Energy Update: Week of January 16th
Energy Update - January 17, 2023
Friends,
We return today after a great day of service in honor of MLK’s 94th birthday. And the first round of the NFL playoff games were pretty exciting too. I was a bit bummed that the Ravens lost, but it was crazy to see that 98-yard TD return that was the difference in the game.
Last week, we were consumed with our gas stoves after CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka blurted out in an interview with our friend Ari Natter of Bloomberg he wanted to “take action” on them. The remainder of the week entailed revisions, walk backs and declarations that they weren’t taking anyone’s stove from Trumka, the CPSC Chair, Democrats and the White House while intense political/cultural declarations of not “taking my stove” emerged from many Republicans and others like Senate Energy Chair Joe Manchin. While many are downplaying the battle, it’s been clear for almost three years that liberal cities are passing bans and red states are trying to limit them. I weighed in a couple times last week with Global News in Canada and with our friend Julie Mason on Sirius XM’s POTUS 124. Also, two new really straight blog posts: 1) ParentData takes a fair, straight look at gas stoves/asthma and 2) A Chemist in Langley, Canadian enviro scientist Blair King does a fair, deep dive on the RMI report.
Congress is out this week, but we did get news that President Biden’s the State of the Union address will be February 7th. We also have started to see the Committee lineups with energy-related committees getting a host of new members.
This week, the Washington Auto Show opens with its Policy Day on Thursday. Our friend David Shepardson of Reuters moderates a couple of events at the Convention Center. Other events include the US Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting with several energy events including Energy Sect Granholm tomorrow, USDA’s Tom Vilsack Thursday and EPA Administrator Regan on Friday. Also on Thursday, FERC holds its first meeting of 2023 with talk of filling the open spot left by Rich Glick’s departure. Our friend Rick Kessler, who is departing the House Energy Committee, is among the potential candidates.
The World Economic Forum's annual meeting launched in Davos yesterday and runs all week. There are plenty of climate change and clean energy-related panels on the agenda. On the first day, CBS News is featuring videos on corporate leaders including Air Liquide. The video focuses on their clean energy innovation and other aspects of their hydrogen leadership on behalf of the clean energy transition, its role in supplying medical oxygen during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and its work to supply NASA with nitrogen in support of the future of space exploration.
Finally, I have started to post a bunch of upcoming events over the next few months. Make sure you get them on your calendars: SAFE just announced it is holding a summit in late March featuring senior business leaders from the world’s leading automobile, mining and transportation companies as well as White House leaders (John Podesta) to find practical solutions that will build out robust/reliable supply chains and supporting infrastructure for the mass adoption of the broader energy transition. And next Tuesday in Houston, OurEnergyPolicy is hosting a forum at the University of Houston Hilton on the road ahead for oil and gas. My colleague Jeff Holmstead moderates a panel of experts.
Thanks for all the great birthday wishes yesterday and today. Hard to believe that I made it to 55. I know I definitely can’t drive 55!!!!
FRANKLY SPOKEN
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) taking aim at the news that the CPSC is weighing plans to ban natural gas stoves, a move that he described as a "recipe for disaster."
“Asthma is a multifactorial disease. It’s a disease we’re still studying because it’s so complex. There may be a role to reduce emissions of gas, whether within the house or outside, in order to prevent some children with asthma, but it’s really hard to grasp that 13% of children are having asthma just because of this exposure to gas emission from stoves at home.”
Ran Goldman, a pediatrics professor at the University of British Columbia, in a Canadian Global News story about gas stoves and asthma.
“We have now developed the new state of the art methodology for capturing carbon from an industrial process all in one basic unit, to purify it, to liquify it, to basically deliver it in a super critical state for either reuse or for transport for sequestration. The concept of hydrogen and how it drives the energy transition is the forefront. We are driving those innovations.”
