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SparkMeter offers grid-management solutions that enable utilities worldwide to run profitable, efficient, and reliable systems. Their investors include mutual friends at Clean Energy Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Elemental Impact. Dan's prior experience includes work at DNV GL and a PhD in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon. In this episode, you'll learn these four important takeaways. How an 8th-grade science project and a trip to Haiti laid the foundation for this company Why they chose to build solutions involving hardware, software, and communications instead of just one or two of those pieces How their structured customer discovery channeled 75 utility executive interviews into the formation of their new product offering Why we shouldn't wait for a crisis to start building health relationships with mindfulness and therapy tools like IFS

In dieser spannenden Folge des Karriere Insider Podcast spricht David Döbele mit Carsten Linker, Head of Group Treasury & Group Accounting bei der Pfleiderer Group. Als Treasurer gibt uns Carsten faszinierende Insights aus seiner Konzernkarriere, in Laufe dessen er für die Vermögen ganzer Unternehmen verantwortlich war.   Carstens LinkedIn-Profil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carsten-linker-979236176/ Verband Deutscher Treasurer: https://www.vdtev.de/   Timestamps   00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:53 - Carstens Werdegang 00:03:28 - Bankausbildung und dann Studium an der Ruhr Uni Bochum 00:05:58 - Einstieg bei Hochtief 00:08:09 - Was ist Treasury? 00:12:07 - Praktikum im Treasury bei der Metro AG während des Studiums 00:13:05 - Risikomanagement im Treasury 00:14:28 - Ab wann macht eine Treasury Abteilung Sinn? 00:16:37 - Karriere bei Hochtief 00:19:22 - Mit welchen Banken man im Treasury arbeitet 00:20:41 - Wie Kredite verhandelt werden 00:22:31 - Die Expertisen, die mitgebracht werden 00:24:16 - Arbeitsalltag im Treasury 00:26:27 - IB-Exit ins Treasury ist selten 00:27:00 - Wechsel nach 8 Jahren von Hochtief zu Germanischer Lloyd AG 00:30:18 - Beim Merger mit DNV GL ging es nach Norwegen 00:31:34 - Mentalität der Norweger im Vergleich zu den Deutschen 00:33:13 - Beratung war für Carsten nie eine Option 00:34:46 - Wechsel zur Pfleiderer Group nach Geburt des Sohnes 00:36:18 - Oil Trading - Was ist das? 00:38:02 - Was ist Pfleiderer? 00:39:14 - Carstens Aufgaben bei Pfleiderer 00:41:38 - Wie sehen die Vermögenswerte von Unternehmen in der Regel aus? 00:44:07 - Finanzierung im Treasury 00:46:41 - Wie kommt man auf 750 Mio. 00:49:00 - Carstens Tagesablauf 00:50:11 - Gehaltsmöglichkeiten im Treasury 00:52:55 - Tagesgeschäft  00:55:11 - Übliche Finanzschwankungen 00:56:27 - Treasurer als Spielverderber 00:57:36 - Treasury während der Coronakrise 00:59:41 - Welche Themen sind aktuell wichtig? 01:00:53 - Sinnvolle Hard- und Softskills im Treasury 01:03:52 - Wie sich KI auf den Beruf auswirkt 01:04:09 - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium ist nach wie vor am wichtigsten 01:05:05 - Einstiegsmöglichkeiten für Berufsanfänger  01:07:36 - Lieber größer als kleiner greifen 01:08:21 - Carsten empfiehlt den Einstieg nach dem Master 01:09:03 - Was, wenn Einsteiger sich umorientieren wollen? 01:12:57 - Produktivitätsroutinen 01:15:09 - Umfeld und Netzwerk 01:21:49 - Kleines Q&A 01:27:07 - Outro   Weitere hilfreiche YouTube-Videos:   INVESTMENT BANKER WERDEN (Guide): https://youtu.be/nT0haK_NCIc  UNTERNEHMENSBERATER WERDEN (Guide): https://youtu.be/50Hg3nO09HA  Die besten Unis für den Bachelor: https://youtu.be/n-YSo8ss0Ks  Die besten Unis für den Master: https://youtu.be/fdKknPZzO4w  ALLE JOBS NACH DEM BWL-STUDIUM: https://youtu.be/D1Ssf6uAQlY  ALLE FINANCE JOBS nach dem BWL-Studium: https://youtu.be/6kD05whSvEU  Wenn du dich für den Berufseinstieg in Investment Banking, Unternehmensberatung oder Private Equity interessierst, haben wir hier einige nützliche Links für dich zusammengefasst.   BWL-Masterplan: https://bwl-masterplan.com/?htrafficsource=organic&hcategory=yt_organic&el=CarstenLinker Der BWL-Masterplan ist ein 11-stündiger Videokurs, der dir sehr übersichtlich aufzeigt, was dich während eines ambitionierten BWL-Studiums erwartet. 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In this episode, Anthony Wang, co-founder of ETFuels, describes his company's business model of using renewable energy to make green hydrogen, then using the hydrogen to make carbon-neutral methanol.(PDF transcript)(Active transcript)Text transcript:David RobertsAnthony Wang, a mechanical engineer by training, spent years as a researcher on hydrogen technologies. He worked with governments to develop policy and infrastructure plans — he was project manager on the EU's big hydrogen backbone project — and with private companies like Total and Shell to develop hydrogen technology roadmaps. He has authored or co-authored several industry-defining reports on hydrogen and been cited in countless publications.A few years ago, he decided to throw his hat in the ring and try to actually build hydrogen projects in the real world. All his research and contacts in the energy world led him to a very specific — and, to me, extremely intriguing — business model.ETFuels, the company he co-founded, develops projects that couple giant off-grid renewable energy installations with hydrogen electrolyzers; it then uses the resulting green hydrogen to synthesize carbon-neutral liquid fuels. (First up is methanol for shipping, but the company plans to branch out into other e-fuels.)This model somehow manages to implicate half the stuff I'm interested in these days — green hydrogen, markets for hydrogen fuels, off-grid renewables, coupling renewables directly with industrial loads — so I was eager to talk with Wang about it. We dug into the limits of “electrify everything,” the difficulty of transporting hydrogen, and the economics of e-fuels, among other things.This one gets fairly deep in the weeds, but if you find the real-world challenges of developing clean-energy projects interesting, you don't want to miss it. All right, then, with no further ado, Anthony Wang. Welcome to Volts. Thanks so much for coming.Anthony WangThank you so much for having me, David.David RobertsSo you were sort of recommended to me as somebody who knows a lot about hydrogen, about sort of green hydrogen, the markets. I know you've worked with public on policy roadmaps. I know you've worked with private companies on technology roadmaps. So I know you've given a lot of thought and sort of analysis to the green hydrogen phenomenon, the green hydrogen market. And you settled when you decided to start a company of your own, you co-founded this company, ETFuels. You settled on a very particular business model, which I just find sort of fascinating as it sort of implicates half the things I'm interested in these days in the energy world.So I wanted to just run through it with you and talk about why you made the choices you did and get into some of the bigger issues that way. So just for listeners' benefit, the idea here is you find a big piece of land somewhere out in the middle of nowhere. You build a bunch of renewable energy, mostly solar, maybe some wind. Instead of hooking the renewable energy up to a grid, you pipe it directly into electrolyzers and make green hydrogen out of it. And then instead of exporting the green hydrogen or selling the green hydrogen, you use the green hydrogen, combine it with CO2 to make methanol, basically, carbon-neutral methanol, which you are then going to sell to shipping companies. So that's a big puzzle. That's a big puzzle with lots of pieces put together. So I want to kind of start at the front end of it. My intuitive reaction to this is you're taking valuable renewable energy and then you're converting it to hydrogen, you lose a lot in that conversion, and then you convert it again to methanol and you lose a lot in that conversion as well. It sounds sort of inefficient.So the question comes up like, why not just sell the renewable energy? So why off-grid in the first place?Anthony WangFor us, obviously, it depends where you're talking in the world, right? So renewable energy, if you can get it connected to the grid, you're completely right, it's extremely valuable. I mean, you've seen what prices of power have done in the last couple of years in Europe and in the US. And if you can use it to electrify your vehicles or heat up a heat pump, that's a very good use of that renewable energy. That said, there are many places in the world where solar and wind, on a levelized cost of production basis, are the lowest cost sources of energy we have.And on top of that, most of these locations are not connected to grids. And so one question that always puzzled me a bit was everyone's talking about renewable energy getting cheaper and cheaper and being the lowest cost source there is. So why, why aren't we seeing that being reflected at all in, in the prices that we see a) on the wholesale market, and b) ultimately on our bills at the end of the month? And thought a lot about this, and I'm not an economist, but it does seem to me that while we've got very good at producing renewable energy in a very cheap way, I'd argue it's the cheapest that we've got.We seem to have made a lot less progress in transporting, storing and balancing that renewable energy in a way that meets the consumer when they need it, where they need it. We know also that the energy transition is going to put this massive strain on power grids. Today we transport about 20% of our final energy through the grid. And in a fully decarbonized system, I mean, depending who you talk to, that number should be going up to 60, 70, 80%. We should electrify as much as we can. But that also means that we need about three, four, five times the number of cables, transformers and substations.And right now the grid does not seem to be set up to deliver that. And so we wanted to marry that problem in a way with an opportunity that we saw in producing hydrogen. And obviously, when you lose 30% through energy, conversion losses. That's a huge deal if your power is super valuable. It's a lot less of a big deal when your power is virtually free, depending on where you are.David RobertsSo sort of to summarize that renewable energy itself at the point of production is super cheap, but all these balance of system costs, mainly transmission and distribution, end up boosting the cost anyway. So your idea is just to use the cheap renewable energy and avoid all those other costs. Basically just use the cheap energy directly and not have to pay those additional costs?Anthony WangYeah, exactly. And cost is quite a simple way of capturing it. But there's lots of other things right in projects it's also time. The biggest risk in developing renewable projects is often getting the grid connection permit. I think, not to bash too much on the grids, I've got lots of good friends there, but the numbers speak for this. So if you look at the US, I think the Berkeley National Lab found there's a two gigawatt backlog or 2000 gigawatts, sorry, of PV, wind and storage.David RobertsYeah. Terawatts.Anthony WangTerawatts, exactly. Which is like almost double of the installed capacity base today. And you see similar numbers in Europe. And the cost of interconnection, the deposits that developers are asked to put down are twice what they used to be. They can be almost as big as your CapEx of your solar project. So it's lots of things that have come together that are just making it very difficult to connect the phenomenal amounts of renewables that are available to the demand where it is.David RobertsSo, I'm curious how you see this playing out. Because the enthusiasm is for electrifying everything and as you say, that's going to mean like four or five times our grid capacity and nowhere that I know of is a shining example of how to build grid capacity that much, that fast. I don't know that anyone's doing it. So, do you think that is going to be a serious constraint at the macro level on electrifying everything? Do you think that's going to push a lot of activities to this sort of off-grid model?Anthony WangWe hope so. At ETFuels we're definitely pushing it. Look, I've got nothing against the electrify narrative. I think it makes total sense and where we can, we should. But the reality is that it's incredibly difficult. I mean, we're finding this ourselves. We're trying to develop projects which are in the middle of nowhere. And even there, permitting and consent can be a challenge. So, imagine building a transport cable that crosses the entire country. These transmission highways in Europe, we're talking about the European super grid. Governments are trying to kind of coordinate about who gets what space in the North Sea.We're talking about kind of hydrogen backbones that should cover the entire continent. And you can just see the political and practical implementation challenge of doing projects like that I think. I was working closely on a hydrogen pipeline project between Spain and France, these countries putting a pipe through the Pyrenees. I think now they've landed on kind of putting it through the Mediterranean Sea and said, you see presidents shaking hands about which pipelines should happen and then it still takes eight, ten, twelve years before they're actually implemented. So, I think it's a question of let's do everything as much as we can and whichever one gets to market first, you should have some merit to that.David RobertsRegular listeners will know that. I'm sort of fascinated by this question. We had John O'Donnell from Rondo, the heat battery company on and that's sort of his thesis of his company is kind of the same logic. The grid constraints are going to push a lot of renewables off-grid. Basically, they're going to be coupled directly with industrial applications and just skip all the grid stuff, which I find a fascinating trend. That's one of the reasons your kind of business model caught my eye. So then you're generating all this variable renewable energy which notoriously comes and goes, waxes and wanes, sort of out of your control and you're using it to make green hydrogen.So part of the conventional wisdom that I always hear is that's a bad match because electrolyzers need to be run a lot of the time to pay off. Basically to be worth the investment, they need what's called a high capacity factor. And if they're sort of tied to variable renewables, how do you think about that problem? Have you thought about putting anything in between them? This is the heat battery question again. Have you thought about putting anything in between them to smooth the supply of the energy to the electrolyzers? Or is a lower capacity factor just a cost you think is worth bearing?Anthony WangYeah, a really good question. Obviously when we started the business that was probably the first question that we looked into because obviously we're only doing this because we think that we have a commercially viable proposition and we can provide hydrogen at lower cost than what is currently available on the market. And fundamentally when you look at this equation, you're kind of balancing three variables, right? You've got on the one hand, your cost of power. Secondly, you've got the number of hours that you're able to run your kit on that power, which obviously is lower with renewables.And then the third is just the cost of the kit itself. So let's say the CapEx of the electrolyzer and the cost of balancing the power. And when we look at modeling this out across the year, there are places in Europe, in the world where your renewable energy wouldn't be producing often enough for this to be worth it, right? So if you only have a solar production model in the north of Europe, then it's probably not going to work. You can't run your electrolyzer for 1000 hours a year and hope it to make money but there are also places where it definitely can work.And you're seeing lots of projects these days which actually combine solar and wind together in these types of hybrid configurations. And that's useful, one because they're not entirely I mean, so wind is a bit more expensive, but it runs a bit more often. But then on top of that, depending on where you are and there are special deserts where this is particularly the case where the wind and solar production hours actually very anticorrelate very well, where you essentially have solar during the day and then wind which mainly blows at night, not exclusively, but mainly at night. And when you combine those two, you can get very, very steady profiles up to 5500 hours a year of essentially base load production.And when you spread that across an electrolyzer, and especially obviously today electrolyzers are still quite expensive, but going forward their cost will come down. You'll see that the numbers actually pan out very well. And when we've done the math, we come to conclusions where depending on the power that you're using but if you're comparing a hybrid solar wind project in, let's say, the deserts of Chile or in the Middle East or in Western Australia, you can easily get to production costs of hydrogen that are 40% lower than if you were using grid connected power, paying essentially wholesale prices in Northern Europe. So that's on the economic side.Then there's of course the question around can the electrolyzer even run flexibly?David RobertsRight.Anthony WangAnd this is a bit more of a technical question. Obviously, you've got different technologies. You've got PEM, so the Proton Exchange Membrane electrolysis, and you've got alkaline ones. PEM is more flexible. But even the latest kind of pressurized alkaline models are able to run flexibly depending on their ramp rate. The specific model, you may need to add a small battery in between. But in principle you don't need to run, especially if you got 6000 full load hours from your renewables. You're mainly looking at balancing on the kind of second to minute level and the technologies that are on the market today can handle that.So you don't need any additional storage. It's more of just a pure economic thing. If your power price is low enough and your hours are good enough, then you can make it work.David RobertsRight. So two things: You go to places where a hybrid renewable system can actually reach relatively steady production and then you go to places where the power is super, super cheap. So what about electrolyzers then? Let's talk about electrolyzers because you're saying you're going to produce green hydrogen that's cheaper than what's on the market. Is that purely because the power you're making it with is going to be cheaper? Or is there something about your electrolyzers that is special?Anthony WangYeah, and just to clarify, so when we say our green hydrogen is cheaper, I'm comparing to other green hydrogen projects, not the fossil hydrogen projects that are of course hydrogen that's on the market.David RobertsBrown or —Anthony WangYeah, exactly.David Robertsgray or whatever the hell.Anthony WangSo, that stuff's definitely cheaper at the moment. So for us, the innovation is not in the electrolyzer technology itself. We're not an equipment supplier or manufacturer with our own technology. Our development IP, I suppose, is in the integration of the different technologies. So we haven't really spoken about the methanol component, we'll get there. But what we essentially do is we find the optimal end-to-end project configuration that makes the economics work for the final offtaker. Because we start with what is the price that we need to hit for our final product, which is methanol, we'll talk about, it can be a bankable commercially viable product.And then we work backwards. So then we reverse engineer. Okay, what does that mean in terms of the electrolyzer size? What does that mean in terms of the hydrogen storage size? What does that mean in terms of the solar to wind ratio? What does that mean in terms of the battery if you need to add one? And so what we've done is we've optimized that end to end. And what you'll see is that you might have to do some slightly unintuitive sizing decisions from an engineering perspective. So that's kind of where our added value sits. And also just in terms of the development of those individual pieces of the project and pushing them forward at the same time.David RobertsYeah, I'm wondering how much now because even if you have a hybrid renewable system, I'm wondering how much sort of overbuilding you do to try to boost that capacity factor. Like are you overbuilding and throwing away a lot of power just because it's so cheap?Anthony WangYeah, we do a little bit of that. So maybe a couple of things. So a typical project for us, what that looks like we're actually developing in Europe and in the US. So in the US, a site will be very big, 8000 acres, which is 8000 football pitches. European ones, I think the American ones are half the size it's like 8000 ... Anyway, you get the point. It's huge. And most of that's earmarked for onshore wind. So about 6000 acres is onshore. Turbines are spaced far apart, so you need a lot of land. And the remaining 2000 acres is a mix of solar PV and the process plant itself.And that will give you about, I mean, these are rough numbers, but about 200 to 300 megawatt of onshore wind, one to 200 megawatt of solar PV. So you're looking at a combination of, let's say 400 renewables. And then we would probably put an electrolyzer that's around half the capacity next to that. So a 200 megawatt input electrolyzer. And that sounds like a very big delta. But actually, if you look at lots of the studies that have been done, they come to similar conclusions because you don't end up curtailing anywhere near half of the power you end up curtailing only a fraction of what you produce because there's only very few hours where both the solar and the wind are producing at peak.David RobertsRight.Anthony WangMaybe just to complete the picture of the project. So that produces about 20,000 tons of hydrogen a year, depending on your load factor, which is a lot of hydrogen. That's I think the equivalent of about 30'000 to 40,000 Tesla Model 3 batteries in a day that's getting produced.David RobertsSo the electrolyzer part to you is mostly just a commodity at this point. When you're looking at big cost centers like the big CapEx and OpEx costs, where are the big costs