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How China is reshaping the global auto market
- ▶ 11:11 Michael Dunne And then after that, you have a big state enterprise called Shanghai Automotive, which is exporting products under the MG brand, the iconic British brand they acquired several years ago.
- ▶ 16:32 Michael Dunne Indonesia, Australia, the UK, across Europe, uh, virtually every legacy automaker is taking it on the chin, and the most vulnerable right now, there's two of them.
- ▶ 20:32 Michael Dunne Not only inside China, but we're seeing the Chinese autonomous vehicle makers move into the Middle East, and in the U.K. and Germany now, moving quicker to market than their U.S. counterparts, and this is where we're at risk.
- ▶ 30:25 Michael Dunne UK, no problem. 2 times in the scene
Surprising trends in global electricity generation
- ▶ 4:30 Nick Fulgham Uh, so that's twice the size of the UK's annual electricity demand.
Battery booms and the rise of flexibility [partner content]
- ▶ 1:39 unnamed speaker The company had emerged as a leading demand response provider in the UK and Ireland, and was beginning to expand globally.
- ▶ 5:54 Stephen Lacey So you have a unique window into how battery markets play out around the world, from the UK to Texas to Japan. 4 times in the scene
The rise of grid power electronics with Drew Baglino
- ▶ 10:51 Drew Baglino And there's, I mean, there's other DC links like between Europe and, uh, the UK or North Island and South Island and New Zealand.
A ‘rain delay’ for the energy transition [partner content]
- ▶ 14:57 Stephen Lacey They might, you know, have partnerships in China, they might move to Europe, Australia, the U.K.
Unpacking DOE's proposal to transform data center interconnection
- ▶ 32:40 Tyler Norris The UK has this whole curtailable connections program, and they actually remarkably, if, if they end up curtailing either the generator to the load more than what their sort of guarantee says, that they actually compensate the customer.
Calibrating hype with Akshat Rathi
- ▶ 3:03 Shayle Kann He's based in the UK himself, but he's also looking at, um, global dynamics in a way that I'm admittedly, and I've said this before, always a little bit too US centric or US and Europe centric and things that I tend to see and talk about.
- ▶ 4:07 Shayle Kann Uh, is that true for, I mean, Bloomberg is obviously based in the US, but, so I'm curious how you see it from the Bloomberg perspective, high level, but also in the UK and in Europe.
- ▶ 7:58 Akshat Rathi So we had the CEO of Octopus Energy, which is the largest utility here in the UK on the pod, and this year, they've launched a BYD lease program, where you can just
- ▶ 37:10 Akshat Rathi Um, and again, the hype is following on from America where, you know, countries like the UK are now asking Rolls-Royce to make a small modular reactor.
How insurance can narrow the valley of death [partner content]
- ▶ 21:11 Jamie Daggett So that's a real challenge in long duration because only a few markets like the UK cap and floor program are really even incentivizing these longer duration projects.
The U.S. nuclear groundswell
- ▶ 29:14 Chris Colbert Um, you want to be sure you have access to transmission, because I'll tell you that, you know, it's going to be easier to permit and get a nuclear plant built than it is to get new transmission lines, and that's just historically how it's…
Catalyst Live at SF Climate Week
- ▶ 4:11 Shayle Kann Octopus is a, uh, behemoth climate tech company based in the UK.
Serving data center load with carbon capture
- ▶ 7:46 Julio Friedmann There is one announced project that is under construction in the UK, and this is a large, uh, project in the Teesside, T-E-E-S-S-I-D-E, uh, facility in, uh, northern, uh, Scotland, and, uh, this is a place where they will be taking the CO₂…
- ▶ 25:30 Julio Friedmann The UK is very interested in this, and they are building these industrial hubs. 2 times in the scene
DAC’s bumpy road to commercial scale
- ▶ 38:41 Andreas Apley The SBTI guidance, uh, hopefully will include much more concrete steps on short-term targets for carbon removals, and we see the first beginnings of a compliance market evolving, for example, in Japan, in the UK, um, there's good,
The state of connected DERs [partner content]
- ▶ 5:16 Charlotte Johnson The UK has a similar number that national gridders put out for, I think it's 20 50, which is around 200 gigawatts of dispatchable capacity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 Charlotte Johnson So I think it depends who you are and the assets you are, but I don't think people fully understand this sometimes, but a battery in Texas last year, and by battery I mean a grid scale sort of front of the meter asset, made over four times… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 Stephen Lacey So in the UK and the US alone, we're talking about a half a terawatt of capacity, distributed resource capacity, getting installed very quickly here in the next couple of years. 2 times in the scene
CO2 utilization
- ▶ 13:33 Julio Friedmann In Europe, uh, in the UK, uh, this same kind of regulatory process is going well and is being executed faithfully.
How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy
- ▶ 4:22 Colin Grabow Uh, it's worth keeping in mind that, you know, the British were big rivals, uh, back then they had a big navy. 2 times in the scene
More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, curtailment, and AI
- ▶ 34:02 Nat Bullard But in the most recent print of data here from Transport and Environment in the UK, like, almost half of Europe's animal fat supply is not going towards biodiesel.
What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market?
- ▶ 9:34 Corey Cantor But if you look at Europe, you're seeing more in that 25% to 30% for UK, Germany, France, the major markets in Europe.
