Olivier Duguet, Founder and CEO of the onshore wind developer, The Blue Circle, imparted his experiences in wind project development across Europe and Southeast Asia. We discussed about the key influencers for the cost reductions and technological advancement in wind energy over the past decade, and elements underpinning The Blue Circle's successful bid in the 2023 Thailand Renewable Energy Auction.

Giles Cooper, Managing Partner in Vietnam at a leading international law firm Allens, shared his views on the recently approved Power Development Plan 8 (PDP8) in Vietnam. We discussed about the key highlights from the PDP8, the next steps and the broader implications for renewable energy development in Vietnam.

Putra Adhiguna, Energy technology lead in a think tank, explores Indonesia's nickel and battery industry and EV development. We discussed Indonesia's role in the global nickel supply chain and the key players shaping the local landscape. Putra shared his view on the impact of the choices made by legacy automakers on Indonesia's decarbonisation path and what the government can do to foster the development of the nickel industry and electrify Indonesia's roads.

Putra is Energy technology lead at Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)

Putra's articles:

• Indonesia’s nickel edge yet to show up in its electric vehicles

Kunal Shah Chief Growth Officer of Anaergia presents the importance of biogas and biomethane in reducing GHG emissions and their role as alternative renewable energy. The conversation also touched upon biogas and biomethane’s potential market size, global development, incentives, and their role in the energy transition journey.

Assaad Razzouk, CEO of Gurin Energy and host of the Angry Clean Energy Guy presents his new book "Saving the planet without the bullshit". His book cuts through the misinformation and provides straight-to-the-point solutions to the climate issue. Assaad offers readers clear and sometimes surprising advice on how to eat, how to drink, what to wear, and how to invest to fight climate change. He sheds light on actions that matter and the ones that does not. A core message of his book is why and how we should phase out oil, gas, and coal and why we can be distracted from this critical goal.

• His book: Saving the Planet without the bullshit

Jay Mariyappan, Partner at EEAM discussed the voluntary carbon markets. In this episode, Jay defines voluntary carbon markets in comparison to the compliance ones and explains how corporate commitments toward net zero are key drivers of the development of voluntary carbon markets. This episode also touches on the fundamental issue of heterogeneity and the quality of carbon offsets. In the end, Jay provides his view on the applicability of blockchain to this market.

Trista Chen, Partner at ERM, talks about her experience in the ESG industry. Trista shares her view on the development and trend in sustainability and ESG, broke down ESG due diligence process and sheds light on ESG standards and climate finance. Combining one case study on ESG due diligence of an e-cosmetic company, Trista also explained in detail how ERM's ESG due diligence is executed on the project level.

Maya Malik, founder of KimaEnergy speaks about her experience developing Taiwan offshore wind projects. Previously with Orsted and Copenhagen Offshores Partners, Maya shares her views about the 3 rounds of offshore wind tenders in Taiwan, the difficulties that developers are facing in this new round, the different offtake options and floating bottom technology.

Chris Starling, Partner at The Lantau Group, gave an overview of the Philippines electricity market and discussed recent the green energy auction program in the Philippines.

He shared his advice for companies looking to develop projects in the Philippines and discussed the different offtake structures available.

Jonathan Coppel, Head of the Energy Investment team at the International Energy Agency, presents the main findings of the Energy Investment 2022 report.

The two main takeaways of the report are 1) energy investment is expected to increase by 8% this year compared to just 1% on average over the previous 4 years (although half of the increase is due to cost increase) 2) We are, however, far short to an investment level allowing us to achievenet zero by 2050. Jonathan also discussed in detail trends in fossil fuel investment, clean energy investment, battery storage and sustainable finance.

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