here? Like, are the electrolyzers themselves a big cost center or is it all down to kind of the cost of the power? Is that the biggest variable?Anthony WangIt's about 50/50. I mean, for us, we have kind of a renewables plant or part and then a process part, and it's about 50/50 between the two, the electrolyzer representing the main component of the process part. We've been doing a lot of, say, electrolyzer shopping in the last couple of months and you're probably wondering how that's going.David RobertsI am quite curious about what you're seeing out there in electrolyzer land.Anthony WangYeah, the reality is no one has actually built and constructed a 200 megawatt electrolyzer to date. It's not because electrolyzers are a risky technology, we've had them for hundreds of years. But at the scale that we're talking, we haven't really got that much experience. Even the biggest technology OEMs don't. And so as much as there is a big boom in the hydrogen space, I think for me personally, it's been quite a sobering experience being in the market, actually trying to procure these pieces of equipment because —David RobertsIs the hype getting a little out ahead of where the market is?Anthony WangObviously there's the hype and then there's the reality of getting things done on the ground. It's not that I'm disillusioned by what I've seen. It's more that you just realize that there are so many practical implementation considerations that you haven't thought of, right. Well, one is on pricing, obviously, because there's very little, very few of these projects have happened. There's not that much price liquidity and so no one really knows how much this stuff costs. Not even the EPCs who are meant to build this really know. So everyone's trying to figure it out. People are also aware that there are subsidies, so everyone's trying to make sure that they don't leave a penny on the table in terms of how they price their kit.And obviously you can imagine if everyone does that, then your economics go out the window. So that's on pricing and all the electrolyzer OEMs know the game and they're kind of looking to find a way to play into that. And then in terms of the actual technical and implementation challenges, ultimately this is going to be a process plant, right. This project is going to look a bit like a refinery. That means that every single valve needs to be lined up, every single power cable needs to be at the right voltage. And especially in our case, because we're off grid, for example, when you try to run your entire renewables to electrolyzer without — in the engineering terms, I think they call it like clock — you don't have a base frequency that you can follow, you end up having to create your own kind of grid stability. And that brings it with a bunch of challenges around frequency, voltages, harmonics.David RobertsRight? You're not getting any of those grid services. You kind of have to do all that yourselves.Anthony WangYeah, so turbines, usually they're connected to the grid, so they just follow the frequency of the grid. Whereas when you don't have that, you need to create it yourself and then your electrolyzer is there, kind of disturbing it a bit because it's not entirely efficient. And so there's lots of day-to-day engineering challenges that we need to overcome that, I at least, had not expected when we started this.David RobertsYeah, it does kind of seem like the mother of all optimization challenges you've taken on here. There's like so many variables moving at once. So you feed this cheap power into electrolyzers and just one last question about electrolyzers. Just from looking around in the market and your general sense of things, are you anticipating or do you feel like the sort of market is anticipating, substantial reduction in those costs or is that just kind of a fixed piece in the middle of this puzzle?Anthony WangYeah, good question. Obviously, when I speak with our suppliers, I always ask them because I hope that the prices that they give me today are not reflective of where they hope things will end up in the future. So today, they're obviously not pricing in that cost reduction. That said, all of them are very optimistic about the price reduction and usually, especially on the PEM side. I mean, when you talk to the PEM electrolyzer suppliers, they tell you that the reason they chose that technology is because it just has a lot more cost reduction potential.And you've got lots of levers there, right? You've got the raw materials themselves switching from the very precious ones to the slightly more common ones and that'll obviously reduce the cost. Then the second one is purely in terms of the design. So lots of the OEMs are trying to figure out ways to modularize not just the stacks and the core kind of arrays of the electrolyzer so the area where the hydrogen gets produced, but also the balance of system and the balance around that stack. So the purifiers, the transformers, rectifiers.David RobertsRight. All that stuff is still pretty bespoke at this point, right, for big electrolyzers?Anthony WangYeah, it is. And this is where the traditional OEM kind of equipment manufacturing model slightly overlaps with what traditionally an engineering company would have done. So the big EPCs would design stuff and engineer stuff to order rather than having prefabricated productized modules. But what you're seeing is that the intent is for electrolyzers to really follow what wind and solar have done, where in the future, if you need an electrolyzer project, you're not having to engineer for a year to find the right size of purifying tank. But you can just call up an OEM and they'll deliver you something that essentially comes out of a box.I mean, I'm simplifying, but that's the idea.David RobertsYeah, something containerized.Anthony WangYeah, exactly.David RobertsAnd if those cost drops manifest, will that be a substantial piece of making this kind of model viable in more places? In other words, is that a big lever or how big is that electrolyzer cost relative to say, the renewables on one side and the methanol on the other?Anthony WangYeah, we have our projections for this obviously. So we have our power part and our electrolyzer part. Obviously, we're more optimistic about the electrolyzer part coming down further. We don't expect renewable. I mean, there may be perovskite solar panels, you may have some thought on that, David, but on the renewable side, things will happen as they do. On the electrolyzer side, obviously, this is a huge part because when you think about that equation of cost of power, cost of the electrolyzer and then the number of hours as you reduce the fixed cost of your electrolyzer, the incremental impact of your cheap power just becomes even greater.So all the benefits that you get from going to the cheapest places in the world so your windy deserts just get magnified and you will get to a point where whereas today you use your power, let's say it's 50 kilowatt hours per kilogram of power that you need to make hydrogen. That efficiency conversion factor, when you reduce the cost of the electrolyzer, it'll make a huge difference to the economics for sure. We're very bullish on that and we're hoping that those costs come down but we're not relying on it. And our first project probably won't be benefiting from a lot of those cost reductions.David RobertsRight. And of course, there's also just scale and learning.Anthony WangYeah, of course.David RobertsJust the natural cost declines that come with more people buying more electrolyzers which I assume is going to be happening soon. So then you synthesize this green hydrogen and then the question is why not just sell the hydrogen? Why not sell the green hydrogen? It's pretty precious these days, a lot of people want it. Why not pipe or truck or however one carries hydrogen to customers? Why the third step?Anthony WangWhen we started this business we probably thought of two main challenges. One was excessive production costs and then the second was kind of the midstream transport challenges. And on the production costs, we've kind of covered that but to the midstream challenges. So maybe just as a bit of context. I spent my entire career in hydrogen and green molecules, working with power utilities, oil and gas companies. And at one point I actually led a project called the European Hydrogen Backbone, which was an initiative by the gas TSOs, the pipeline network operators in Europe to try to repurpose their pipelines from natural gas to hydrogen.I'm a mechanical engineer by training. I spent a lot of time doing hydraulic modeling of pipelines and compressors at the time, and I learned quite quickly that hydrogen is a relatively leaky gas. It's not the easiest to move around, and it's also the reason that we don't really transport or store it at large scale today. It's not that you can't do it. You can. But the economics and the practical details of implementing it become quite challenging.David RobertsYeah, just to pause there since you were just talking about having studied it, because I'm really interested in this question. When gas infrastructure companies talk about this, I've seen two things. One, I've seen mixing some hydrogen in, right, just sort of lower the carbon intensity. And then there's discussion of just turning the infrastructure over to hydrogen entirely. And my question is, just from an engineering standpoint, are those pipes ready for hydrogen? It seems like hydrogen is a lot harder to hold onto than natural gas. And there's thousands of miles of these pipes. Are they just going to work or is this going to be a thing where you have to go through the whole system and sort of fortify it?Anthony WangYeah, it's a good question. And I mean, just on blending and repurposing. So in Europe, the discussion is mainly on repurposing. So fully converting, not blending hydrogen into gas pipelines. I think it's a bit depending on the political environment where you are in Europe, blending is not really seen as a viable solution. The energy impact is tiny because hydrogen is less dense than natural gas. So when you blend like 10%, I mean, there's only a fraction of that on an energy basis.David RobertsYes, I mean, I think it's just a political fig leaf here. I'm sure it'll go away once the practical challenges become more clear here too, I think. But at least right now, natural gas companies are kind of waving it around as one of their "Please don't kill us" ideas.Anthony WangYeah, that's on blending. Just to clarify on the technical viability of repurposing, I mean, in Europe, they've actually done a lot of work on this and a lot of good work. I mean, the German TSOs have just had DNV GL, a very reputable engineering company, look at this and they essentially conclude that just on this, you do need to actually go through each single pipe and look at whether it's ready or not. So it does take a lot of work to do. But in Europe, the pipelines are in a very good state and you can repurpose them, but it will come at a cost. Mainly, at least currently, with the way that the codes are set up, is that you need to derate them. Which means that whatever pressure you are operating the natural gas pipeline at, if you want to operate it for purely hydrogen under the current safety standards, you have to lower the pressure. And when you look at the hydraulics of hydrogen, you really don't want to be piping it at low pressure because it just becomes very expensive. And so on the per kilometer or mile transported per megawatt hour, it becomes quite expensive.David RobertsIt's just more manageable at high pressure.Anthony WangWell, you want to store it at high p... So because hydrogen is a lot less energy dense than natural gas, to get the same energy content throughput, you need to compress it more and transport it at much higher velocities. So when you don't do that, you end up, kind of like, transporting hydrogen, but very slowly. It's a bit like a congested motorway. And so in terms of value for money, obviously you get a lot less throughput and capacity of transport. That's the main reason.David RobertsDo you think, I mean, in Europe, I suppose, is probably the most promising place of anywhere, that this is actually going to happen on a timeline that is meaningful? Or alternatively, are a lot of green hydrogen projects going to end up doing what you're doing, which is basically being off the hydrogen grid, converting hydrogen before you ship it out? I'm sure there'll be some of both. But how bullish are you on hydrogen infrastructure generally? Pipeline infrastructure?Anthony WangWell, we've not bet our company on it. That said, look, I mean, I wish them the best, right? Obviously it's a hugely ambitious project and I think that they're making progress. But ultimately I wouldn't want to for our projects and the ones that we're trying to raise financing for. The argument that you've got a business case because 5-10 years down the line there may be a hydrogen pipeline that comes in and it's the same for CO2 infrastructure, really. I mean, it's just not going to fly when it comes to raising debt financing for a project of this size.David RobertsAnd there's no practical way for you to build a pipeline even if you wanted to. So are there even alternative ways of transporting green hydrogen that are practical at all? Or is it pipelines or nothing?Anthony WangAt the scale that we're talking now — hydrogen is already transported in trucks and you can put it in tanks and stuff and that's usually compressed, you could liquefy it as well, but that's even more energy lossy. You end up having to compress it. So you pay for the compressors, which are expensive, or the liquefaction, and then it's again not very dense, so you end up having to pay a lot for the transport itself — and at the scale that we're talking, 20,000 tons a year, that's not something that you would want to be trucking around. Also from a safety perspective, I'm sure that's not ideal and lots of local authorities would not be very happy with that.David RobertsYeah, that's a lot of trucks.Anthony WangYeah.David RobertsSo it's just not practical, basically, at this point to build green hydrogen out in the middle of nowhere where the renewables are good.Anthony WangRight, yeah, exactly. And that's also why I think today most of the hydrogen projects that are actually getting somewhere and having traction are the ones that are near industrial clusters and by ports and next to an existing refinery, which makes total sense. Right. Decarbonize the existing hydrogen that you have. But that's not going to cut it when you're trying to integrate renewables from the best regions into where the demand sinks are.David RobertsRight. Yeah. Are there even exclusively hydrogen pipelines now? Is there much of that infrastructure now?Anthony WangSo it does exist. So there is what's already available and there are industrial clusters and there are pure hydrogen pipelines. They're mainly operated by the industrial gas company. So the Air Liquides, the Air Products of the world, but these tend to be quite small. So these are 10-20 inch pipelines that aren't meant to transport across long distances. These are mainly pipes to bring it from one side of the industrial site to the other or as a backup. I mean, they work, they're totally safe and people have experience building them. But at the scale that the natural gas pipeline companies are thinking, which is like 48-inch huge cross country type pipelines, we don't have anything at scale or that's commercially kind of running.But the TSOs, especially in Europe, are running pilots and trials. And I think there's one connecting Germany and France. There's a bunch of projects in the Netherlands. I know that the Dutch TSO is very active on this, so there's definitely stuff coming. But as to when and where exactly it'll be up and running, I don't know.David RobertsRight. And I'm thinking of the US. We have this huge hydrogen hub program. I'm sure you're familiar with it. It's a similar idea, building these huge industrial clusters. And I guess we're just going to have to build pipelines for all those in the US. Because there's not sort of curious about site selection for those too.Anthony WangYeah. As a principle, it's very difficult as an individual project developer to make a pipeline like this work. I mean, it really requires everyone to come together and the stars to align. And then you often need — this is why these companies are typically regulated, usually is, because that's the only way to finance it. And so I know we've looked at, for example, using pipeline transport, and as an individual company, there's no business case for building a pipe just for your own uses. It would have to be because you pool into it with other producers and off takers.David RobertsA little coordinated industrial policy to build that infrastructure. So you make the green hydrogen and then you combine the green hydrogen with CO2, basically to make methanol. So my first question about that is, where do you get the CO2? Because you've dodged the importing and exporting electricity problem, you've dodged the importing and exporting green hydrogen problem, but now you've got an importing CO2 problem. I guess my question is, how big of a problem is that? How available is CO2? How easy is it to get it where you need it?Anthony WangYeah, when we looked at this, it was like we kind of put the main energy carriers and commodities, we stack rank them electricity, hydrogen, CO2, methanol. Which one would you rather transport and which one would you rather store?David RobertsRight.Anthony WangAnd kind of where you end up is you really don't want to transport electricity if you've not got an existing cable network, you don't really want to transport hydrogen. CO2 is a bit easier. I mean, it's still not ideal. It's an industrial gas. You need to liquefy it. But it's better than hydrogen. Much better. But the best thing to transport in store is methanol because it's liquid at room temperature. So what we try to do is you try to bring everything into our sites and then make methanol there, and then ultimately transport the methanol out to a port and on the CO2.So we have two options, really. One is to work with industrial point sources and we try to work with companies who have either unavoidable process emissions so cement companies, or biogenic sources of industrial CO2. So pulp and paper.David RobertsSo this is carbon capture you're talking about CCS.Anthony WangYeah. So this is carbon captured.David RobertsIs there enough of that to supply you?Anthony WangSo, obviously, we've got quite a big carbon CO2 supply problem. So from an availability in the flu gases, for sure, obviously, I think you're asking about the carbon capture itself.David RobertsRight. Is enough being captured to supply a substantial market?Anthony WangInterestingly for us, when we started this, we looked at the market and said, okay, very few are actually capturing the carbon. But when we spoke to a lot of these potential CO2 capture companies and suppliers, to our surprise, lots of them already had been doing lots of engineering study and were very keen to implement this technology. The problem for them is they had nothing to do with the CO2. Interestingly, for a cement company, especially the ones that we spoke to in Europe, they're under such immense pressure with the EUTS, the European Carbon Cap and Trade system, where they're essentially, once that's in full swing, their product price doubles because it's one ton of CO2 per ton of cement.Cement sells for 50 euro per ton. So you can do the math. Right. So for them, they had to do something. So they've been studying this and looking to pull the trigger on some investment decisions.David RobertsI thought there were industrial uses of CO2. I thought there was a market there.Anthony WangYeah, CO2 is already used today for greenhouses, but at a very small scale. And usually, the CO2 is not coming from big industrial point sources, although there are some. So there's some ammonia plants that already capture CO2. So that's one is on the industrial point source. The other source that we think is a very good option and where we have lots of discussions, is with biomass, often anaerobic digestion. So if you look at RNG, what you have actually is a very pure source of CO2, because in the process of making RNG, what you do is you essentially purify RNG from biogas.And biogas is about 50% RNG and 50% CO2. So in the process of purifying RNG, you actually inadvertently purify CO2. But because there is no offtake for it, the CO2 is currently vented. People don't make a big deal out of it because it's biogenic CO2, right, because it comes from dairy manure or agricultural residue. But it's still right. It's CO2 that's vented into the atmosphere, which we could at that point, you're not really talking about carbon capture, right? It's just connecting it to a pipe because it's already pure. You don't need to scrub it or clean it.And that CO2 is a very good source for us because, a), it's very, very pure, so it's cheap, and b), it's obviously biogenic.David RobertsWell, if they were going to throw it away, if you hadn't come along, I would imagine they're willing to sell it to you quite cheaply.Anthony WangYeah, exactly.David RobertsSo in terms of just sort of absolute numbers, you're not worried about supply of CO2, you think you have enough CO2 to go on for a while or what's your outlook on that?Anthony WangYeah, so, I mean, just to give you an example, right, we have an agreement with Cemex, a major cement company, and their cement plant produces 450,000 tons of CO2. And one of our projects takes 150,000. So three of our projects are needed to decarbonize one cement plant, just to give you a sense of the scale. And then these guys have tens of these around the world, and that's just one company. So in terms of scale, we're not too worried about the CO2.David RobertsRight. So in terms of its availability in general, clearly there's a lot of it. But in terms of the mechanics of getting it to you, that's not a bottleneck at all. How does it come to you, by the way? Does it come to you in a truck?Anthony WangSo we use a combination of rail and trucks. So both CO2 and methanol, we rail and truck. Typically, what we find is that actually the CO2 producers or industrial facilities are again close to ports where traditional industries are. And so what we end