Energypreneurs

Dr. Shannon Arvizu, a long term advocate and researcher of electric vehicles, shares her journey in the industry and explains how the policy scene has changed and where it's headed. Shannon also shares what it's like to be a Chevy Volt owner for over 10 years. Shannon and I discuss the waning influence of the fossil fuel industry on the transportation and energy sector and promising directions for the decade ahead. They conclude with a conversation about a recent Norwegian "climate thriller" series on Netflix called "Occupy.

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Is there a future for hydrogen in the Pacific? Maybe yes, maybe no, what about the electric vehicles? I discuss all these exciting transformational technologies and many more with Rafael Abbasov a seasoned Energy Specialist of the Asian Development Bank. Rafael started his career as a CFO of a state-owned power utility in the Caucus and then developed an energy project in the former Soviet countries in Central Asia. Today his challenges and ambitions are big: how do we bring new technologies and business models in the Pacific beyond just supplying solar power, batteries, or electric vehicles. Let's listen to this exciting episode.

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Speaking from the "Salad Bowl" of sunny California, Bill Shelvin, a seasoned CEO of multiple renewable energy and tech companies shares his vision about zero to negative carbon growth.

Bill is a-passionate about efficiency and moved from the real estate industry to sustainability and he sheds light on renewable energy, methane capture, hydroponics, and community vertical agriculture. His passion is about capturing CO2 from agricultural sources and add that back to growing more plants.

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Nigel Savidge, and international development professional, now living sustainability in their 5000 m² property in rural Victoria, Australia, growing vegetables and everything else.

He shares his view about sustainability and climate change—we talk about working from home, growing green tomatoes and gardening but at the same time the realities of climate he can now see.

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Jeff Wolfe, a serial entrepreneur, CEO of Veloce Energy, explains how he scaled up his small mom and pop solar company of 1998 to become the first nationwide residential solar company in the US. His today's passion is modular energy storage and charging that will eliminate the design for custom design and installation to minimize the use of space.

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Andrew Chakhoyan is an alumnus of the global leadership program at the World Economic Forum and is a regular contributor to the Forum Agenda blog. His latest piece was titled: "What has COVID-19 taught us about flattening the climate curve?" We discuss parallels between the Covid-19 crisis and climate change looking at both through the lens of global affairs and diplomacy Neither virus nor climate cares for national borders, and there is no better remedy than global cooperation to address such "tragedies of the commons."

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If there is a place to insert a link to the article here it is: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/we-need-to-flatten-the-curve-on-climate-too/

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Are we seeing the beginning of the end of coal, oil, and gas financing? Sonia Dunlop, a real third-generation environmentalist, brings optimism to our climate change discussion and explains why the Paris Agreement was a game-changer in the global climate landscape. We discuss financial instruments that are available to retire high carbon infrastructure because of the savings on energy bills. We discuss the role of energy efficiency, solar PV, batteries, and electric vehicles: the dramatic price reductions in all of these and their unimaginable impacts ahead. Why should countries be more ambitious in updating their national climate action plans to transform their economies? The new set of NDCs as part of the Paris Agreement could form part of the "blueprint" for COVID-19 recovery. We hope the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in November 2021 will see more ambitious targets for 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees, finance, and global cooperation on a greener recovery.

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Everty enables a charging station to talk to its client, an electric vehicle. Carola Jonas, the young CEO joins me to explain her startup company, its strategies, and how smart charging infrastructure will impact the energy sector.

We discuss pricing options and trends leading us towards 2030. We try to imagine the future where millions of autonomous EVs with large batteries connect to the grid and is able to send electricity to the grid (v2G) or another vehicle (v2V).

As you know, the future is electric, and charging infrastructure will be an essential element in that transformation

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Globally investors are moving investments away from financing coal projects. Today, we discuss with Mr. Alfredo Bano, the main author of the report, which made the bold recommendation that ADB formally withdraws from financing new coal projects. We discuss the future of the power sector and the changes that have happened and going to happen.

If you want to find more, please join us and find out the reasons behind this recommendation. Do you agree to the argument: "if not now when?"

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How urgent is Climate Change in the post COVID world?

How our climate discussion has changed over the years even within the Asian Development Bank. What can we expect at the next big climate discussion and what opportunities will it bring.

Let's find out from Preety Bhandari, the Chief of ADB's Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management

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