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Energy Terminal Weekly Newsletter
July 21st 2022 | Issue #15 | Subscribe here
Happy Thursday!
Welcome to the ET weekly, a platform dedicated to elevating the next week of energy leaders. In this week's issue we cover:
⚡The future of fusion
🌏 Global climate policies
🔋 The obstacles to expanding energy storage
💌 Making zero emissions a reality
😡Climate failures
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📚 Reading List (7/11 - 7/18)
Energy storage? Fusion projects? Climate politics? Check out this week’s handpicked reading list to learn more about these groundbreaking energy topics 🔥
🎙️Podcasts:
Carbon Copy, The people-centric transition to zero emissions
Summary 📖 :
Customers need to be willing to decarbonize their own lifestyles to get our world to net zero
This is done through action items such as solar installations and the use of electric vehicles
Electric Vehicles can be used to increase grid stability, and if charged at certain times, can enhance their benefits for both the environment and the customer
Education for customers on new energy technologies and their benefits for both the individual and the grid need to be more easily accessible
Redefining Energy, Batterytech, VCs, SPACs: “There will be blood”
Summary 📖 :
Joined by Jeff Chamberlain, CEO of Volta Energy Technologies a $400m VC fund
With an explosion of energy storage technologies and ventures, investment dollars are pouring into the vertical, but there are key risks and warnings to watch out for
Scaling and integrating with existing supply chains and infrastructure is one of the most significant obstacles to expanding energy storage technology
Climate 21, China – Climate Hero, or Climate Villain?
Summary 📖 :
China accounts for 30% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, but the per capita emissions is comparatively low (7 tonnes) to the US’s (14-15 tonnes)
Still a developing country, the Chinese government targets a carbon peak by 2030 and neutrality by 2060
In China, double the EVs were sold in 2021 than in 2020, at roughly 3.3 million units
📰️ Articles:
The New York Times, An American Climate Failure
Summary 📖 :
Joe Manchin III, senator of West Virginia, says he would not support any proposals to fund climate or energy programs
United States is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases per capita in world
Manchin’s rejection of climate policy makes it impossible for Biden to enact climate legislation
Forbes, Huge Growth in Fusion Energy Industry, Shows New Report
Summary 📖 :
Private fusion company funding has doubled in past year, amounting to $4.8 bn
Kyoto Fusioneering, a 2019 tech startup, has begun constructing the first integrated testing facility for fusion power plant equipment
The potential of fusion is huge, it could be a driver of decarbonizing our global economy
New fusion investments may make this source a reality in two decades
Reuters, EU launches 5.4-billion-euro hydrogen project
Summary 📖 :
Jointly funded by 15 EU countries and 35 companies, including Daimler Trucks, Enel, and Orsted
Funding will support 41 projects focused on hydrogen generation storage, and distribution, particularly in the mobility sector
Largely spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Europe seeks to diversify its energy resources
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