up doing is we use the same infrastructure, so the same rails and same train rail, cars and trucks to import the CO2 and then export the methanol. And it's a similar principle where we use tankers. So you liquefy the CO2, put it on a train and then the methanol is already liquid and you export it out.And so that infrastructure all exists and it's just a matter of connecting to the right infrastructure.David RobertsAnd to be clear, you intend to only use captured CO2, not like natural CO2 from underground, because your sort of process is only carbon neutral if you're using the carbon that's been captured somewhere else.Anthony WangYeah, exactly. And I mean, there's lots of debate and discussion about what exactly is good CO2. Maybe that's a rabbit hole that we don't have time to dive into.David RobertsHave they made up a bunch of colors for that yet?Anthony WangWouldn't be surprised if they're getting to that stage. So in Europe they call it biogenic CO2, which ultimately means that it has to be CO2 with a short cycle. So it can't be CO2 that's from the ground basically. Right, but obviously, even with things like processed CO2, you can argue how green is that compared to if it was from agricultural residue? But then you can argue that some of the biomass that's being used today for power and heat production from wood in the Amazon forest isn't great either, so it's a pretty big topic.David RobertsOr direct air capture. Is direct air capture even enough of a thing for you to have thought about it? Or is that still just a gleam in somebody's eye, more or less market wise?Anthony WangYeah, it's not competitive at the moment, so obviously for us it'll be an option in the future. Today there is not nearly enough scale and it's not competitive enough for us to consider it. But I mean, I'm definitely keeping a close eye on it, but for now, we stick to the industrial point sources. Obviously, it would take out a lot of the transport considerations because we could power the direct air capture with our own renewables. So we could just put everything in the same location.David RobertsYeah, you could make your own CO2.Anthony WangExactly.David RobertsThat would add another piece to the optimization puzzle. You're going to have to bring AI in to deal with all this. So I think my knowledge of e-fuels is pretty sketchy, as I think most people's are. My understanding is that if you have hydrogen and CO2, there's a number of different fuels you can make. So of all the sort of possible fuel choices, why methanol? Is it easier, process-wise, to make it, or is it something about the market for it is better, or what are the sort of considerations?Anthony WangYeah, for sure. Obviously we had to pick one. We looked at the hydrogen market and if you look at where most experts think hydrogen will be used today and likely in the future, it's mainly as a feedstock. So it's for ammonia, methanol, steel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). And so those are the main kind of derivatives that we considered. Obviously we looked at the technical side, so we've talked a bit about the transport options and methanol kind of comes out on top. There ammonia, better than hydrogen, but still quite a toxic gas as well. We had to pick one to start with for our first project.But I would like to add we're called ETFuels, not ET Green Methanol for a reason, not only because the latter is not very catchy, but also because we see our off-grid production model as a way to scale into a multi-fuel future. But for our first one, we chose methanol. Again, partially for technical reasons, but also part of it was just timing, because this was around the time that the big Danish shipping company called Mersk made a huge announcement that they essentially committed to methanol as their decarbonization fuel of choice. And they had put in an order for eight methanol-fueled vessels at the time.This was a couple of years ago. Obviously, that number of methanol ship orders has grown exponentially since then. Last I checked, in the first half of 2023, methanol vessel orders represented 62% of the order book, outstripping all other fuel types. And so for us, the message from the shipping sector was clear. If we're going to decarbonize and do anything in the next ten years, it has to be methanol, because the ammonia engines just aren't ready yet. So that was quite an obvious one for us. And then on top of that, methanol is already an existing market of 100 million tons a year, used as a chemical feedstock for various plastics and chemical products.So that's kind of the main reason that we went with that fuel.David RobertsSo you chose methanol because it's easy to transport at room temperature and there's a relatively guaranteed market for it, but you think the model, there's nothing about the model that's going to prevent you from moving into other kinds of e-fuels.Anthony WangYeah, exactly. I think one of the reasons the model is attractive, the off-grid model, is because so much of the cost and learnings are applicable to other fuels as well. So obviously the renewables is the same, the hydrogen production is the same, and this is the notion of hydrogen as this platform chemical. And then the final part is, depending on which fuel you go with, is 15-20% of the total CapEx. But you could have a train for ammonia, you could have one for methanol, you could even have one for e-methane, which some people are doing, which is kind of e-RNG.And so for us, it's — obviously we bet on methanol as our first. We think the market is ready there, but ultimately, ammonia might have a big future in shipping as well. And ammonia doesn't have the CO2 problem. So for us, it's a really good way to kind of keep our options open.David RobertsIs making methanol out of hydrogen substantially more or less expensive than making ammonia out of it, or methane? Or are there substantial cost differences in that last piece of the puzzle?Anthony WangSo the main difference is — they're all a bit different. So obviously, ammonia, the big benefit is you don't need CO2. So whatever you were paying for the CO2, you're now no longer paying for.David RobertsBetraying some rank ignorance here, but how on earth do you make hydrogen into ammonia?Anthony WangYou combine it with nitrogen, so you take nitrogen out of the air, so you purify nitrogen and then you run it through a reactor. It's a similar type of synthesis reactor where you basically run your gases at a certain temperature over a catalyst. So for ammonia, it's called the Haber Bosch reaction. For e-methane, it's called the Sabatier reaction. I think the methanol reaction doesn't have a name, but they all have similar principles, which is you put it into a chemical reactor, hydrogen plus some other compound.David RobertsRight, so it's not no, it's very similar.Anthony WangI mean, there are obviously some technical, detailed process differences. So ammonia in terms of reaction, temperature in terms of how well it operates under fluctuating load. So all of these processes, whereas the electrolyzer is very flexible, most of these chemical reaction kind of chemical plants are a lot less flexible because you need to maintain the temperature and the pressure. And it's much more like a refinery than an electrical kind of process. And then for methane, when you're obviously methanol, the last step is distillation, where you have to separate the methanol from the water, whereas with methane, you're separating a gas from water.So there are some kind of nuanced differences. But in terms of the big picture, I mean, your renewables is the same, your hydrogen is the same, and the last 20% you can kind of flex that if you need to.David RobertsSo in terms of carbon-neutral methanol, for which there is this sort of nascent market just emerging, these shipping companies just sort of getting into this. Are there lots of competitors? Do we know? I mean, is there a good sense yet, like, what it ought to cost? I guess it's far from commoditized at this point. But how mature is that final market? Or is this sort of like everybody's figuring this out as they go?Anthony WangProbably more the latter. I mean, there are definitely competitors. I'd say most e-fuel announcements you see are probably around ammonia because it's just slightly easier because you don't have to source CO2, which is a challenge. So for us, it's a competitive advantage, I think, that we know how to source CO2 and we know our way around that market. On your question around pricing, so of course people are figuring it out. There are a couple of pilot plants. There's a few that have just started, kind of just taken an FID. Orsted has just bought one in Sweden where they've started construction, but they aren't producing yet, so no one really knows how much it's going to cost until it's operational.Obviously, we know, today we would be producing at a price premium to fossil methanol. But that'll be the benchmark is — how many times more expensive are you compared to either fossil methanol or the fuel that you're replacing. So in our case it'll be fuel oil for shipping.David RobertsYeah. I'm guessing you're a lot more expensive than fuel oil at this point.Anthony WangYeah. So at this point we're significantly more expensive. Obviously what gives us comfort is that we're well one is the cost reduction trajectory of the technologies and the learning that we think we will gain and two is our relative cost differential against our direct competitors which we see as green methanol. Right. So we don't think we will be directly competing with fuel oil because one obviously from a regulatory perspective those get treated very differently and all the incentives that a shipping company, especially in Europe, in the US you've got the IRA in Europe there's lots of incentives for fuel switching demand side kind of quotas and ways to benefit.So you only get those if you're to decarbonize fuel. And for us, what gives us comfort is not so much the comparison to fuel oil but the comparison to other green methanol projects. And for us the off-grid nature gives us this competitive pricing advantage because of our cheaper power and that's what allows me to sleep at night.David RobertsWell, one question I have is, what counts exactly as carbon-neutral methanol? Because, as Volts listeners know, because they listen to the hydrogen tax credit episode, the question of what is the carbon intensity of your hydrogen is far from straightforward. And there's a lot of debate now about whether to require it to be off-grid or exactly how to measure the cleanliness of the electricity going into it, et cetera, et cetera. It's a very complicated debate here in the US. I'm sure you're very familiar with it over in Europe too, you are very clearly making carbon-free hydrogen because nothing's more additional than renewables that you are building yourself to attach to your electrolyzers, right.So you clearly pass the bar. But is that same debate live in Europe? Because if people can use cheaper grid renewables I don't know, maybe that actually wouldn't give them a cost advantage. I don't know. But is there debate right now over what counts as e-methanol?Anthony WangYeah, for sure and really good point on the additionality I hadn't mentioned. Thanks, David. It's a big part of why we've chosen this model as well. It's the cost, it's a scale and it's the additionality on the debate around what is green methanol. So for sure, I think in the US it's a bit of a different discussion. There's not really so much a definition of what is green methanol because you make it compete with fossil methanol through the IRA, through the tax credit. In Europe, we've just had a big legislation passed called the Delegated Act for Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin.Anyway, lots of rules kind of were described in that one is for green hydrogen, which is the one that you talked about, which I think is the similar discussion in the States around additionality temporal correlation, geographical correlation, which we comply with. And the second one is around CO2 essentially how you carbon account for the CO2 in a fuel like green methanol. And the European policymakers agreed on that. So the commissioned parliament and so what we have is up until 2040 any CO2 is okay. So that's kind of what they agreed on. And then beyond that, you would need to be either unavoidable process or you need to be biogenic.But for now, their argument is because there is so much CO2 that's kind of going into the atmosphere that we're not decarbonizing — all of those sectors, for those sectors, you can capture the CO2 and use it and it'll qualify as a "renewable fuel of non-biological origin." That's what they call it.David RobertsInteresting. So as I'm thinking about a project like yours in the US in a post-Inflation Reduction Act world, I'm sort of slightly boggled at the number of tax credits or subsidies that you could rack up with this. You could get tax credits for building the renewables, tax credits for green hydrogen which are substantial. I think there's tax credits for using the CO2. I think there's tax credits for the e-fuels. Like every piece of this is going to get money showered on it from the IRA. I'm wondering whether that makes these projects more attractive.I mean it must. And whether you've been thinking about that. And two, just on a more general basis, how you think about subsidies and whether you need them and to what extent this business model relies on them.Anthony WangYeah, we founded the company before the IRA, before all these policy and incentive mechanisms came out. And we founded it because we believe there to be a commercially viable proposition without it. So we didn't create a business that relies on or is reliant on subsidies. I don't think that would make for a very good business.David RobertsWell, there are plenty of them.Anthony WangYeah, I guess so. But I mean, obviously now for us what this means is kind of accelerated our trajectory so we can do things much faster and basically just get going. And obviously we can't not go for them because it'll make us less competitive because our competitors are. In terms of which ones exactly, I mean, we take quite an opportunistic approach. Obviously in the US we'll try to play into the tax credits the extent to which you can, I don't know, what I would call "double dip" in the sense that get benefits from the US credits and then export your fuel to Europe and then get more benefits there from avoiding the EU ETS.I don't think that's entirely clear. I mean, I'd be quite personally, as a taxpayer—if I were a US taxpayer—I'd be a bit skeptical of that. And even as a European one, I'm not sure how comfortable I feel with importing US-made fuel subsidized with US tax credits and then getting another whammy on top of that in Europe. Yeah, but I think that's all to be identified in Europe. Obviously, you've got the innovation funding there's all the onsite measures, which I think are much better. Like for example, the renewable fuel quota. That's a very clean quota for ships where they just have to switch a certain share of their fuel to be green.And then you've got various other kind of incentive schemes, carbon contract for differences, which are meant to be a support mechanism for hydrogen production. And so we'll see for us, basically what it means is that our projects are even more viable than they were a year and a half ago.David RobertsHave you done the math yet on a project with all the IRA subsidies? Because the green hydrogen tax credit is ginormous.Anthony WangYeah, obviously we've done the math just to give you maybe cut some numbers. So the $3 per kilogram hydrogen tax credit translates to about $600 per ton of methanol. And just to give you a sense of fossil methanol, so methanol made from natural gas today, I mean, I haven't checked the latest numbers, but historically it's kind of traded at around $500 per ton. So that's only for your hydrogen. And then on top of that, there is potentially a CO2 credit, which again, the extent to which we can play into that, I don't know. But the CCU tax credit is $60 per ton of CO2.And in terms of when you translate that to methanol, you would get to around $100. You multiply by 1.5. So again, it's a lot of you add it up, you get to like a $700 per ton of methanol tax credit compared to the fossil price of $500.David RobertsIs that enough to erase the delta with the fossil kind?Anthony WangYeah, we'd be in the money for sure.David RobertsI mean, it would be wild to be on the market selling carbon-free methanol that is cheaper than the carbon kind.Anthony WangSo that raises the question is what you're paying fo, right? That's where it's different in the US than in Europe. In the US, essentially that's the mentality, right? You're not trying to sell some different product, you're just trying to sell the same product cheaper. And that's why you need these support schemes to make that work. Whereas in Europe you're essentially saying, well, it's green, so it's okay that it's more expensive, but you have to do it because it's green. So it's kind of a different mentality.David RobertsYeah, there are more sticks in Europe and we're all carrots over here in the US.Anthony WangYeah, but I mean, from a developer and financiers perspective, it's not clear which one is better because obviously with the renewables, the drawback in the States was that one year you had them one year you didn't. Whereas in Europe the demand side signal meant that you had a very kind of fixed base load of demand.David RobertsRight. Yeah, that's interesting. So, the final question is just, it does seem like to some extent this business model is a reaction not to technological factors, but to socioeconomic factors. So, for instance, the limits of the grid and the slowness of getting on the grid, the slowness of interconnection, the lack of hydrogen pipelines, these are kind of bottlenecks or pressures that one can imagine easing over time. Right? One can imagine the grid getting built out more. One can imagine green hydrogen, I don't know, I actually have trouble imagining green hydrogen infrastructure being built. But who knows, it could happen.So, I wonder if those became easier and they were less of pressure points, would some of the rationale for this business model go away?Anthony WangYeah, I'm not sure if I fully agree with that statement. Just from the perspective of — yeah, okay, there are challenges with the incumbents and the pace that they're getting things done. But for us, it's also fundamentally what is a more efficient way to run the energy system. It's not just because it's not being done, we need to find some loophole that can make it work. Fundamentally, you can ask the question if you had a renewable energy system or an energy system that was driven mainly by renewables, is it more efficient to overbuild your grid, to run all that stuff intermittently —I mean, I've been part of grid planning sessions in Europe and when you've got capacity factors of solar of 15% to 20% and wind of 25% to 35%, you have to build an enormous grid to balance that. By the time that you've actually built out the grid to kind of run your power system base load, your balancing cost, sometimes they call it balance of system, basically the cost of all the extra stuff to keep it running becomes quite excessive. So, I think a study by Imperial estimated that that cost would be 50 to 60 pounds per megawatt hour of just pure balancing costs. That's in addition to the renewable costs, which by the way are a lot less cheap in Europe than they are in Chile.And so, you very quickly get to power prices which are much higher than what we are paying today. And then you can wonder, wouldn't it be more efficient if you could import some of that cheap power, put panels where it's sunny or put turbines where it's windy and import the power. And then also the other thing is, does it even make sense to try to aim for this type of base load, supply driven system or should we be running more flexible assets? And in many ways, what we've got is just a flexible asset, right? It's an electrolyzer that follows the renewables.And so, the system benefit of an asset like that is quite big. So, I don't think I fully agree with your framing of the business model. I think there's more to it than just it's a way to bypass all of the slow incumbent infrastructure. But it's definitely a good question and I don't think anyone really knows the answer until we've tried both paths.David RobertsSo, you think that the limits of electrify everything are more than just incidental or contingent? You think we're going to run into these balancing cost issues and it's going to make more sense to run more stuff on liquid e-fuels?Anthony WangNot for everything, obviously. I wouldn't ever buy a diesel car and then hope to ever be able to afford e-diesel rather than an electric car. So, obviously there are time and place for everything. For certain sectors, though, I definitely think, I mean, I'd rather fuel my ship or my airplane with an e-fuel made where renewables are cheap than to try to do that next to Heathrow Airport in London or something like that. So, I think, as always, it depends and we're very targeted in where we go. We're not looking to sell e-fuel to heat homes or do anything like that.It's very targeted to the sectors which are hard to abate and don't have other options.David RobertsThis has been super fascinating. I hope listeners agree. I hope we haven't gone too far down the technical rabbit hole and lost people. But I find this, this is where all the sort of interesting issues in the energy world are hitting the ground, right? Like you're trying to actually do these things. And as, as you said, when you start trying to actually do things, whole different challenges arise and whole different sort of questions arise about optimization and stuff like that. So, super fascinating to walk through this with you. Thanks so much for coming on, Anthony.Anthony WangThanks for having me, David. It was a pleasure.David RobertsThank you for listening to the Volts podcast. It is ad-free, powered entirely by listeners like you. If you value conversations like this, please consider becoming a paid Volts subscriber at volts.wtf. Yes, that's volts.wtf so that I can continue doing this work. Thank you so much and I'll see you next time. Get full access to Volts at www.volts.wtf/subscribe

