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Rebecca Carter: Wise Words on Solar Energy
Since becoming Global Managing Director of three and a half years ago, Rebecca Carter and her team have dedicated themselves to delivering for their clients across the full solar asset management lifecycle. WiseEnergy, part of the NextEnergy Group, was founded
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Karl Fredrik-Staubo – Youth, Energy, Agility, & the Courage of Conviction: Meet the Golar Go-Getters
As the youngest CEO of a NASDAQ-listed company, Karl Fredrik Staubo brings energy and verve to his role at Norway’s Golar LNG Ltd. With energy industry experience — and the insights of chairman Tor Olav Troim to guide him —
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Rebecca Carter, WiseEnergy: Aligning the Stars to Create a Smart Solar System
When Rebecca Carter joined WiseEnergy as COO in February 2019, she was seeking to return to an international role in a socially responsible industry with enormous growth potential. She was successfully assimilated into the renewables sector and within nine months
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Oil North of 60: Africa Seeks to Cash in on Energy Crunch
Already jittery markets, largely without direction, are braced for a near-perfect storm as central banks taper their bond-buying sprees and shelling across the ‘line of separation’ in Ukraine intensifies – a possible, if not likely, presage to an all-out war
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Energy Sector Grapples with Hydra-Headed Problems of Global Supply and Demand
At the recent COP-26 climate summit in Glasgow, government officials and leaders of international organisations put the spotlight on the energy sector. This year marked the first meeting of the Energy Transition Council, formed to accelerate the shift to cleaner
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Meet the SATORP Team: Guardians of the Rolls-Royce of Refineries
Sulaiman M Ababtain Sulaiman M Ababtain, president and CEO of SATORP, oversees one of the world’s most advanced refineries, capable of processing 460,000 barrels of oil per day. He is also on the steering committee for the Amiral Project, a
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Uzbekistan on the Path to Becoming Carbon-Neutral
In the race to become carbon-neutral, it is useful to look at where the race began. In Uzbekistan, a nation rich in natural gas, it began with nearly all energy requirements — 96.75 percent in 2019 — being met by
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The Road to Decarbonisation
The transition to zero emissions will involve three simultaneous economic processes: change in the relative prices of goods and services, with prices starting to reflect the intensity of emissions of carbon; labour relocation; and asset value scrapping. The socioeconomic return
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Green Bonds: How Active Management Aims to Make the Most of a Dynamic Sector
The market for financing linked to environmentally friendly projects and companies has already reached $1trn by some measures and we expect will move swiftly past that landmark during 2021. This, alongside growing policy support in Europe, the US and China,
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Sherzod Khodjhaev, Deputy Minister for Energy, Republic of Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan Gets to Grips with Challenges of Responsible Electric Power Generation
There is something magical about electricity: it has always been present, but its power was only harnessed at the end of the 19th Century. In that relatively short time, it has become almost as necessary as oxygen to billions of
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