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Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero

Apr 25, 2024

Guests from Breakthrough Energy and Amara Raja Energy discuss scaling up advanced energy solutions for a net zero future. Topics include new technologies, global cooperation, AI in clean tech, battery applications, India's energy transition, and innovative business models empowering energy solutions.

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Episode guests

Maarten Michielssens

VK Samudrala

Ann Mettler

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Quick takeaways

Reducing the green premium for clean energy is crucial for competitive markets, requiring faster price competitiveness in wind and solar technologies.

Public-private partnerships are essential for advancing energy innovation, highlighting the need for collaboration between sectors to drive sustainable energy transitions.

Deep dives

Importance of Reducing the Green Premium for Clean Energy

Reducing the green premium for clean energy is crucial to creating competitive markets for wind and solar technologies. The long process of achieving price competitiveness in wind and solar took almost four decades, highlighting the urgency of speeding up this transition. Initiatives like breakthrough energy ventures focus on catalyzing new technologies to lower costs and scale up clean energy solutions. Strategies such as feed-in tariffs, as seen in Germany with solar, can help drive the adoption of new clean technologies by guaranteeing prices and supporting technology stand-up.

Introduction

2min

Driving the Energy Transition: Innovation and Policy Perspectives

12min

Harnessing AI and Clean Tech for Climate Change Mitigation

2min

Impressions and Challenges of Clean Technology Innovation at Energy Solutions Meeting

2min

Collaborative Energy Innovation and Battery Applications

6min

India's Energy Transition: Challenges and Solutions

6min

Empowering Energy Solutions Through Innovative Business Models

13min

Exploring Advancements in Energy Solutions and Electrification

4min

What are the new technologies that can help us reach net zero? And how do we bring them to scale fast enough?

World Economic Forum Managing Director Jeremy Jurgens joins us to talk about the Advanced Energy Solutions community, and we hear from three of its members, from widely different sectors and geographies, implementing the energy solutions of tomorrow.

Guests:

Ann Mettler, Vice President, Europe, Breakthrough Energy

VK Samudrala, President, Amara Raja Energy & Mobility

Maarten Michielssens, Founder and CEO, EnergyVision

Special Meeting

This episode is related to the Forum’s Special Meeting on Global Cooperation, Growth and Energy for Development held in Riyadh on 28-29 April 2024.

https://www.weforum.org/events/special-meeting-on-global-collaboration-growth-and-energy-for-development-2024/

Links:

Advanced Energy Solutions community: https://www.weforum.org/communities/advanced-energy-solutions-community/

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