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Michael Liebreich

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As seen in: Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change, Substack, Apple Podcasts, LinkedIn, Medium, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Yahoo Finance, Agenda (World Economic Forum), Foreign Affairs, City A.M., Oilprice.com and
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Let's target 35% electrification, but of what?

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By Michael Liebreich
| Substack
Electricity as a percentage of Final Energy versus penetration of EVs and heat pumps. As you electrify, both numerator and denominator fall, so the ratio barely budges at first, only to soar once you get to high electric penetration. (Vehicle assumptions: end-use efficiency for internal combustion vehicles 20%, EVs 90%; heating assumptions: boiler/furnace/heater efficiency 90%; heat pump COP 3).
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Michael Liebreich on whatever the question, clean energy is the answer

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By Michael Liebreich
| The Fifth Estate Verified
This is a lightly edited transcript of Michael Liebreich’s speech at the Press Club on Tuesday on predicting that the Middle East crisis could provoke years of turbulence, sparking a second coming of “the great clean energy acceleration”. Many thanks for that introduction. I would like to add my own acknowledgement of the Ngunnawal people, and pay my respect to their elders, customs and continuous culture. I feel enormously honoured to be addressing you here today – and not a little intimidated.
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The Electrification Staircase is go!

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By Michael Liebreich
| Substack
The Electrification Staircase 1.0. Image: Electrification Alliance - but don’t worry, check the small print, feel free to download it and use it, that’s the whole point. It is a truth universally acknowledged that all roads to a future of clean, affordable, resilient and abundant energy must run through the valley of deep electrification. So it’s quite a relief after five years of hydrogen, hydrogen, hydrogen, that the word on everyone’s lips around the world is now electrification.
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