Energypreneurs

Carmela (Candy) and Arnel Sevilla explain how they turned their dream and love for diving into a boutique hotel—"Portulano"—with its extensive diving facilities. They explain how they morphed into this lifestyle business from their high-pressure corporate jobs. Today Arnel plans to go 100% solar with batteries one day, and I think hydroponics and electric boats will also be an amazing addition to that plan.

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Portulano:

• San Pablo, Bauan, Batangas, Northside of Anilao, Philippines
• Tel: +639175404257
• (https://www.portulano.com)

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Dan Milison, takes us through the journey of his professional life —innovative projects, the climate leadership he has seen in three countries, and the BIG ideas he has. We get into the hot topic of today —Hydrogen; although I may not agree with some of the positive lights he sees in the hydrogen way, he does have a clear vision.

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Werner Liepach, Director-General, Asian Development Bank, discusses his fascinating, 28 year-long journey through different levels of ADB, and how the roles for a development bank have changed in the face of technological changes, the threat of climate change, and finally, Covid-19.

With a Ph.D. in financial engineering and a love for seeing places around the world, Werner shares the ideas and changes that he introduced as a senior development professional. Why just an idea for innovation is not enough - innovation needs communication, alliances, and long-lasting stamina.

We hear the mindset changes in the fossil fuel rich Central Asia because of cheap renewable energy, the opportunities for electrification of transport and some of the big ideas he was able to implement, especially in Pakistan.

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Durreh Tabassum, from the Infrastructure Investment team of the International Finance Corporation, shares her inspiration to work in the climate space and discusses the various technologies that are available today to achieve SDG 7. Starting from her family-owned power company, to one of the largest wind power generators, to World Bank, and now to IFC, Durreh carries the professional experience of hands on entrepreneurship to development financing in addressing the global energy transition.

We discuss many aspects of technology and development: digitization, regional cooperation, energy efficiency, hydrogen, and women in engineering.

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Agostinho Miguel Garcia from SunBD - Sun Business Development, analyzes the disruptions that low priced #solarpower is causing as the perception and attitude about solar power has changed over the years—30+ cents per kWh feed-in tariff in 2006 to 1.1 cents per kWh in the Portuguese auction of August 2020.

Today, even the underlying math for rehabilitation of old hydropower is challenging as building a new ground-mount or floating solar power may be quicker and cheaper.

Hear about CSP plants and hydrogen as seasonal storage and many more

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Sunniya Durrani-Jamal, Country Direction, Cambodia of ADB, shares her passion for development work in this inspiring discussion today. We hear journey at the Asian Development from Afghanistan to Indonesia to Cambodia.

We discuss our passion for development work and what keeps us motivated despite the hoops and red tapes that we face in our client countries and in our own organisation.

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How does one discuss climate change in a country, where almost all of its installed power generation capacity is from fossil fuels. This week, Seung Duck Kim, Energy Specialist, of Asian Development Bank explains the ongoing power sector restructuring in Uzbekistan and how its government is slowly moving away from fossil fuel in the face of its depleting gas reserve.

We also discuss the fate of regional cooperation as solar power becomes cheaper and cheaper destroying the concept of "energy-rich" and the "energy poor". We discuss electric vehicles, solar power, and energy efficiency Opportunities in Uzbekistan.

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Today, I talked with Monroe Zhang, a fan of Tesla and an EV enthusiast, who is also building batteries. I learned many of her ideas in her easy to understand language. Monroe brought a supplier's perspective to the EV industry, vehicle to grid technology, consumer choices, and consumer security.

Today she works and spends most of her time on all aspects of battery manufacturing from cell design, to BMS and battery packs. She shares the smart choices made by the car manufacturers by vertically integrating from sourcing minerals to building cars. We explore various ideas behind battery safety and related issues.

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Sarin Abado, Energy Specialist of Asian Development Bank shares her thoughts on the transition from fossil gas to green and renewable gas; why we need to discuss a scenario where gas may no longer be the gas as we know today. Sarin argues, if electricity can be renewable, why can't we look at renewable or green gas today technology allows to cross the strong barrier between a renewable energy asset and a fossil fuel asset.

We discuss contracts for difference and other instruments to augment today's approach to carbon pricing, and the benefits of renewable gas a seasonal energy storage, and many more.

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Victor, the co-founder of the GenixGreen, a battery design and manufacturing company, talks about his 12.5 kg. 1 kWh battery pack with BMS, which is about $250-$300. Victor believes, this plug and play system, that can directly connect DC and AC products, the future of off-grid solar. His company moved out of E-bike Batteries, as competition is huge but sees huge potential in-home storage segment. He explains why his company left the e-bike market and shares his insight on quality aspects of e-bikes.

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