Norway and India share a long maritime history, and maritime issues are central to the bilateral dialogue between our two countries. Our guest for this episode is Cristina. Cristina Saenz de Santa Maria is responsible for DNV's maritime operations in South East Asia Pacific & India since October 2017 in her capacity as Vice President, Regional Manager. She has worked in newbuilding and operations phases as a ships surveyor and project manager in Spain, Portugal, South Korea and Norway.  In 2015 she became responsible for DNV GL's maritime and oil & gas operations in Africa in her capacity as Area Manager and Country chair for Africa until September 2017.A significant channel to start reducing carbon emissions is by using coastal shipping. Coastal shipping is widely acknowledged as a viable and effective substitute for road transportation. India can look to the unique Norwegian shipping ecosystem for inspiration. Norway is at the forefront of developing and using technology and concepts that help to reduce emissions and improve the environment. Norway becoming one of the most advanced maritime nations in the world today. Do listen to this insightful episode of The Modern India Podcast!

On this episode of EAH, we sat down with Dr. Bo Cerup-Simonsen, Chief Executive Officer of the Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. Bo holds a PHD in Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering and spent seven years as a research engineer at MIT. During his career, he has been responsible hundreds of leading-edge newbuilding, engineering, and technology projects, which have significantly contributed to safety, efficiency and competitiveness within shipping.Bo was VP, Head of Newbuilding Strategy and Portfolio at Royal Caribbean Cruises, Director of the Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre, and VP, Head of Maersk Maritime Technology.Bo also headed the Maritime Technical Consultancy of Det Norske Veritas (DNV, now DNVGL). The Center is a not-for-profit, independent research and development organization accelerating the transition towards a net-zero future for the maritime industry. With their partners across the shipping and energy industries, they drive and facilitate the development and implementation of new pathways and technology solutions and standards required for systemic and regulatory change. Bo explains the Center's work and we discuss decarbonization of shipping using hydrogen derived green fuels. Links:The Maersk McKinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping Website: https://www.zerocarbonshipping.comGreen Corridors Prefeasibility Phase Blueprint: https://www.zerocarbonshipping.com/publications/green-corridors-pre-feasibility-phase-blueprint/Maritime Decarbonization Strategy 2022:https://www.zerocarbonshipping.com/publications/maritime-decarbonization-strategy/