Michael Graff, Chairman & CEO of American Air Liquide in a CBS News Davos video focused on clean energy innovation
ON THE PODCAST
Columbia Podcast Focuses on Hydrogen – On this week’s Columbia Energy Exchange podcast, host Bill Loveless talks with Daryl Wilson, the executive director of the Hydrogen Council to look at the global role of hydrogen in the clean energy revolution. Wilson served as CEO of Hydrogenics, a fuel cell and electrolysis technologies provider. During his time there, he oversaw the world’s largest new electrolysis project and the world’s first hydrogen powered public train service. In 2017 the Hydrogen Council released its first report – an outlook through 2050. Bill talks to Daryl about whether that outlook has changed with the recent instability of global energy markets and the war in Ukraine. They also discuss how new policy developments could spur innovation.
Potomac Watch Podcast Discusses Gas Stoves – The second half of this week’s Potomac Watch podcast digs into the details of the dustup over gas stoves. Allysia Finley discusses the challenge with host Kyle Peterson.
FUN OPINIONS
WSJ Weighs in on Gas Stove Fight – In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, the Board writes activities and the political leaders that support them really are coming for your gas stove. They write there really is a culture war coming over gas stoves, and everything else involving fossil fuels, because climate has become for the left a matter of core cultural identity. Progressives want to impose their values on the lifestyle of everyone else, including in the kitchen. If subsidies don’t work, coercion follows. When they can’t win the political debate, they resort to brute government force.
FROG BLOG
Baker: The Great Gas Stove Rebellion? – In a column in the Wall Street Journal, Editor-At-Large Gerry Baker writes while Great Gas Stove Rebellion of 2023 probably won’t resonate with future generations of freedom-loving folk the way the Boston Tea Party does, it’s unlikely that the plucky protagonists in the struggle to save our ovens and ranges from the grasping hands of regulatory totalitarianism will one day be celebrated as the Samuel Adamses and Patrick Henrys of the kitchen appliance age. Still, the little victory secured last week over the forces of progressive technocratic authoritarianism is significant in its way—even if it may prove only provisional and someday in a bleak, electrified future, our Vikings and Kenmores are eventually prised from our cold, dead hands.
FUN FACTS
Lithium: With the news that DOE will support the Nevada Ioneer Lithium mine, our friends at Axios has a great chart adapted from IEA on the lithium mining and processing in 2021. Of course, lithium is essential to battery materials for EVs.
IN THE NEWS
Kerry, Hochstein Detail Climate Program in Atlantic Council Forum – During a speech at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum in Abu Dhabi, US climate envoy John Kerry offered new details on the Energy Transition Accelerator, which aims to launch a carbon offset market in an effort to raise more money for developing nations to speed up the energy transition. Kerry said companies would only be able to buy a carbon credit if they are shutting down or transitioning existing fossil fuel facilities, or for the deployment of renewables that would replace fossil fuel facilities.
UAE COP 28 Climate Chair Speaks Loudly – At the same meeting in his first public remarks since being tapped as president of COP28, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, who leads UAE oil giant ADNOC and is UAE’s climate envoy pushed back against complaints of his appointment by saying the world is "way off track" on meeting its climate goals. He has the support of many climate leaders including Kerry, who dismissed the idea that al-Jaber’s appointment should be automatically disqualified because he leads ADNOC.
EIA Expects Record Global Petroleum Consumption in 2024 – EIA expects global consumption of liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, to set new record highs in 2024. According to EIA’s January Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), global liquid fuel consumption will exceed 100 million barrels per day, on average, in 2023 for the first time since 2019, then average more than 102 million barrels per day in 2024. EIA expects crude oil prices to decrease through 2023 and 2024, even as petroleum consumption increases, largely because growth in crude oil production in the United States and abroad will continue to increase over the next two years. EIA forecasts that the European benchmark Brent crude oil price will average less than $80 per barrel in 2024, more than 20% lower than in 2022.
House Votes to Block SPR Sales to China – On one of its first energy actions, the House voted 331-97 to ban the sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China or Chinese-influenced subsidiaries, signaling that Democrats are willing to back Republican-led measures against China, although the legislation has an uncertain future in the Senate.
