[THREAD] Are energy companies serious about climate change?
Today, the top 50 executives @ENGIEgroup spent 2.5 hours focused purely on how to internalize our central philosophy of achieving zero carbon as a company and for our customers.
Today, the top 50 executives @ENGIEgroup spent 2.5 hours focused purely on how to internalize our central philosophy of achieving zero carbon as a company and for our customers.
@ENGIEgroup Today's session of executive workshops and brainstorming was on top of the significant actions we've taken to reduce our CO2 emissions by 50% in the last 3 yrs: selling coal plants, building renewables, investing aggressively in zero-carbon gases, deploying efficiency at scale...
@ENGIEgroup Executive time is expensive; to dedicate that many hours from top executives is a non-trivial amount of money.
Our solutions are mixed because we will need every tool in the toolbox: low-carbon power (especially wind, solar, hydro, geo), green gases, new biz models, offsets...
Our solutions are mixed because we will need every tool in the toolbox: low-carbon power (especially wind, solar, hydro, geo), green gases, new biz models, offsets...
@ENGIEgroup We were tasked w/ taking the zero-carbon mission down through the ranks of the company. The rank-and-file employees support this philosophy.
At the same time we need to keep our shareholders happy, which creates a ripe tension in the company.
At the same time we need to keep our shareholders happy, which creates a ripe tension in the company.
@ENGIEgroup My job as Chief Science and Technology Officer is to direct the corporate research division @ENGIEgroup on this low-carbon path -- ENGIE's group-wide research ecosystem has 900 people & ~$200M/yr budget. We have to develop solutions that are cost-effective and work at scale.
@ENGIEgroup But, yeah, all-in-all, my experience @ENGIEgroup has shown me that some energy companies are very serious about decarbonizing. [END]
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