Today's guest is Chris Brown, Chief Commercial Officer at Jensen Hughes.  Key Takeaways Chris 's Background Cornell University  Board member of the Bucks County Children's Museum BucksKids.Org Started in Software and Information Technology Career evolved through sales, product management and marketing.  Exposed to Fire Protection Industry at Tyco.  Wanted to be an architect, was fascinated by the built environment.  Chief Commercial Officer Focus is on the growth side of the business. Sales, marketing & strategy.  Promote thought leadership, new opportunities with clients, consulting.  By growing the business, the fulfill their mission to make the world more secure safe and resilient.  Jensen Hughes Digital Group Software products to identify areas of risk and hazard. Deliver software to clients.  Emergence of smart buildings.  Leverage technology.  Generating Insights for Clients What's going on with design decisions? What implications do building materials have on code compliance?  Bring perspective to help think forward about designing facilities to make the safest decisions to survive several decades.  Jensen Hughes  Over 1500 engineers. Experts that understand building materials and the work they do in the lab Teamwork atmosphere Scientists and engineers teaching others. About Chris Specialties: General Management / P&L management, sales & marketing leadership, business strategy and transformation, business development, mergers & acquisitions, acquisition integration, product management, start-ups, turnarounds, lean / Six Sigma https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbrownprofile/ (Chris on LinkedIn) About Jensen Hughes THE GLOBAL LEADER IN ENGINEERING, CONSULTING AND TECHNOLOGY MAKING OUR WORLD SAFE, SECURE + RESILIENT Since 1939, we have dedicated ourselves to fire protection engineering, initially in the United States and now worldwide. Today, our expertise, commitment and passion extend across additional domains —including accessibility consulting, risk and hazard analysis, process  safety, forensic investigations, security risk and emergency management as well as digital innovation across many of our services. https://www.jensenhughes.com (https://www.jensenhughes.com) About STI Firestop Since 1990 Specified Technologies, Inc. (STI) is a global leader in the firestopping industry. The company manufactures a wide array of products and technologies to provide passive fire protection. Headquartered in Somerville, NJ, STI has sales offices all over the globe. STI Marine is a Division of STI that specializes in marine fire protection in the cruise line, offshore oil and gas, and general maritime industry. STI Marine's product line consists of a full range of products used for penetration seals and cable transits in fire-rated bulkheads and decks, including water-tight firestop sealants, firestop collars for plastic piping, and an innovative cable transit device. All products comply with the IMO FTP Code and are subject to various Type Approvals include MED, DNV GL, Lloyds Register, ABS, USCG, BV, RINA and more… https://www.stifirestop.com (https://www.stifirestop.com)

Key Takeaways Luke's Background Attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute  Time on the football team helped develop skills needed in the professional world.  Studied mechanical engineering System design engineer at Kidde-Fenwal, assessing explosion risk Went to Tyco and worked on the suppression side of the business Introduced to the lab and fire testing Patents  Developed and patented a mist fire protection system  Use less water than sprinkler  Joined business development role at Tyco as the first engineer brought it.  Combining education with the know-how to help people.  Conquest Firespray On the passive side of the Fire Protection Industry  Fire Rated Ventilation Systems  Flamebar Flamebar Engineering product first, duct work product second  2 levels of protection, fire outside & fire inside  Always meets code requirements for whole range of tested sizes Always going to be the most cost effective   http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukeconnery (Luke on LinkedIn) About Conquest Firespray Conquest Firespray markets Flamebar fire rated architectural and engineered solutions to contractors, engineers and architects. Conquest Firespray is affiliated with Conquest Manufacturing, a company that has been serving HVAC mechanical and sheet metal contractors since 1998. Conquest fabricates rectangular and spiral duct, and applies coatings in its large U/L certified facility. The company manufactures in two locations totaling 125,000 square feet. Conquest headquarters is located in Warren, Michigan. Our experienced staff is project oriented and brings a field perspective to project support services. We bring extensive technical experience in fire safety, general and mechanical contracting, from pre-construction conceptual and guidance planning through field construction to completion. Our project support platforms are fully integrated, offering direct data exchange from estimating through detailing, to manufacturing and delivery. Superior control processes assure timely, accurate material supply services. Our experience ranges from new automotive plants to mega malls to laboratories, hospitals and university projects. https://www.conquest-firespray.com (https://www.conquest-firespray.com) About STI Firestop Since 1990 Specified Technologies, Inc. (STI) is a global leader in the firestopping industry. The company manufactures a wide array of products and technologies to provide passive fire protection. Headquartered in Somerville, NJ, STI has sales offices all over the globe. STI Marine is a Division of STI that specializes in marine fire protection in the cruise line, offshore oil and gas, and general maritime industry. STI Marine's product line consists of a full range of products used for penetration seals and cable transits in fire-rated bulkheads and decks, including water-tight firestop sealants, firestop collars for plastic piping, and an innovative cable transit device. All products comply with the IMO FTP Code and are subject to various Type Approvals include MED, DNV GL, Lloyds Register, ABS, USCG, BV, RINA and more… https://www.stifirestop.com (https://www.stifirestop.com)

In this episode, NMHA Medical Director Dr. Zach Finn interviews North Memorial's Chair of Stroke Neurology and internationally recognized stroke neurologist Dr. Irfan Altafullah, who has helmed the North Memorial Stroke Program since 1991. Joining Him is Jackie Feyereisen, The Stroke Program Manager at North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale. Join the crew for an explanation of Strokes like you've never heard before!North Memorial is Minnesota's first DNV-GL accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center and offers a full suite of services including the incredible Stroke rehab program that offers a one-of-a-kind Intensive Aphasia program.Learn more:https://northmemorial.com/condition/stroke-program/https://northmemorial.com/condition/intensive-programs/Ready to take your EMS career NORTH? Join a team committed to unmatched care for every single clinical condition by visiting jobs.northmemorial.comIntro Provided by Mn Native and Voice Actor Brady LaRock

Suncast is a decidedly better show because of today's guest. I mean that in all sincerity. In 2018, sitting with Tara Doyle over a beer at SF's Thirsty Bear brewery, I was challenged to diversify the then very-white-very-male interview guest roster of the fledgling show (still under 100 episodes!!). That day I pledged to get SunCast to at least a 30% representation of female guests (the % of female to male team members in the industry at the time). And, to kick off Women's History Month in 2019, we did a 2-part interview with Tara (which I highly encourage you to listen to in its entirety) which has begun a tradition on SunCast of dedicating the podcast roster to an all-female lineup every March these last 4 yrs.  In honor of that initial kick in the pants by Tara (and bc her episode was, in fact, amazing), I'm delighted to bring you this abridged version of that episode. For those unfamiliar, Tara Doyle is the Chief Commercial Officer at PV Evolution Labs (now officially “PVEL”) and has worked nearly every support role on her way to the C-suite during her more than 15 years of experience in the solar industry.  In this episode we discussed:  The integral role of support/field staff in the success of an organization  The evolution of PVEL from a small start up to their impressive 10x growth and acquisition by DNV-GL(and key lessons, considerations, and business plays along the way) Her life as a busy executive while still prioritizing her “#1 customers” (i.e., her children, aka the next generation of solar enthusiasts.)  All this and more, in under 30 minutes. Best trade you'll find! Tune in now.  If you want to connect to today's guest, check out the https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/ (show notes) over on the blog. SunCast is presented by https://www.mysuncast.com/sungrow (Sungrow), the world's most bankable inverter brand. You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you, here: https://www.mysuncast.com/sponsors (www.mysuncast.com/sponsors) Remember you can always find the resources and learn more about today's guest, recommendations, book links, and more than 435 other founder stories and startup advice athttps://www.mysuncast.com/ ( www.mysuncast.com). You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on https://www.twitter.com/nicomeo (Twitter), https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus/ (LinkedIn) or email.

Suncast is a decidedly better show because of today's guest. I mean that in all sincerity. In 2018, sitting with Tara Doyle over a beer at SF's Thirsty Bear brewery, I was challenged to diversify the then very-white-very-male interview guest roster of the fledgling show (still under 100 episodes!!). That day I pledged to get SunCast to at least a 30% representation of female guests (the % of female to male team members in the industry at the time). And, to kick off Women's History Month in 2019, we did a 2-part interview with Tara (which I highly encourage you to listen to in its entirety) which has begun a tradition on SunCast of dedicating the podcast roster to an all-female lineup every March these last 4 yrs.  In honor of that initial kick in the pants by Tara (and bc her episode was, in fact, amazing), I'm delighted to bring you this abridged version of that episode. For those unfamiliar, Tara Doyle is the Chief Commercial Officer at PV Evolution Labs (now officially “PVEL”) and has worked nearly every support role on her way to the C-suite during her more than 15 years of experience in the solar industry.  In this episode we discussed:  The integral role of support/field staff in the success of an organization  The evolution of PVEL from a small start up to their impressive 10x growth and acquisition by DNV-GL(and key lessons, considerations, and business plays along the way) Her life as a busy executive while still prioritizing her “#1 customers” (i.e., her children, aka the next generation of solar enthusiasts.)  All this and more, in under 30 minutes. Best trade you'll find! Tune in now.  If you want to connect to today's guest, check out the https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/ (show notes) over on the blog. SunCast is presented by https://www.mysuncast.com/sungrow (Sungrow), the world's most bankable inverter brand. You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you, here: https://www.mysuncast.com/sponsors (www.mysuncast.com/sponsors) Remember you can always find the resources and learn more about today's guest, recommendations, book links, and more than 435 other founder stories and startup advice athttps://www.mysuncast.com/ ( www.mysuncast.com). You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on https://www.twitter.com/nicomeo (Twitter), https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus/ (LinkedIn) or email.