Interior Proposes 5-yr Offshore Wind Schedule – Interior announced that BOEM will publish a proposed rule to update regulations for clean energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The proposed regulations would modernize regulations, streamline overly complex and burdensome processes, clarify ambiguous provisions and enhance compliance provisions in order to decrease costs and uncertainty associated with the deployment of offshore wind facilities. The proposed reforms are estimated to save developers approximately $1 billion over a 20-year period. The Department’s offshore clean energy program has matured over the past 13 years since regulations were first promulgated. BOEM has conducted 11 auctions and manages 27 active commercial leases. Based on this experience, the Department has identified opportunities to modernize its regulations to facilitate the development of offshore wind energy resources to meet U.S. climate and renewable energy objectives.
IEA Report Highlight Clean Energy Innovation – A major new IEA report says the energy world is at the dawn of a new industrial age – the age of clean energy technology manufacturing – that is creating major new markets and millions of jobs but also raising new risks, prompting countries across the globe to devise industrial strategies to secure their place in the new global energy economy. Energy Technology Perspectives 2023, the latest instalment in one of the IEA’s flagship series, serves as the world’s first global guidebook for the clean technology industries of the future. It provides a comprehensive analysis of global manufacturing of clean energy technologies today – such as solar panels, wind turbines, EV batteries, electrolysers for hydrogen and heat pumps – and their supply chains around the world, as well as mapping out how they are likely to evolve as the clean energy transition advances in the years ahead. The analysis shows the global market for key mass-manufactured clean energy technologies will be worth around USD 650 billion a year by 2030 – more than three times today’s level – if countries worldwide fully implement their announced energy and climate pledges. The related clean energy manufacturing jobs would more than double from 6 million today to nearly 14 million by 2030 – and further rapid industrial and employment growth is expected in the following decades as transitions progress. At the same time, the current supply chains of clean energy technologies present risks in the form of high geographic concentrations of resource mining and processing as well as technology manufacturing. For technologies like solar panels, wind, EV batteries, electrolysers and heat pumps, the three largest producer countries account for at least 70% of manufacturing capacity for each technology – with China dominant in all of them. Meanwhile, a great deal of the mining for critical minerals is concentrated in a small number of countries.
ON THE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK
Forum Looks at Small LNG – The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute hosts a virtual discussion today at 12:30 p.m. looking at the regulation of small-scale LNG export facilities. Pitt’s Jeremy Weber, a former chief economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, will speak.
RFF Looks at Big Climate, Enviro Decisions – Resources for the Future (RFF) holds its annual Big Decisions event on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. exploring the biggest priorities in climate, energy, and the environment likely to see major action in the year ahead. Our panel of experts across policymaking, academia, and journalism will examine some of the biggest issues likely to see action in 2023, including infrastructure and implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; permitting reform and financing; the Farm Bill 2023; and federal regulation including the EPA tailpipe rule, power plant rule, and the future of SEC regulation. Speakers include our friend Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post, ACP’s Jason Grumet, DOE’s Kathleen Hogan, EPA’s Janet McCabe and USDA’s Homer Wilkes. RFF’s Richard Newell will also speak.
Heritage Looks at Energy Climate, Shale – The Heritage Foundation holds a forum on Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. looking at an insider view of global energy, climate and the shale revolution. Chris Wright, Liberty Energy CEO, joins Heritage to discuss the shale revolution and potential for human betterment provided by energy-intensive fuels.
Columbia Team/Report Looks at Clean Ammonia, Climate – Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy holds a forum and discussion on Wednesday at Noon looking at a November report called the ICEF Low-Carbon Ammonia Roadmap. The report explores a number of topics including low-carbon ammonia production options, infrastructure needs, potential uses for low-carbon ammonia, and policy options. Speakers will include study authors Columbia Ph.D. student Zhiyuan Fan, former DOE Scientist and Carbon Direct Chief Carbon Wrangler Julio Friedmann and industry analysts Ann-Kathrin Merz. David Sandalow, Chair of the Roadmap project will moderate.
DC PSC holds Energy Summit – On Wednesday starting at 12:45 p.m., DC’s Public Service Commission holds a Clean Energy Summit to discuss how utility regulators and industry experts can advance progress toward national and local clean energy goals at the 2023 District of Columbia Clean Energy Summit: Path to Decarbonization. There will be multiple panels and keynotes featuring federal, state, local, and industry leaders who will come together to answer questions and discuss how we can chart a path to a clean energy future. Incoming FERC Chair Willie Phillips keynotes.
