Event Information

We are delighted to welcome back Professor Teddy Püttgen, world-renowned expert on the Energy Transition. Alongside Mark Kissack, Teddy will present a follow up to his 2021 webinar Energy Mutation – Let’s Get Going! in his familiar, easy to understand style.

On this webinar, Teddy and Mark will discuss:

• Recent IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports confirm the predominant impact of human activities on climate change and global warming.
• The overarching necessity thus remains, more than ever, to rapidly and profoundly decarbonize not only energy consumption but also its production.
• This requires that electricity play an increasingly important role in future energy mixes, which, in turn, requires that the production of electricity be low- and eventually zero-carbon, i.e., renewable while keeping in mind that nuclear energy is zero-carbon in operation.
• It is this context that Europe’s energy and electricity supply challenges should be considered, focusing on fossil fuel sources and particularly on natural gas.
• Using the energy consumptions and electricity productions in a few countries to illustrate the variety of situations to be faced, the difficulties to resize and realign Europe’s natural gas supplies after the Ukraine war can be presented, including the likely geopolitical shifts as well as the consequences of nuclear energy exit decisions being implemented in several countries. The rise in LNG (liquid natural gas) supply routes and the growing coordination role of the European Union are additional dimensions of a post Ukraine war energy configuration.

There will be time to ask questions and discuss these ideas during the second part of the webinar.

It is strongly recommended to view the original webinar Energy Mutation – Let’s Get Going! in advance as it provides an important introduction to the Energy Transition.

Key benefits

• Understand Europe’s current energy mix
• Understand what actions need to be taken to eliminate the dependency on Russian Oil, Gas & Coal
• Gain a basis for understanding future developments in this rapidly changing area

About the speakers

Hans B. (Teddy) Püttgen
Teddy is a Power Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) (1981 – 2006) and Fellow of IEEE. He was Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Professor and Energy Management Chair & Director Energy Center from 2006–2013, and Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Senior Director at the Energy Research Institute from 2013–2017. Other past positions he has held include:

• President and CEO of Georgia Tech Lorraine – European campus of Georgia Tech located in Metz, France;
• Director and Management Board Chair, National Electric Energy Research and Application Center (NEETRAC) – Georgia Tech;
• President IEEE Power and Energy Society;
• Member of the Swiss Federal Energy Research Commission;
• Member of the Global Agenda Council for Alternative Energies – World Economic Forum.
• His PhD is from the University of Florida and his Ingénieur Diplômé degree is from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne – both in Electrical Engineering.

Mark Kissack, CFO, Kissack Advisory
Mark helps leaders of organisations create long-term value by providing tools to better guide their decision-making. Mark’s Sustainable Transformation services rest on four pillars of experience: Sustainability; Economics; Performance Measurement; and Business Transformation. As well as his advisory services, Mark is an author, speaker, and lecturer on various aspects of long-term value creation.

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