Cleaning Up Episode 5: Kirsty Gogan
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change
English - August 19, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBEntrepreneurship Business Technology green climate action clean energy sustainability climate change energy renewable energy climate environment technology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What role (if any) should nuclear play in a low carbon future? Should we build more large-scale light-water reactors despite high costs? Is nuclear safe? Kirsty Gogan, a leading voice on nuclear power answers all of the above.
In addition to being an authority on nuclear, Kirsty is an award-winning expert on science communication, climate change, and competitiveness.
She is managing partner of LucidCatalyst, a specialized consultancy, recently commissioned by the Energy Technologies Institute to produce their Nuclear Cost Drivers Study, and by ARPA-E (the US agency charged with accelerating next-generation energy technologies) to conduct a study on Cost and Performance Requirements for Flexible Advanced Nuclear Plants in Future U.S. Power Markets.
Kirsty chairs the UK Government’s Nuclear Innovation Research and Advisory Board (NIRAB) Cost Reduction Working Group. In 2019, NIRAB recommended investment of USD1.3 billion between 2021 and 2025 to boost the progress of innovation, leading to a package of measures designed to support UK net zero goals in 2020.
Kirsty is also Co-founder and Global Director of Energy for Humanity (EFH), an environmental NGO focused on large scale deep decarbonisation and energy access.
Links:
Kirsty’s bio on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-gogan-alexander-8153095/
Lucid Catalyst
https://www.lucidcatalyst.com/
Energy for Humanity
https://energyforhumanity.org/
Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board
https://www.nirab.org.uk/
Cost and performance requirements for flexible advanced nuclear plants in US power markets
https://www.lucidcatalyst.com/arpa-e-report-nuclear-costs
Cost drivers identified to support investment in new nuclear power and its role in the UK’s future, low carbon energy system
https://www.eti.co.uk/news/cost-drivers-identified-to-support-investment-in-new-nuclear-power-and-its-role-in-the-uks-future-low-carbon-energy-system
IEA Technology Perspectives 2020
https://www.iea.org/topics/energy-technology-perspectives
FT Open Letter on EU sustainable finance for nuclear energy and climate
http://energyforhumanity.org/en/news-events/news/news/ft-open-letter-eu-sustainable-finance-nuclear-energy-climate/