Anna Orthofer
Partner, McKinsey & Company. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Anna Orthofer is an economist and McKinsey partner focusing on the energy transition and decarbonization. She has co-authored notable research on scaling climate technologies and conducted pioneering empirical research on wealth inequality in South Africa.
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Everything Anna Orthofer said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Orthofer: Only 10% of net-zero abatement potential is fully mature today
“And when we do that, we actually find that only about 10% of the abatement potential that, that we need to get to net zero is in this in global deployment or a sort of fully mature category which is a lot less, I think, than we would have hoped.”
Orthofer: Max 30% of abatement needs commercially viable by late 2030s
“Despite sort of huge cost down historically and projected, we will not get to more than 20 or 30% of all abatement needs being sort of fully in the money or fully sort of commercially mature by the end of the 20 thirties, which I guess is a rather, was for me …”
Orthofer: Western observers overestimate global commercial viability of climate tech
“And I think we tend to overestimate a little bit the share of technologies that are really fully viable because we do tend to be based in, in, in geographies where we have a lot of support systems. And because we tend to work with companies who are early adopt…”
Orthofer: Green hydrogen cost parity delayed 5 to 8 years past 2030
“If I look back at our forecast from 20 20, for when we would achieve cost parity between green hydrogen and grey hydrogen, we said this would be by the end of this decade. I think by now we've moved that out by five to eight years, depending on geography, just…”
Orthofer: Forecasts consistently overestimate fusion, hydrogen, and CCS progress
“So there's some sets of technologies that we consistently overestimated, and those are the technologies that are always just around the corner, but somehow they haven't panned out to the extent that we predicted. And those are things like nuclear fusion or thi…”
Orthofer: Forecasters consistently underestimate solar and battery deployment speed
“I think the second thing is indeed to what extent we keep underestimating the speed at which solar and batteries to some extent also wind, but to a less extent have achieved cost savings and actually are deployed.”
Orthofer: Electrolyzer stack costs could fall up to 70% by 2034
“Where the electrolyzer stack can represent about currently about half of the costs that can come down a lot, right? And we see 50, 60, 70% cost down Potential over the next decade through many, through better manufacturing, through efficiency improvements and …”
Orthofer: Industrialization drove most solar and battery cost declines last decade
“So the first wave of cost down for solar and batteries was actually largely driven by R&D. These were advances in cell chemistries increases in efficiencies, and so on. It really drove the cost down. But already in the last decade for both of these technologie…”
Orthofer: 12 climate tech sectors capture 90% of 2050 abatement needs
“So these 12 buckets together capture around 90% of the abatement need until 20 50.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Anna's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | Partner, McKinsey & Company | 1 | 10 | 100% 6/6 | full record on the Green Blueprint → |