Today's guest is STI's Director of Strategic Accounts, Eric Lacroix Key Takeaways Eric's Background Born in Massachusetts, grew up in the Carolina's, went to college at Umass Dartmouth and then moved back south to work for STI in the Carolinas.  Studied History at Umass Dartmouth, interested in going into Education Worked at a construction supply company while in College.  Background is in plumbing, but crossed over into FireStop and Fire Protection.  Path to STI Worked closely with STI as a distributer. Met VP of Sales, and eventually met others within the company.  Hired as a territory manager for the Carolinas Built relationships with contractors etc, became a regional manager.  Southeastern regional manager Curtain Wall became an area of expertise.  Testing for Perimeter Fire Containment Systems  Identify opportunities and build relationships with partners.  Engineers overview the scope of the test specimen. Goals are to test real world designs. Complicated process that could take 9-12 months.  Testing at UL and Intertek. Run tests in different labs. All are subjected to requirements.  The STI Advantage  Works closely with partners of all levels from all over the world Developed many of industry firsts over the years  Always working on something new and innovative.  Industry best All Weather Spray. Developed new Water Based Spray. New Hybrid Window Wall system.  Book of Solutions Provides a roadmap to the latest and greatest designs.  Broken down by Wall type, Insolation type etc.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-lacroix-9619b043 (Eric on LinkedIn) About STI Firestop Since 1990 Specified Technologies, Inc. (STI) is a global leader in the firestopping industry. The company manufactures a wide array of products and technologies to provide passive fire protection. Headquartered in Somerville, NJ, STI has sales offices all over the globe. STI Marine is a Division of STI that specializes in marine fire protection in the cruise line, offshore oil and gas, and general maritime industry. STI Marine's product line consists of a full range of products used for penetration seals and cable transits in fire-rated bulkheads and decks, including water-tight firestop sealants, firestop collars for plastic piping, and an innovative cable transit device. All products comply with the IMO FTP Code and are subject to various Type Approvals include MED, DNV GL, Lloyds Register, ABS, USCG, BV, RINA and more… https://www.stifirestop.com (https://www.stifirestop.com)

Key Takeaways Ruben's Background Born and raised in Houston, Texas. Gained “Street Smarts” during his upbringing.  Stumbled into Life Safety after getting a job with Johnson Control in the Fire Alarm industry.  Learned code and developed his own Fire Alarm business.  Came in as a maintenance technician at Texas Children's Hospital.  Developed a passion for Life Safety after expanded his knowledge base.  Director of Facilities Management at Baylor St. Lukes Medical Center Manage day to day operations, capital projects, fire alarm testing, systems upgrades, etc.  Barrier Management Programs Above Ceiling Permit Program  Required to list UL System  Host trainings with contractors Life Safety Podcast 3rd season coming soon Great marketing tool Sharing education by bringing in other industry professionals Staying up to date Went after all certifications pertaining to his field  Currently working on formal education  Constantly looking at the newest codes and standards  Currently on the 2012 edition of the Life Safety Code https://www.linkedin.com/in/thelifesafetyguy?trk=public_post_follow-view-profile (Ruben on LinkedIn) About STI Firestop Since 1990 Specified Technologies, Inc. (STI) is a global leader in the firestopping industry. The company manufactures a wide array of products and technologies to provide passive fire protection. Headquartered in Somerville, NJ, STI has sales offices all over the globe. STI Marine is a Division of STI that specializes in marine fire protection in the cruise line, offshore oil and gas, and general maritime industry. STI Marine's product line consists of a full range of products used for penetration seals and cable transits in fire-rated bulkheads and decks, including water-tight firestop sealants, firestop collars for plastic piping, and an innovative cable transit device. All products comply with the IMO FTP Code and are subject to various Type Approvals include MED, DNV GL, Lloyds Register, ABS, USCG, BV, RINA and more… https://www.stifirestop.com (https://www.stifirestop.com)

The Burn: Beyond Firestop Hosted by John Zalepka Intro Welcome to The Burn, Beyond Fire Stop. Our show is dedicated to life safety and code compliance in the built environment, which puts me on a mission to find the most interesting people in this space to get their unique perspective. Our hope is that our listening audience walks away with an understanding of how our guests and their businesses and organizations contribute to the promotion of life safety of whatever is being built. Our show is brought to you by Specified Technologies, Inc. Also known as STI Fire Stop. And since 1990 STI has been a leading global provider of innovative fire protective solutions that help stop the spread of fire, smoke and hot gases. My guest today is Mark St. Onge, Fire Protection Specialist and Field Engineer at UL (Underwriters Laboratories), where much of the industry's fire testing is done.  Key Takeaways Mark's Background Air Force Veteran, served 15 years.  Worked in volunteer fire department, and as an EMT Got into 3rd party inspections Special Inspections Has seen a lot in the field, loves the opportunity to help others from past experiences  Brought into UL with an opportunity to grow a new program  Pre Construction meetings of the utmost importance.  Time at UL Reports to Program Manager for Fire Protection and Fire Barrier Management Program and Lightning Protection System Program Acts as a 3rd party special inspector Outreach. Speaks at events. ICC, SCIA, etc.  Helps Qualified Contractor Program  Fire door inspections Master audit certificate of compliance  Interact with engineering staff and regulatory staff 3rd Party Testing A lot of training and experience goes into qualification for a 3rd party inspector  Once you are qualified, you are out on your own, you hope you have others that you can reach out to for questions. That's the bonus of having people at UL that are experienced.  What's new at UL? UL's Firestop numbering system  About Mark Fire Protection Specialist at UL https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-st-onge-32166618a (Mark on LinkedIn) About Underwriters Laboratories As the global safety science leader, we provide the expertise, insights and services necessary to achieve core business objectives. Our testing, inspection and certification, advisory and risk management services, decision-making tools, training and business intelligence offerings help our customers, based in more than 100 countries, solve their critical business challenges and prepare for future opportunities. https://www.ul.com (https://www.ul.com) About STI Firestop Since 1990 Specified Technologies, Inc. (STI) is a global leader in the firestopping industry. The company manufactures a wide array of products and technologies to provide passive fire protection. Headquartered in Somerville, NJ, STI has sales offices all over the globe. STI Marine is a Division of STI that specializes in marine fire protection in the cruise line, offshore oil and gas, and general maritime industry. STI Marine's product line consists of a full range of products used for penetration seals and cable transits in fire-rated bulkheads and decks, including water-tight firestop sealants, firestop collars for plastic piping, and an innovative cable transit device. All products comply with the IMO FTP Code and are subject to various Type Approvals include MED, DNV GL, Lloyds Register, ABS, USCG, BV, RINA and more… https://www.stifirestop.com (https://www.stifirestop.com)

Langfredag 2009 våknet Jon Fredrik Baksaas opp til nyheten om opptøyer i Thailand, streik i Bangladesh og at myndighetene hadde beslaglagt aksjene i Telenors russiske datterselskap. Hvordan beholder man roen i stressende situasjoner? Hvordan “lærer” man seg å bli en offentlig person? Og hvordan skaper man trygghet i eget lederskap? Mangeårig Telenor-sjef, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, er gjest i ukens Preik. Medvirkende:Jon Fredrik Baksaas, konsernsjef i Telenor fra 2002-2015, nå bl.a. styremedlem i svenske Handelsbanken og Ericsson, og styreleder i Statnett og DNV GL.Jan Erik Kjerpeseth, konsernsjef Sparebanken Vest«Preik» finner du på alle store Podcast-plattformer. Abonner og hør på Preik via Spotify, PodBean, Acast, Player FM eller Apple Podkaster. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan is CEO of SparkMeter, the leading provider of smart metering systems that enable utilities to implement pre-paid billing and real-time monitoring and control on micro-grids and central grids alike. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations Office for Project Services in Haiti, and for the World Bank. From 2014 to 2015, he was the Chair of the United Nations SE4All Practitioner Network Microgrid Working Group, and he was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 for energy list in 2012. Dan received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy in October 2014, where his research focused on energy access in developing countries. Dan was formerly employed by KEMA, Inc. (now DNV GL) as an energy analyst, where he worked on utility energy efficiency programs and renewable energy policy analysis and engineering in the US electricity sector. Dan received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 2007, where he triple-majored in Physics, Economics and Environmental Studies. https://www.sparkmeter.io/ https://nexuspmg.com/

Welcome to The Burn, Beyond Firestop. I'm your host, John Zalepka. Since this show is focused on life safety, I'm on a mission to find the most interesting people in this space to get their unique perspectives. As the training and development manager at STI, it's part of my job to help people understand how fire stop fits into life safety, but we want to get beyond that. So our hope is that our audience walks away with an understanding of how our guests and their businesses also contribute to life safety of whatever is being built.  Our show is brought to you by Specified Technologies, also known as STI Firestop. We are a global leader in the industry and developing innovative fire protective systems that help stop the spread of smoke, fire and hot gases. Our guest today is very knowledgeable about such topics. He helps the fire protection industry progress forward through process improvements, recurring revenue and jurisdictional compliance. So it's my pleasure to welcome Drew Slocum Key Takeaways Drew's Credentials  On the NFPA 915 committee for remote inspections Executive Director of the New York Fire Sprinkler Contractors Association  Six Sigma Black Belt Scratch Golfer Worked at Viking Group & Tyco Drew's Journey Industrial Engineer by trade  Sales territory manager  Business development sales Recent Projects Helped AFK Engineers come up with a sprinkler design for the tallest residential building in NYC Fire protection scheme for the new Moynihan Train Station (New Penn Station) Podcast Host Hosts The Fire Protection Podcast Discusses topics around the industry of Fire Alarm, Sprinkler Suppression & other Life Safety areas.  About Drew: Drew is the Co Founder and VP of Business Development at Inspect Point, managing the sales / business development team at a fast growing fire protection inspection software company while actively pursuing development opportunities with fire protection professionals, contractors & manufacturersImproving the fire protection industry through a software platform that reports required data and assists companies in the inspection, testing, maintenance and service realm. He is the Executive Director for the NY Fire Sprinkler Contractor Association and manages a group of contractors, suppliers and fire authorities.  Drew on https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-slocum-65aa4233/ (LinkedIn) https://www.inspectpoint.com (Inspectpoint) https://fire-protection-podcast.simplecast.com (Fire Protection Podcast) About STI Firestop Since 1990 Specified Technologies, Inc. (STI) is a global leader in the firestopping industry. The company manufactures a wide array of products and technologies to provide passive fire protection. Headquartered in Somerville, NJ, STI has sales offices all over the globe. STI Marine is a Division of STI that specializes in marine fire protection in the cruise line, offshore oil and gas, and general maritime industry. STI Marine's product line consists of a full range of products used for penetration seals and cable transits in fire-rated bulkheads and decks, including water-tight firestop sealants, firestop collars for plastic piping, and an innovative cable transit device. All products comply with the IMO FTP Code and are subject to various Type Approvals include MED, DNV GL, Lloyds Register, ABS, USCG, BV, RINA and more… https://www.stifirestop.com (https://www.stifirestop.com)

In this episode from The Maritime Podcast, Seatrade Maritime contributor, Paul Bartlett sits down in conversation with Erik Nyhus, Director of Environment, DNV GL to discuss the deferred MEPC 75 meeting of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee, which was was held virtually in late November (16-20), and produced a number of important decisions on short-term mandatory CO2 reduction measures “with far-reaching impacts,” as classification society DNV GL summarised.

Vad har ISO-certifieringar, digital transformation och hållbara energikällor gemensamt? Jo, dagens gäst har nämligen stenkoll på alla tre. Idag gästar Klas Bendrik, ansvarig för den digitala transformationen på det globala risk och kvalitetssäkringsbolaget DNV GL, podden. Han delar bland annat med sig av hur framtidens digitala samhälle kommer se ut, vilka hållbara energikällor vi kommer se mer av och hur en ISO-certifiering egentligen blir till. Trevlig lyssning! Höjdpunkter från avsnittet: [01:55] - Det här är DNV GL [05:35] - Klas berättar om ”flytande vind” [06:50] - Hur har Covid-19 påverkat DNV GL? [08:15] - Så här ser en ”vanlig dag” ut på jobbet för Klas Bendrik i rollen som CDTO på DNV GL. [11:45] - Klas berättar om sin karriärresa [14:15] - Här berättar Klas om den gången han genomförde en svensk klassiker där man ska fullfölja fyra långlopp under en period av 12 månader. [15:25] - Fem snabba favoritfrågor [17:25] - Klas berättar om sina erfarenheter inom digital transformation [22:45] - Så här tar du som organisation till dig världens digitala möjligheter [25:55] - Vilken roll har IT I organisationer idag? [31:05] - Så här kommer förnybara energikällor utvecklas framgent [35:55] - Så här jobbar DNV GL med artificiell intelligens [40:20] - Klas tankar om 5G och 6G [43:55] - Det här är Klas hetaste digitaliseringstips till företag idag. [46:35] - Klas tips till studenter och framtida yrkesverksamma [50:00] - Så här går du tillväga om du vill veta mer om Klas Bendrik och DNV GL

19 stycznia rosyjska barka „Fortuna”, układająca Nord Stream 2, została objęta sankcjami USA. Wcześniej z projektu, z obawy przed karami, wycofały się duńska firma konsultingowa Ramboll, norweskie towarzystwo klasyfikacyjne DNV GL, niemiecki koncern Bilfinger i główny ubezpieczyciel magistrali Zurich Insurance Group. Nord Stream 2 jest ukończony w 94 proc. Układanie ostatniego, ok. 150-km odcinka gazociągu, wstrzymano w grudniu 2019 r., gdy z budowy wycofała się szwajcarska firma Allseas. Szymon Kardaś z Ośrodka Studiów Wschodnich opowiada nam, jak dalej potoczą się losy rosyjsko-niemieckiej magistrali. Rozmowę prowadzi Robert Tomaszewski.

