CERAWeek Podcast with Atul Arya

Ecopetrol has been a key pillar of Colombia's growth and development into a modern, robust, and dynamic economy. Amid the changing landscape from COVID-19, the market downturn, and the energy transition, Chief Executive Felipe Bayón shares how Ecopetrol is positioning itself for the future. He explores the financial resilience, diversified portfolio, technology focus, and inclusive development of unconventionals that will continue to strengthen both company and country.

Distributed energy resources (DERs) are proliferating in power grids around the world as customers seek greater control over the cost and environmental footprint of their electricity use. In this CERAWeek Conversation, power industry leaders examine the technologies and business models that are driving the market for DERs. Lior Handelsman, Founder & VP Marketing, Product Strategy, SolarEdge Technologies, and Surya Panditi, President & CEO, Enel X, look at the issues of rapid uptake, digitalization, resiliency, and cybersecurity that are transforming the way customers use and generate electricity.

How will major power players respond to a future that demands greater energy but lower emissions? In this CERAWeek Conversation industry executives discuss the path to decarbonize the power sector. Ralph Izzo, Chairman & CEO, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), and H.E. Mohamed Al Hammadi, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), address the debate over carbon pricing, concerns about nuclear, the gains from energy efficiency and the impact of COVID-19 on regional consumption patterns.

Upstream oil and gas faces unprecedented headwinds: the COVID market downturn, the role of hydrocarbons in the energy transition, and investor demands for stronger returns. In this CERAWeek Conversation, industry executives make the case for upstream investment in the current environment. Timothy E. Perry, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Oil and Gas, Credit Suisse, Adif Zulkifli, Executive Vice President and CEO, Upstream, PETRONAS, and Tomás García Blanco, Executive Managing Director of Exploration & Production, Repsol assess industry trends and the pathways that can allow the upstream business to prosper going forward.

Can the energy transition be accelerated? Executives from the world's leading oil and gas companies explore the issue in this CERAWeek Conversation. Ahmad Al Khowaiter, Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco, and Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Executive Vice President, ENGIE, examine the technologies and decarbonization strategies that can have the greatest impact in lowering emissions and achieving a low carbon future.

Follow the money in the world of energy and investing in this CERAWeek Conversation. Musabbeh Al Kaabi, Chief Executive, Petroleum & Petrochemicals, Mubadala Investment Company, and Marcel van Poecke, Head of Carlyle International Energy Fund, Carlyle International Energy Partners, share inside perspective on how private equity and sovereign wealth funds are strategizing for the future. They assess the market adjustments to energy investments, new opportunities to deploy capital, and the changing criteria for valuing energy assets.

Analysts and industry investors discuss the COVID-19 shock and other major forces that are emerging for next generation biofuels, with a focus on Europe and the Americas. Shailesh Sahay, Senior Regulatory Counsel, POET, Fernanda Delgado, Professor and Researcher, FGV Energia and Christoph Berg, Managing Director, Agribusiness Intelligence, IHS Markit, examine advanced technologies, carbon intensity improvements, and policy support affecting next generation biofuels.

Jason Zander, Executive Vice President of Microsoft, speaks with IHS Markit Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin about the future of the digital world: 5G, quantum computing, industrial IoT, and the digital transformations and cloud services that are changing the business of energy.

Experts from industry look at the role of CCUS in meeting long-term emission targets. Cindy Yeilding, Senior Vice President, BP America, Jon Christopher Knudsen, Vice President, Global Business Development, Aker Solutions, and Scott Willis, Vice President, Commercial Development, Occidental Petroleum, examine the current state of CCUS technologies, prospects for decarbonizing heavy-emitting sectors, and the impact of carbon pricing on accelerating CCUS uptake.

Sunita Narain, Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment, a public interest research organization based in New Delhi, connects the crises of climate change, COVID-19 and global poverty and examines a new economic agenda that emphasizes the environment and the well-being of society.