For the inaugural SIEW TechTable, speakers explored emerging and nascent low carbon technologies that can accelerate the global energy transition.
Ralph Foong, Deputy Chief Executive of Energy Market Authority, opened the session by sharing about the need for collective concrete plans for Singapore to achieve its net zero goals.
Bernard Salha, CTO EDF Group & Senior EVP of R&D from EDF Group, shared more on nuclear energy as a reliable, flexible and predictable carbon-free power in conjunction with renewables.
King Lee, Director Harmony Programme of World Nuclear Association, highlighted nuclear energyβs role to attain sustainable development. He also shared how clean and affordable nuclear energy can help to reach the Paris Agreement goals.
Digitalisation, another hot button topic, was also discussed by Amanda Peterson Corio, Googleβs Global Head of Data Center Energy. She gave insights on innovative technology solutions which Google has deployed globally to advance towards running on carbon-free energy.
Hydrogen, the new frontier to accelerate decarbonisation for power and other sectors, was another important topic shared by Professor Chris Fogwill, Pro Vice Chancellor of Cranfield University, and Peter David DeVries, Chief Technology Officer of Sydrogen.
Justin Oettmeier, Director of Business Development, Asia Pacific, Low Carbon Solutions, ExxonMobil, explored the role that Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) can play in helping to reduce global CO2 emissions. This is particularly for the hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as power generation and the petrochemical, steel and cement industries.
Genevieve Ding, Head of Sustainability Policy, Asia-Pacific and Japan for Amazon Web Services (AWS), dived deeper into how cloud-enabled technologies can help decarbonisaton and sustainability transformation.
Srimonto Ghosh, General Manager, Emerging, Chevron New Energies, shared his perspectives on harnessing geothermal energy.
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