The second episode in our R&D podcast has landed! As part of the ODI’s Research and Development programme, we have been investigating the financial challenges faced by data institutions, and over the past few months we have started to create free tools to help data institutions understand the financial options available to them and how each will impact their existing business model. In this podcast, host Jo Kingston is joined by ODI team members Sonia Duarte, Ben Snaith and Joe Massey to discuss the tools and resources that are being developed to help data institutions become financially sustainable. Also taking part is Graham Faiz, Principal Consultant and Digital Innovation Lead at DNV GL, which aims to help the UK achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 using data sharing to support decarbonisation, and who has been testing our prototype decision making canvas. We are still looking for feedback and for people to test our tools, so if you are If you are part of a data institution, or are interested in creating or funding one, please get in touch with a member of the team via https://theodi.org/about-the-odi/contact-us. We would love to hear from you and help you overcome your challenges! Episode two features: Joe Massey, Ben Snaith and Sonia Duarte (researchers), Graham Faiz from DNV GL and Jo Kingston (podcast host and comms associate)

Summary of the series – Blockchain in the New norm This series was incepted with the Covid pandemic context – with lot of talk around adapting to the new norm – both on an individual level as well as on the biz level. From Lockdowns, Restricted movement & travel, zoom meetings to reviving demand, rebooting operations and supply chains, reassuring your employees and customers – lots of things have changed this year. And tech has emerged as an anchor point in this new norm. This series was a delve into how blockchain specifically is helping businesses in this new norm. I covered 2 topics under this series – first Safe back to Work and second Repurposing of supply chains. Here’s a summary of what we explored in this series.Welcome to the Blockchain Hustle where I take a look at some interesting plays of how blockchain technology is opening up new business vistas across multiple industries. TIME STAMPED SHOW NOTES:0:00   Welcome to Blockchain Hustle0:17    Introduction to this episode1:36    Part 1: Introduction to the series (https://tinyurl.com/y5vvmwq5)1:40    Part 2: Parts 2 to 8 are on Safe back to Work. In this episode I set the context of Safe back to Work - along with some criteria for the feasible solutions, including how blockchain is becoming an important cog in this. I covered 3 facets of Safe back to Work, Safe back to Business, and Being Safe. (https://tinyurl.com/y6ejoahm)3:54    Part 3: Here I take a look at some of the #SafeBacktoWork solutions out there. In this episode, I share on the Covid-19 immunity passport solution from SICPA-OpenHealth-Guardtime consortium. (https://tinyurl.com/y2ygw4h8)4:11     Part 4: In this episode I share a couple more examples on the Covid-19 immunity passport solutions. These include the IOC AOKpass from International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)-Perlin-AOKpass-International SOS and QDX Health ID from Quantum Material Corp. (https://tinyurl.com/y46of5zx)4:39    Part 5: This had share from UK’s Open University #blockchain based solution which stores your #ImmunityCertificates on #Solid #Pod. It’s about My data my control. (https://tinyurl.com/yx9nsg3p )5:00     Part 6: Part 6 is on Safe back to Business. In this episode, I shared on DNV GL and ToolChain’s blockchain solution which was used by the shipping company Viking Line. (https://tinyurl.com/y5zq3ceq)5:17     Part 7: Parts 7 and 8 are on the 3rd category – Being Safe? I share my thoughts on a key problem faced by clinicians, researchers and scientists studying the Covid related data from multi, disparate and solo sources. - the lack of integration of verified data sources that can be used with confidence, why is this a challenging task and also do a brief share on a data platform called MiPasa. (https://tinyurl.com/yywnpm7q)6:00     Part 8: Continuing on the data platforms, this is on another such called Shivom.( https://tinyurl.com/yyyvr7x5)6:09     Part 9: Parts 9 to 11 are on the second theme of this series and is on Repurposing of supply chains in the new norm. In this episode, I introduce this theme and share some thoughts on how Supply chains in the new norm are getting repurposed – prioritization is shifting from efficiency and productivity to resilience and flexibility. And organizations are leveraging blockchain to help achieve this. (https://tinyurl.com/y3fr2axv)6:40     Part 10: How do you build critical supply chain resilience? How do you de-risk your supply chain? In this episode, I look at a couple of companies Tymlez and Rapid Medical Parts - working on this using blockchain. 7:05     Part 11: A recent WEF report highlighted a couple of key principles for Agile blockchains: Ensure Data privacy for suppliers and Incentivizing suppliers to share data. Part 11 is a delve into this and the toolkit from WEF to help supply chains.7:34     Part 12: This summary and wrap-up. So, this brings us to the end of this podcast series on blockchain in the new norm. Hope you have found this helpful and also enjoyed listening to this series. Will shortly come back with a new topic. Should you have any suggestions on this, give me shout out.  Do stay tuned and till then keep safe and healthy. CheersLeave some feedback:I hope this content will be valuable to you. If you enjoyed this podcast, pl. like it, share it, download it, subscribe to it and do leave a short review. What should I talk about next? 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This week on Energy Voice Out Loud, in association with the EIC, we have a festive treat for you in the year's final episode. Mark is joined by Ryan Stevenson, head of Energy Voice, and some special guests to chat about the Energy Transition Idea Exchange (ETIDEX) in November that fired the starting pistol on the countdown to COP26.   Ryan, making his pod debut, gives Mark the skinny on how ETIDEX was forced from its original physical setting to a virtual one as Covid-enforced restrictions thwarted his plans to host the event like Jools Holland.   The chaps are then joined by Stuart Broadley, CEO of the EIC, who expertly moderates a discussion between some of the top-billed speakers from ETIDEX. Stuart, in a section one might call ‘Broadley Speaking,' gathers reflections from Graham Bennett from DNV GL, Adam Morrison from Ocean Winds and Burness Paull's Peter Ward.   Mark and Ryan then ponder ideas for the next billion-dollar energy transition business and consider running away to start it up. Will they both still be here after the Christmas break? You'll need to tune into the first episode of EVOL in January to find out! Energy Voice helps organisations understand the geopolitical, economic and financial factors that underpin market events, and give you a view on what's coming over the horizon. As a listener to this podcast, you can get a free trial of energyvoice.com, giving you two weeks of unrestricted access to the latest crucial news and insight. The trial is entirely without obligation – we don't want your credit card, and there's no auto-enrolment at the end. 

Det offentlige eierskapet i norsk kraftbransje gjør det vanskeligere å få en fornybar «supermajor», mener Ivar Slengesol og Jørgen Gudmundsson.  Hør mer om:  - De fire selskapene som nå er fornybare «supermajors», ifølge Bloomberg - Tidligere børsraketter og hvor lenge dagens tetsjikt leder an - I hvor stor grad børsrekorder gir en reell indikasjon på et selskaps verdi - Hvilke forutsetninger som trengs for at et av de store norske energiselskapene tar steget helt opp Ukens anbefalinger: Jørgen Gudmundsson: Jeg vil anbefale Transcendence Group sitt webinar om sustainable finance. Ivar Slengesol: I strømmen av gode analyser vil jeg trekke frem DNV-GL sin siste rapport om flytende havvind.  Martin Larsen Hirth: Nettstedet CarbonBrief har foretatt en grundig og jordnær analyse av hydrogen og hydrogenøkonomien.  

To conclude the tenth series of our DNV Talks Energy podcast, we look at the action that needs to be taken to accelerate the energy transition. Having spoken to many of DNV's customers throughout this thought-provoking series, here we speak with two of our colleagues. CEO of DNV Energy Systems, Ditlev Engel, and Vice President Technology & Innovation, Lucy Craig, provide their insights based on the ‘five calls to action' in DNV's 2020 Conclusions report, part of the Transition Faster Together series. We hear how DNV GL is very optimistic about technological development, but less so over the role of regulation – with the onus on industry to drive change. We also discuss carbon reduction targets, and Ditlev shares his view that the long-term ambitions of individual countries will only be met through highly specific year-on-year commitments. To find out more or read the transcription, please visit www.dnvgl.com/talksenergy

Die norwegisch-deutsche Klassifikationsgesellschaft DNV GL bewertet ihren Zugang zur deutschen Reederei-Branche als sehr positiv. Im aktuellen HANSA Podcast betont der zuständige Manager Jörg Langkabel das Bekenntnis zum Standort und spricht sich für eine starke Zusammenarbeit zwischen Wirtschaft, Politik und Finanzbranche aus.

Den nye Energy Transition Outlook-rapporten som DNV GL har utarbeidet for Norge viser at vi ligger an til å nå 23 prosents utslippsreduksjon innen 2030. Målet er 50 til 55 prosent. Der et industriselskap ville laget en masterplan som går over flere tiår, har norske regjeringer valgt å klare seg uten. I hvilke sektorer ligger vi godt an, og hvordan kan vi snu resten av sektorene?Gjester: Sverre Alvik, forskningsleder for energiomstilling i DNV GL. Nils Klippenberg, styreleder for bransjeforeningen Elektro og Energi i Norsk Industri. Vert i podkasten er Kim Gabrielli, direktør i UN Global Compact Norge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How has DNV GL been able to attract new hires that are roughly 40% racially diverse & 50% female over the past several years? In today's episode, Catherine speaks with Marion Hill, SVP of Renewables Advisory for North America at DNV GL, about the effective diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives DNV has been implementing and why; what it's been like to be a female engineer in the clean energy industry for over a decade & DNV's impressive recent work with ENGIE. Are you looking for your next role in climate tech? Join the largest growing network of cleantech professionals and be the first to know about when industry-leading cleantech companies post new job openings. From development to finance to marketing, check out our website: dylan-green.com/latest-jobs.Dylan Green | Clean Energy Recruitment AgencyUS Phone: +1 (917) 287-6826UK Phone: +44(0)7538921422Email: catherine@dylan-green.com

Sunny Lu is the Co-Founder and CEO of VeChain. Launched in 2015, VeChain connects blockchain technology to the real world by providing a comprehensive governance structure, a robust economic model, and IoT integration. VeChain is the pioneer of real-world applications using public blockchain technology, with international operations in Singapore, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. Together with their strategic partners PwC and DNV GL, VeChain has established cooperative relations with many leading enterprises in different industries, including Walmart China, BMW, BYD Auto, Haier, H&M, LVMH, D.I.G, ENN, Shanghai Gas, AWS, PICC, ASI etc. Website: www.vechain.com ; www.vechain.org Sunny has over 17 years of management experience with a solid technical background. He created and implemented large scale IT and information security projects. His most recent role prior to co-founding VeChain, was the CIO for Louis Vuitton China (part of LVMH Group). Sunny was educated at Shanghai JiaoTong University and studied Electronics and Communication Engineering. Follow Sunny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunshinelu24

Alle snakker om bærekraft. Ikke alle gjør noe med det. Bjørn Kjærand Haugland er en leder som ikke bare snakker, men også inspirerer, ansvarliggjør og gjennomfører. Etter viktige verv i bl.a. DNV GL, Universitetet i Bergen og WWF Verdens Naturfond er han nå med-grunnlegger og administrerende direktør i det næringslivsdrevne klimainitiativet Skift, som identifiserer nye forretningsmuligheter på veien mot lavutslippssamfunnet. - Hvorfor er vår norske samfunns- og arbeidslivsmodell et fortrinn internasjonalt, også når det gjelder bærekraftig omstilling av virksomheter? - Hva er klimarapportering, og hvorfor bør alle norske virksomheter av en viss størrelse gjøre det? - Har virksomheter et ansvar for å hjelpe samfunnet de er en del av utover å tjene penger? Hør næringslivets klimaleder - Bjørn Kjærand Haugland - i samtale med Ledernes Sverre Simen Hov.