Sourcing biomass for carbon removal
- ▶ 14:47 Dr. Bodhi Cabiyo Um, this includes, uh, I have a colleague that has toured their facilities in the past and saw that they were pulling whole saw logs, which is, like, stuff you would turn into lumber, like, two-by-fours, pulling saw logs and turning it…
- ▶ 15:11 Shayle Kann Like, there's a company based in the southeastern United States that is taking wood, call it wood waste if you want, don't call it wood waste if you don't want, but either way, turning it into pellets, then shipping it across the ocean to…
2023 climate tech venture investment trends
Update: What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
EV charging on both sides of the pond
- ▶ 4:25 Shayle Kann His company, EV Energy, where, for full disclosure, EIP is an investor, uh, is based in the UK, but is active in helping utilities and retailers plan managed charging programs
- ▶ 6:48 Nick Woolley Ah, but in the, the UK is more similar to the US, has a concentrated network of, of charging infrastructure.
- ▶ 7:03 Shayle Kann Outside of the UK, where you have literally hundreds of different charging point operators, how is interoperability?
- ▶ 9:04 Nick Woolley I was chatting to an Uber driver who was taking me to the airport the other day, and he just bought an M, an MG in the UK market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:15 Nick Woolley Whether you are in Texas or Spain or the UK or California, you basically, that we see a massive spike
- ▶ 14:20 Nick Woolley And so the network companies, um, in the European market, say in the UK market, they operate the network, and they run the network, and they ensure that it's incredibly reliable, but they do not interface with consumers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 Nick Woolley Uh, the propositions that are being rolled out in competitive markets like the UK are tariffs which have now become known as what's called type of use tariffs.
- ▶ 27:58 Nick Woolley In the UK, they rolled out a regulation called the Smart Charging Regulations, which actually mandates every charger that goes into somebody's home now has to be smart and has to be controllable by the grid.
- ▶ 33:47 Nick Woolley A pretty benign country like the United Kingdom.
The cost of nuclear
- ▶ 8:59 Jessica Lovering So places like Sweden, um, the UK, even Belgium, um, which had a planned phase out of nuclear power, putting their phase out on hold for 10 years.
The food-energy nexus
- ▶ 16:03 Dr. Michael Webber Similar numbers in, say, the UK and other rich countries, so there's an incredible amount of food waste, and it's certainly a problem at the end of life when it decomposes and make methane, but I think of all the energy that went into…
- ▶ 19:11 Dr. Michael Webber So you have to think about your transportation mode, or lamb from New Zealand eaten in the UK is actually less energy intensive than the local English lamb, because the lamb in New Zealand's grown just off of rain-fed grass, whereas in… 4 times in the scene
Beaming 24/7 solar… from space
- ▶ 37:53 Sanjay Vijendran Um, and the, uh, the UK and the United Kingdom has recently also got into, got into the game, uh, as well.
Four ways to store sunlight
- ▶ 15:43 Andy Lubershane Um, there's a pretty classic example that I, that I cite in this article, um, which is, uh, called the kettle surge in the UK when, you 2 times in the scene
The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry
- ▶ 24:27 Alejandro de la Garza And, you know, reports just came out that a researcher in the UK has what amounts to another rogue geoengineering experiment, this time with a lot more instrumentation and sort of a
What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
What hydrogen leakage means for the climate
- ▶ 5:19 Shayle Kann There have been a few papers that have come out recently, both in the US and the UK, that have raised alarm bells to some degree regarding the possibility that hydrogen leakage into the atmosphere could
Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry
- ▶ 14:53 Varun Sivaram India and the United Kingdom and Germany, et cetera, and Sweden.
- ▶ 45:48 Varun Sivaram We have some Indian companies that are buyers, and so we, uh, we're delighted to partner with something called the Climate Investment Funds, the CIFS, which have recently launched a, uh, industry, uh, fund, uh, thanks to a infusion of…
Solving the conundrum of industrial heat
- ▶ 37:34 John O'Donnell Someone once said to me, why are, why is all the heavy industry in the UK on the coast?
Unpopular solar opinions, 2022 edition
- ▶ 35:39 Jenny Chase So I've been, I've been reading a bunch of UK proposals for my parents and others, and, um, also a few German ones, and, like, frankly, I think the salespeople are making it up.
What’s holding up hydrogen in Europe?
- ▶ 42:44 Shayle Kann Genevamir Fleas is an independent hydrogen consultant based in the UK.
Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire?
- ▶ 20:14 Jason Bordoff We have a new government, a new prime minister in the UK, immediately moving to, um, just cap energy prices, where the government's gonna subsidize the difference and control energy prices for people. 2 times in the scene
How to Save a Planet: Spark Tank! How Do We Solve the Energy Storage Problem?
- ▶ 10:02 Shayle Kann I have to say, though I like Shark Tank, I prefer the, you know, there's a British version of that game show, and they call it Dragon's Den in the UK.
Will this carbon market boom be different?
- ▶ 9:10 Nat Bullard The UK, which now has its own baby carbon market because it's out of the EU, was about twenty six billion dollars.
Will advanced reactors solve nuclear's problems?
- ▶ 29:55 Jake DeWitt Um, some of the reactors in the UK are, are, that are operating today are gas cooled reactors.
Is nuclear fusion getting close?
- ▶ 20:13 Dr. Scott Hsu About, well, the record is held by the JET device in the UK, which is, has achieved about 70%, but I think it's important to, again, clearly define that this is the fusion, instantaneous fusion power is, has been about 70% of the heating…
Can 'deeptech' venture capital solve climate change?
- ▶ 22:45 Ramez Naam It is completely obvious that renewables penetration is going up and up and up, and that focusing on decarbonization of grids is the first thing that policymakers around the world are doing, whether it's Europe as a whole, or the UK, now…