Hitachi Energy CTO Gerhard Salge: Grids in a 3xRenewables World

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Serious work was continuing at COP in between Siberian Jurassic Park Wooly Mammoth exhibitions and unalloyed trade show booths - including the pledge to #3xRenewables by 2030. That’s been the planned positive headline for this COP since January. And while it would be good news, is the grid ready for that? Or will too much of the wind and solar built using trillions in (mostly private) investment find itself curtailed - aka wasted - rather than replacing old fossil fuel generating plants and meeting new demand?

Gerhard Salge is Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Energy and is one of the world’s foremost experts on power grid technologies. He sat down with Richard Delevan to talk about the implications of a 3xRenewables world on the grid.

Gerhard's LinkedIn article.

Gerhard’s Catalysts:

Redefining Energy, with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid

Michael Liebreich, founder of BloombergNEF, commentator, and host of Cleaning Up with Michael Liebreich

Michael Barnard, chief strategist at TFIE, Forbes and Cleantechnica contributor and once (and future?) guest on Wicked Problems

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