E&E Reporters Look at 118th Congress Energy, Environment Agenda – On Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., E&E Daily Editor Manuel Quiñones and E&E News reporters Emma Dumain, Adam Aton, Jeremy Dillon and Nico Portundo join a webinar to look ahead to energy and environmental policy in the 118th Congress.
ACEEE Holds Residential Retrofits Summit – The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) holds a virtual summit on Thursday and Friday on retrofits for energy equity. The event features sessions for local and state government staff and community-based organizations on leveraging federal funding and multi-sector, community-centered approaches to scaling up holistic retrofits in affordable housing. Learn how thoughtful collaboration can lead to home upgrades that generate energy savings, health benefits, local jobs, and more equitable outcomes for residents.
Washington Auto Show Policy Day Features White House Advisor – The Washington Auto Show holds its annual Washington Public Policy Day on Thursday starting at 12:00 noon. The 2023 Public Policy Day will kick off with a keynote by Ali Zaidi. Our friend David Shepardson of Reuters also moderates several key panels including a fireside chat with Gabe Klein, Executive Director, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. WaPo’s Shannon Osaka also hosts a panel that features experts discussing US competitiveness in EVs along the entire supply chain and the benefits to the EV market and job growth from both the IRA, the Chips Act and the Infrastructure law.
Forum to Look at Carbon Storage in Net Zero – On Thursday at 1:00 p.m., American U’s Institute for Carbon Removal and Policy holds a webinar on forests and soils to reach net-zero. National climate plans so far suggest countries are ‘betting’ on using forests and soils to compensate for their remaining ‘difficult-to-decarbonize’ emissions to reach climate targets. A new paper reviews these plans, examining what they mean for carbon dioxide removal and net zero. This webinar will include a presentation by the authors Harry Smith and Naomi Vaughan of the University of East Anglia.
ELI Looks at Coastal Land Preservation – On Thursday at 2:00 p.m., the Environmental Law Institute holds a webinar on sustaining coastal wetlands in a time of severe storms and rising seas. The webinar will summarize the climate change risks to coastal wetlands and provide an overview of measures and practices that will sustain coastal wetlands as a changing climate drives more severe storms and rising seas.
RFF to Focus on Transportation Policy – On Friday, the University of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon University and RFF hold a one-day event to highlight interdisciplinary research on the impacts of emerging transportation technologies on economics, environment, equity, health, safety, and social welfare. The event will feature discussions with policy experts on the future of US transportation policies.
Forum to Look at Arctic Climate Adaptation – The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs holds a forum on Friday at 4:00 p.m. focused on governing climate change and environmental problems in the urban Arctic. This presentation will discuss why Arctic cities initiate climate change adaptation policymaking. It will focus on state-city and city-expert climate adaptation policymaking interactions in Murmansk (Russia) and Tromsø (Norway).
IN THE FUTURE
SUNDANCE Film Festival Set in Park City – The Sundance Film Festival, which always has a bunch of environmental and energy films, will launch on January 20-24 in Park City, Utah.
USEA Hosts NETL Energy Discussion – The US Energy Assn hold a forum on Tuesday January 24th at 1:00 p.m. focused on the cost of capturing CO2 from industrial sources. The National Energy Technology has evaluated nine representative industrial facilities (ammonia, ethanol, ethylene oxide, natural gas processing, coal-to-liquids, gas-to-liquids, refinery hydrogen, cement, and iron/steel) to estimate the levelized cost of CO2 capture. The forum will focus on its research.
Brattle to Release Research – In a forum next Tuesday at 1:00 p.m., the Brattle Group will present the results of a new analysis commissioned by the American Clean Power Association, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), the Clean Air Task Force, GridLab, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, which finds that efficient and proactively-planned transmission solutions could significantly lower the cost of reaching 2050 offshore wind goals.
