The Challenges in the Energy Sector

This week we have a very special episode on Energy Unplugged where we focus the discussion around a book. Our Managing Director in APAC & California, Hugo Batten and Kimberly Liu, our Head of Research in California are delighted to be joined by Katherine Blunt, Energy Reporter at The Wall Street Journal. 

Katherine is the author of “California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid”, a history of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), one of California's major utilities. 

Main topics include:

•PG&E and its major challenges were over last 10-15 years
•The future of PG&E and how do they resolve their current challenges
•Regulation of transmission as one of the central challenges identified in the book 
•The challenges of regulating the energy transition

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