Listen to the third of three special edition podcasts produced in association with DNV GL examining the tectonic shift shaping shipping’s future: decarbonisation, alternative fuels and digitalisation. Stener Stenersen, DNV GL’s Head of Technical Support Norway, and Bjorn-Johan Vartdal, Digital Director for Maritime, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to discuss the next steps in the journey to digital solutions in this special edition of the Lloyd’s List Podcast

In this episode of NBAS–talks, our experts Cristina Saenz De Santa Maria from DNVGL and Erik Strømsø from Pareto Securities Asia share a positive outlook on Decarbonization within the maritime sector. Yes, we will reach our goals, is our panels conclusions. The panel has a look at different drivers for decarbonization - like policy making, regulations, innovation/technology, and finance. If anything, policy making and the lack of ability to reach binding multinational agreements is the factor that endanger the goals for decarbonization. However, to succeed, we have to start now, is the clear message from DNVGL. Thanks to DNVGL for sponsoring this podcast and our special insight panel on Decarbonization broadcasted from Hong Bao studio 19 November. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Navigating in the #newnorm, how can #enterprises communicate #trust to the market? How do you assure your customers, partners and other stakeholders about the safety of your products and services? That you are operating a safe and secure business?I explore this in my 6th episode of Blockchain in the New norm. Welcome to the Blockchain Hustle where I take a look at some interesting plays of how blockchain technology is opening up new business vistas across multiple industries. TIME STAMPED SHOW NOTES:[00.17]     Episode introduction[01.52]     Example – Viking Line with DNV GL’s MyCare on ToolChain[04.32]    Why blockchain[05.59]    What I’ll share in the next episodeLeave some feedback:I hope this content will be valuable to you. If you enjoyed this podcast, pl. like it, share it, download it, subscribe to it and do leave a short review. What should I talk about next? Please let me know by writing to me.Connect with me:LinkedIn http://sg.linkedin.com/in/meenusarin | Twitter @meenusarin |Email meenu@vlsiconsultancy.com| Website www.vlsiconsultancy.com | Blog http://www.vlsiconsultancy.com/newblog

Christos Chryssakis, Business Development Manager at DNV GL, and Narve Mjøs, Director of DNV GL’s Green Shipping Programme, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to discuss the next steps in the journey to carbon-neutral fuels in this special edition of the Lloyd's List Podcast

In this episode we start with a look at ITF concerns about the use of ships' crews, who may be stranded onboard due to Covid restrictions, performing safety related surveys. We hear from Odd Rune Malterud, co-author of the ITF report "Beyond the Limit" about what needs to change, and to DNV GL's maritime CEO Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen about the value of being able to do remote surveys and so keep ships in service.Then.Angela is a coastal Chief Engineer in the US having gone to maritime academy in 2004. She shares some of her experiences throughout her career and why she thinks it is important that we all share responsibility for the future of our industry (Including where dads and mums can encourage daughters to get involved in maritime and shipping careers).I also talk to GIna Panayiotou, a maritime lawyer about the recourse that those who are bullied or victims of abuse can have, and where she thinks more responsibilities lie. Gina is also the founder of the It's All About Shipping Facebook stream, and passionate about sharing the benefits of maritime careers among younger people who our industry's ambassadors of the future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

DNV GL engineers and wind energy consultants Alex Byrne and Matt Malkin came on the Uptime podcast to talk about wind turbine lightning damage, force majeure, assessments, data & more. With decades of industry experience, they discuss common turbine blade damage modes, how data is helping to better assess the lightning environment of wind farm sites, why on-turbine sensors are so critical, and where the industry is headed. Check out their recent article here, which brought to light many of the contract difficulties that are presented when all lightning damage is classified as force majeure. Learn more about Weather Guard Lightning Tech’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us!  Full Transcript: EP28 - Alex Byrne and Matt Malkin from DNVGL Talk Lightning Damage, Assessment, Forecasting & Force Majeure Welcome back to the uptime podcast on today's show. We've got two amazing guests, engineers, Alex Byrne, and Matt Malkin from DNVGL. Alex and Matt are both experts on lightning's effect on wind turbines. And these two are gracious enough to join us, to share their expertise. We reached out to them actually for conversation after reading their really good article titled Lightning, wind turbines, and force majeure - a risky mix. So first let me tell you a little bit more about our guests. Alex Byrne brings over 15 years of experience in the wind industry. Her areas of expertise include understanding and assessing lightning protection systems. Using statistical methods, evaluating blade failures, including performing inspections and identifying root causes, developing, operating wind farm data analytic models and evaluating site-specific turbine loading for broad applications, such as failure analysis site suitability re powering and life extension. Ms. Byrne has also performed turbine certification for DNV GL in Denmark and holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering. And our second guest, Matt Malkin has 20 years of engineering experience and 11 years of experience in wind energy with a focus on blade technology. He has led multiple blade failure, investigations and field assessments of blade damage. Matt has analyzed SCADA and meteorological data in support of blade failure investigations, and is familiar with blade construction, failure mechanisms and failure modes. He has conducted multiple blade and turbine manufacturing and quality surveys in North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Malkin has participated in the examination and evaluation of composite turbine blades, structural design analysis methods, and manufacturing methods for technical due diligence. So Allen, what were some of your key takeaways from this really in-depth conversation with, engineers, Alex Byrne and Matt Malkin. Allen Hall: [00:02:38] first that Matt and Alex are really knowledgeable about the lightning and wind turbine interaction space. There's very few people who have as much experience in such a broad area of winter been lightning protection. so it's kinda special to talk to them because they have such a huge knowledge base and have worked with so many customers around the world on helping operators with their wind turbines and lightning protection systems and making sure that they're operating at peak efficiency. so that was fascinating. I think, Alex describing her, way of providing, as a field assessment where she has, over time been able to predict what lightning environment will be for new wind turbine sites or, even for existing, wind turbine sites, what to expect in terms of lightning protection, and then, Matt's very knowledgeable in the blade structure and, how that lightning protection system interacts with the blade structure and how defects in the blade structure or damage to the blade structure can, affect later on in the blade's lifetime.

När elen kommer från vind och sol behöver hela elsystemet byggas om för att vi inte ska riskera elbrist. Hur ska det gå till? Elsystemet måste vara i balans. Det ska hela tiden vara lika mycket produktion från kraftverken som vi gör av med i samhället. Med vattenkraft i kombination med kärnkraft går det bra att balansera, men det blir svårare när vindkraft blir allt vanligare. Vad händer när det blåser för lite eller för mycket? Nya tekniker med batterier och flexibel elanvändning kan lösa problemen, men det gäller att vi börjar anpassningen i tid. Erik Ek, driftchef på Svenska Kraftnät är en av dem som håller koll på balansen. Fredrik Hedenus forskar om miljöresursteori på Chalmers och Jacub Gubanski och Johanna Barr är konsulter i energibranschen, på DNV-GL respektive Power Circle. Reporter Tomas Lindblad Producent Peter Normark peter.normark@sverigesradio.se

A deep decarbonization of the world's energy system is still 15 years away, DNV GL said in its recently released 2020 Energy Transition Outlook, with carbon emissions set to remain high until the mid-2030s. Liv Hovem, CEO, DNV GL – Oil & Gas, discussed the conclusions of the 2020 Energy Transition Outlook with Hart Energy, explaining that energy transitions will occur at different rates in different parts of the world. “The share of renewables will increase from 26% in 2018 to 63% in 2050, which is a big shift,” Hovem said. Most of that increase will come will solar and wind power as global demand for electricity doubles from current levels. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hartenergy/support

VeChain and DNV GL present VeTrust to fight COVID19.  TRON joins forces with 1inch, expands Defi ecosystem.  DeFi's yearn.finance Is Coming to Coinbase Pro.  Tokenized real estate marketplace launches with $237M in assets.  Binance makes aggressive push on in-house DeFi with $100M fund.  Another DeFi exit scam just made off with $20M in investor funds.   Reminder, all opinions expressed are just that, opinions.  I am in no way offering financial advice nor advising you to do anything.  This is for informational and entertainment purposes only. ✅Donate Here to support the channel! ✅  BTC Address: bc1qf43hcj6q50tauakey33p796rwxvlrcsgyhp7ue ✅ LTC Address: LMQKwrNzSBS9xfp8gSwAu1yBnWkjvJYZ1q ✅ Link to articles discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJSRTtHQ1lM --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cryptotop10/support

This is the first of three special edition podcasts produced in association with DNVGL examining the tectonic shift shaping shipping's future: decarbonisation, alternative fuels and digitalization In this first edition Eirik Nyhus, DNVGL's director of environment and Tore Longva, principal consultant at DNV GL, join Lloyd’s List Chief Correspondent Richard Clayton to assess shipping’s position on the road to decarbonization. It’s time to take stock of our position on the journey, to recognise the progress we have already made, and to identify the obstacles that lie in the way ahead. Energy efficiency is all well and good, say Eirik Nyhus and Tore Longva, but we will still need energy to propel a ship – and that energy needs to come from somewhere. All the fuels under test and trial have advantages and drawbacks. It’s a balance between running for one solution and risk falling short or spending too much time on finding the perfect solution. We cannot allow the best to become the enemy of the good. How has the discussion shifted as the industry deepens its understanding of the actual environmental footprint of each of the fuels? What will be the impact of transporting these fuels, distributing them, storing them? Further, is pressure from regional and local interests helping the industry’s global insight or confusing it? And is the industry right to focus on CO2 or should it reassess the danger of black carbon and methane?

DNV GL's Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen on Class in the COVID-19 Era by The Maritime Executive Magazine

La consultora noruega DNV GL ja ha entregat a la Generalitat l’informe que ha elaborat per investigar les causes de l’explosió d’un reactor de la companyia química IQOXE, a la Canonja el passat 14 de gener i que va causar tres morts. L’estudi el va encarregar el Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement per fer una investigació […] L'entrada La Generalitat ja té l’informe independent sobre l’explosió d’IQOXE ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

La consultora noruega DNV GL ja ha entregat a la Generalitat l’informe que ha elaborat per investigar les causes de l’explosió d’un reactor de la companyia química IQOXE, a la Canonja el passat 14 de gener i que va causar tres morts. L’estudi el va encarregar el Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement per fer una investigació […] L'entrada La Generalitat ja té l’informe independent sobre l’explosió d’IQOXE ha aparegut primer a Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona.

Unsere Gäste von der DNV GL Group: Ulrike Haugen, Chief Communications Officer und Dr. Björn-Olaf Borth, Country Chair Germany. "Purpose" als Hype-Thema? Nicht für DNV GL, die weltweit führende Klassifizierungs- und Zertifizierungsgesellschaft und ein bedeutender Beratungsdienstleister für technische Sicherheit sowie Risikomanagement. Das Unternehmen, in heutiger Form entstanden 2013 aus der Fusion von Det Norske Veritas und dem Germanischen Lloyd, kann auf über 150 Jahre purpose-orientiertes Wirtschaften zurückblicken. Entsprechend facettenreich ist die Rolle, die Corporate Purpose bei DNV GL spielt: Als Anker der Unternehmensstrategie, Kern-Thema der Kommunikation, als Treiber für Innovationen und neue Geschäftsfelder und noch einiges mehr. Nicht zuletzt wurde die DNV GL von den Vereinten Nationen ausgewählt, den Fortschritt des Wirtschaftssektors hinsichtlich der Sustainable Development Goals zu analysieren!

Norge har som mål å redusere utslipp av klimagasser innen innenriks skipsfart og fiske med 50 prosent innen 2030. FNs Internasjonale Maritime Organisasjon har bestemt at utslippene innen internasjonal skipsfart skal halveres innen 2050. Dette betyr et stort globalt marked for norsk eksport av miljøteknologier og grønne transporttjenester. I denne episoden av #PolyPod forteller Narve Mjøs, Christian Fjell og Mette Vågnes Eriksen om Grønt Skipsfartprogram og blant annet hvordan Norge ligger an i den globale konkurransen om grønne markedsandeler.Denne episoden er laget i samarbeid med DNV GL, som er medlemsbedrift i Polyteknisk Forening. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In the UK, the drive toward Net Zero 2050 makes hydrogen an attractive investment, but questions remain about how markets will develop and the associated costs. Hydrogen has vast potential to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy transport, home heating and industry, but the path to decarbonisation is still not entirely clear. Jeffrey McDonald speaks with Corin Taylor, principal consultant in DNV GL and Tony Smith of Peel, to dive further into these questions and the potential for a hydrogen hub to emerge in the UK.

Today I'm speaking with Kevin, a food safety consultant with over 20 years experience. He currently acts as the senior food safety consultant for Essential Food Safety Consulting here on Long Island. Kevin and I discuss how consumers and businesses can be prepared for the changing world in which we live in. As a consumer, you should be aware of best practices whether dining out or purchasing products that were manufactured in a facility that meets regulatory guidelines. It's important to take into consideration how and where your food is prepared. The good news is many businesses already implement best practices for your safety and health. Watch the interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XMabhegHE24 One of the things that may change drastically are food tastings and events or in retail. That's something that many startup food manufacturers rely on to woo new customers and get the word out about their products. Guidelines are changing quickly. There are things we can't predict and we suggest you contact your county or state board of health or visit their websites for the most up to date guidelines as it relates to food retail and manufacturing. More about Kevin & Essential Food Safety Consulting Kevin Byrne has held key positions in food processing, food retail and food safety consulting. He currently acts as the Senior Food Safety Consultant for Essential Food Safety Consulting and is a contract food safety auditor for SAI Global Assurance, DNV GL and ResPro Food Safety. Kevin holds certifications in HACCP, Seafood HACCP, SQF, BRCGS, Crisis Management and Continuity as well as the FSMA rules on Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCQI) and Intentional Adulteration. Essential Food Safety Consulting has been the lead food safety resource for the Long Island Food Council since 2018, and provides customers with personalized, one-on-one consultations in food safety, including technical writing and regulatory compliance preparation. Essential Food Safety Consulting prepares businesses to retain or renew the certifications needed to satisfy industry standards and legal requirements, achieved through proper safety training and complete documentation. Headed by a 20-year veteran of the food manufacturing industry, Essential Food Safety Consulting pays careful attention to each company's unique circumstances and tailors planning and the course of action to maximize chances of success.

Det er ikke lenge siden Bjørn K. Haugland var bærekraftdirektør i DNV-GL. Nå leder han Norge203040, som er et klimainitiativ drevet og finansiert av medlemsbedrifter i næringslivet. De vil pushe næringslivet og samfunnet til å oppnå de klimamålene Norge har satt seg. I dag snakker vi med Haugland, som finner sin energi fra det grønne skiftet, om hvordan vi innen 2030 skal ha kuttet klimautslippene med 40 prosent.

In this podcast, I chat to Stefanie Bourne, Business Director, Renewable Energy Project Development at DNV GL.  DNV GL acts as a lender's technical advisor on a number of infrastructure projects, as well as providing a myriad of other services.   We discuss wind power, project finance, due diligence and data science.