Forum to Look at Road Ahead for Oil, Gas – Next Tuesday evening in Houston, OurEnergyPolicy is hosting a forum at the University of Houston Hilton on the road ahead for oil and gas. My colleague Jeff Holmstead moderates a panel with API’s Dean Foreman, Shell’s Aura Cuellar and CITI’s Michael Jamison. BP’s Starlee Sykes will keynote. There will attribute to former Shell head Jon Hofmeister.
WRI to Host Stories to Watch – The World Resources Institute holds its annual “Stories to Watch” for 2023 on Wednesday January 25th at 9:00 a.m. The ongoing effects of COVID, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation, climate impacts and more led to major upheaval in people’s lives. World leaders are prioritizing action on nature and climate and multilateral meetings led to new breakthroughs. WRI President & CEO Ani Dasgupta will share insights into our predictions for the big stories coming up in 2023, including what actions governments, businesses, institutions and people must take to get the world on the right path.
CSIS to Look at Mining – On Wednesday January 25th at 10:00 a.m., the CSIS Americas Program holds a timely and important conversation on mining, climate risks and the Western Hemisphere. This event will focus on how the US can work with partner countries in Latin America, such as Chile and Peru, to transition to clean energy technologies for mining through development institutions and policy making. Specifically, it will focus on how the mining of resources like copper and lithium, which are necessary to produce clean energy technologies, can be extracted in a sustainable manner, and one which contributes to the economic empowerment of local communities. It will also discuss how the United States can calibrate its policy to build ecologically sustainable and socially licensed mining in Latin America. Our friend Morgan Bazilian of the CO School of Mines is a panelist.
Forum Looks at Carbon Emissions – The American Security Project holds an event on Wednesday January 25th at 12:30 p.m. on innovating ways to reduce emissions. As the private sector, federal regulators and climate activists search for more tools to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, active carbon management approaches like carbon capture, utilization, and storage - once seen as too costly and/or too risky - are gaining renewed attention. DOE’s Jennifer Wilcox is among the panelists.
Mexico Energy Infrastructure Forum Set – The 8th Mexico Infrastructure Projects Forum will take place in Monterrey on January 25-26th. In its eighth year, this unique energy infrastructure event brings together high-level executives from various industries and provides access to key decision makers. Fields of interest are engineering, construction, hydrocarbon, energy, decarbonization, renewables, logistics, service providers, investors, and lenders. The forum connects attendees with international speakers from the private and public sector, including multi-lateral development banks and project sponsors from Mexico, Texas and the US.
EESI Starts Climate Camp Explainers – On Thursday January 26th at 2:00 p.m., the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) holds its start-of-the-new Congress briefing series, Climate Camp. EESI will go over the basics of the legislative process, highlighting key areas and opportunities for climate mitigation and adaptation policy. The first session in EESI’s Congressional Climate Camp series will bring you up to speed on the budget and appropriations process already underway for fiscal year 2024. Panelists will draw on examples of funding for climate, energy, and environment programs to bring the process to life and show how it plays out in practice.
USEA Energy Forum Set – The US Energy Assn holds its 19th annual State of the Energy Industry Forum on Thursday January 26th at the National Press Club. The event will feature CEOs from all Washington’s key top trade association heads on current policy drivers, objectives and priorities for the coming year.
Beaudreau, DOE Headline Supply Chain Issues Forum in CO – The Colorado School of Mines Payne Institute holds a symposium on Thursday January 26th and Friday January 27th in Golden, CO. The event will be a two-day forum looking at supply chain transparency for mines. Speakers will include Interior’s Tommy Beaudreau, DOE’s Doug Hollett and Zack Valdez and Circulor’s Ellen Carey.
Distributed Wind Forum, Lobby Day Set – The Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA) holds Distributed Wind 2023 on January 27th at the Residence Inn in Arlington, VA. The event is the tenth annual where the leaders of the distributed and community wind industry convene to showcase this sector of the wind industry to an audience of policy makers, agency staff, and renewable energy industry leaders.
Press Club to Host National Geographic Magazine Founder – The National Press Club hosts Gilbert Grosvenor, the former chairman of the National Geographic Society and editor of its magazine, to discuss his half-century career with one of the world’s most recognizable magazines at 2:00 p.m. Friday, January 27th in the Fourth Estate room.
