Stream A: Strategies to Successfully Navigate, Accelerate & Support a Just Energy Transition
Plotting the roadmap for delivering renewable generation, electrification and CCS at scale:

How does electrification work in parallel to CCS and renewable gases? What is the priority? Where are the risks?
how and where will renewable energy investment and development be focused?

Identifying technical and funding support available - how does this differ across states and geographical regions? Natural gas is a transition fuel – what transitions natural gas?

Addressing the key barriers to decarbonization:

Risk, risk, risk: how do we manage it for projects that are large and in some cases, new?

Up-skilling and re-skilling opportunities and solutions

Technology and system costs and investment requirements

The cost of renewable products such as hydrogen – have we realized the promise?

Infrastructure constraints - grid modernization and repurposing assets

Environmental permitting

Managing community resistance

Outlining the evolution to a low carbon future for heavy emitting industries and energy-intensive users: how must they restructure their operations and adopt new business models and what support do they need to do this?

Leveraging the economic opportunities of the energy transition to deliver both social and stakeholder value

How do we truly ensure a just transition for communities in the developed world and for emerging economies?

Chair:

Jennifer Obertino, Senior Vice President & Global Energy Practice Leader, AECOM

Panelists:

Moshe Bonder, Director, Business Development Low Carbon Solutions, National Grid Ventures

Cutler Cleveland, Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Institute for Global Sustainability, Director & Co-Founder, Visualizing Energy

James Hasselbeck, COO, Revision Energy

Tej Gidda, Vice-President and Global Leader - Future Energy, GHD

Michael Lee, CEO, Octopus Energy

12:15pm Networking Lunch