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 143

Canada is in a lot of trouble, but few of us realize how far back the trouble really began. In 1968, Canada was swept with a madness affectionately called "Trudeaumania," and a new prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, was swept into office with an interest in making major transformational changes to the Canadian circumstance. Though his ambitions were greater than what the political environment in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s could tolerate, the elder Trudeau shifted policies and government institutions strongly into the radical model championed even today by some of the most concerning outfits on the planet, including the World Economic Forum (WEF), United Nations (UN), and the infamous neo-Malthusian "Club of Rome." In fact, in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay exposes that Pierre Trudeau worked closely with the Club of Rome (https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh-57-2-2021-0101/) before it officially launched and set Canada's environmental policy from its outset in line with their wicked ambitions. Join him to learn how deeply infected the Canadian Liberal Party is, and has been for fifty years, with bad Communistic ideas like "degrowth" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/08/degrowth-wests-leap-backwards/), "sustainable development" (https://newdiscourses.com/2021/10/sustainability-tyranny-21st-century/), "inclusion" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/11/the-fraud-of-diversity-and-inclusion/), "Net Zero" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/05/absolute-zero-and-the-western-holodomor/), and the "well-being economy" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/11/degrowth-distributism-well-being-economy/).

References:
[1] EARTH4ALL: DEEP-DIVE PAPER 17 The system within: Addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems transformation: https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Earth4All_Deep_Dive_Jamie_Bristow.pdf
[2] Environmental Aspirations in an Unsettled Time: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Club of Rome, and Canadian Environmental Politics in the 1970s: https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh-57-2-2021-0101
[3] Erich Jantsch's 1972 Evolutionary Ladder of Interdisciplinarity: https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2-Part-of-Jantschs-1972-evolutionary-ladder-of-interdisciplinarity-adapted-from-.png

Pierre Trudeau, the Club of Rome, and the Degrowth of Canada

Decarbonising the power system by 2030 and accelerating to net zero is one of Labour's five key missions. But this extremely ambitious target means moving much faster than the previous government managed. So how much progress has the Labour government already made, and what more could it do to speed up delivery?

The government’s first weeks in office saw it remove restrictions on onshore wind farms and put GB Energy and the National Wealth Fund into motion. So what impact have these actions had? What other steps could the government take to accelerate its missions?  

And with controversial announcements such as a third runway at Heathrow, what are the potential pitfalls to look out for, both to achieving the clean power mission and then accelerating to net zero? 

To answer these questions and more, this IfG event brought together an expert panel, including: 

Rosa Hodgkin, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government
Fintan Slye, CEO of the National Energy System Operator
Chris Stark, Head of Mission Control for Clean Power 2030
Dhara Vyas, CEO of Energy UK
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government.

This event is part of a research project supported by a grant from the European Climate Foundation.

How can the government accelerate its clean power mission?

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