House Oversight Chair to Address Press Club – The National Press Club will host Rep. James Comer (R-KY) at a Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Monday, January 30th at 10:00 a.m. in the Fourth Estate Room. Comer is expected to serve as the next chairman of the House Oversight Committee when Republicans take control of the House of Representatives on Jan 3. Comer has said the Oversight Committee under Republican control will focus on rooting out waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government and holding the Biden Administration accountable.
Hydrogen-Fuel Cell Seminar Set for Long Beach – The Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Assn holds its 2023 Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Seminar in Long Beach on February 7th to February 9th. The event includes a half-day workshop sponsored by the Department of Energy, morning plenary program featuring talks from government and private sector leaders, over 120 afternoon breakout presentations. Speakers include DOE’s Jeff Marootian, FCHEA head Frank Wolak and my colleague Tim Urban, among many others.
Annual Ethanol Forum Set – The Renewable Fuels Association holds its 28th annual National Ethanol Conference in Orlando from February 28th to March 2nd. The 2023 event theme “Ready. Set. Go!“ reflects the US ethanol industry’s momentum moving forward into new markets and opportunities. The NEC is the nation’s most widely attended executive-level conference for the ethanol industry. There is much to learn and experience at the NEC, where sessions featuring globally renowned speakers are interspersed with numerous networking opportunities to help the industry connect and collaborate.
CERA Week Locked In – The energy industry’s biggest event, CERA Week will be held on March 6th to March 10th in Houston. CERAWeek brings together global leaders to advance new ideas, insight and solutions to the biggest challenges facing the future of energy, the environment, and climate. CERAWeek is widely considered to be the most prestigious annual gathering of CEOs and Ministers from global energy and utilities, as well as automotive, manufacturing, policy and financial communities, along with a growing presence of tech. Speakers include White House Advisor John Podesta, former Energy Secretaries Ernest Moniz (now at EFI) and Dan ‘Brouillette (now at Sempra Infrastructure), State’s Amos Hochstein, IEA’s Fatih Birol and dozens of energy CEOs.
ACORE Policy Forum Set – The annual ACORE Policy Forum on March 9th in Washington, D.C. with the annual ACORE Awards Gala the evening before. The event will feature important discussions around ensuring the success of the Inflation Reduction Act, building the clean energy workforce of tomorrow, and what is needed to catalyze a domestic clean energy supply chain and upgraded electric grid to meet our decarbonization goals and achieve the clean energy transition.
Granholm to Headline Energy Track at SXSW Conference – The South by Southwest Festival and Conference will be held on Friday March 10th to Sunday March 19th. The Energy track runs From Friday to Sunday and will feature Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. Our friend Morgan Bazilian of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines will discuss the EV battery supply chain, Jane Stricker of the Houston Energy Transition Initiative will look at energy Transition issues and another friend Julian Spector of Canary Media will also talk energy. There will also be a Climate and Transportation track. The SXSW Conference provides an opportunity for the global community of digital creatives to encounter cutting-edge ideas, discover new interests, and network with other professionals who share a similar appetite for forward-focused experiences.
SAFE Summit To Address EV Supply Chains, Infrastructure – Senior business leaders from the world’s leading automobile, mining, and transportation corporations as well as White House and senior government officials are scheduled to headline the SAFE Summit: A Pathway to Electrification from Minerals to Market, on March 28-29th in Washington, D.C. The summit aims to seize the historical moment provided by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The two-day event, co-hosted by SAFE and the Electrification Coalition, will offer practical next solutions that will, in collaboration with U.S. allies and partners, build out robust and reliable supply chains and supporting infrastructure for the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and the broader energy transition. John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation will address the summit on the Biden Administration’s agenda and priorities; as will Jigar Shah, Director of the Loan Programs Office at the Department of Energy. Top-tiered sponsors and speakers include FedEx Chairman Fred Smith, Nissan Motor Company, and Teck Resources Limited CEO Jonathan Price. Additional SAFE Summit sponsors include Lithium Americas, Lyten, The Metals Company (TMC), and DLT Labs.
MIT Energy Conference Set – MIT holds its annual energy conference on April 11th and 12th in Boston.