This premier annual meeting and conference provides a global forum for energy professionals to network with colleagues, build professional connections and develop potential partnerships. It is the perfect opportunity to connect with, share experiences and learn from the diverse group of professionals at the leading edge of solving the international energy industry’s problems.
Chris Russo moderates the session titled “A Special look at Nuclear Power.”
Nuclear power is surging as a non-carbon policy option in the U.S., Canada, China, and Korea. Some of the main commercial discussion drivers around nuclear energy focus on cost and safety. This session will discuss the potential pathways the nuclear industry can take in this environment. It will discuss how cost risks can be mitigated either through better policy interventions or through modularization of production. The session will also address how nuclear works side by side with a hydrocarbons paradigm in all likely
policy and commercial pathways in the currently projected energy demand growth scenarios.
Drake Hernandez moderates the panel discussion titled “Can Decarbonization Take Us to Net-Zero Without Subsidies?”
Decarbonization strategies look to capture carbon from incumbent energy processes or to replace some of these processes with less carbon intensive processes. The two typical forms of doing so are CCUS and a combination of replacing coal-fired generation with gas-fired generation and replacing any form of carbon fuels with renewables, with or without battery backup. CCUS and renewables are traditionally associated with significant governmental subsidies or compliance carbon markets. This panel will discuss whether these decarbonization approaches can continue apace in a less-supportive policy environment. In particular, it will look at demand growth for non-carbon energy from various industrial consumers as one potential avenue to continue decarbonization through CCUS and renewables at time of lessening subsidies. The panel will also discuss the impact of decreases in subsidies on obtaining financing and the issues of oversupply in Chinese renewable assets and the capacity constraint in the gas-turbine market.
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