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In this latest OIES podcast, brought to you by the Gas Research Programme, James Henderson talks to Jack Sharples and Mike Fulwood about the outlook for the global gas market before having a more focused discussion with Michal Meidan about the prospects for Chinese gas demand in 2023. Jack and Mike review the key signposts that highlighted at the start of 2023 and which we continue to monitor the...

China is by far the world's largest producer and consumer of hydrogen, mostly from coal and other fossil fuels, and the country has an ambitious hydrogen strategy. In this podcast, we dive into the provincial strategies on hydrogen in China, and specifically discuss a recent paper published by the Institute entitled, China's hydrogen development: A tale of three cities. The paper looks at the expe...

In this podcast, David Ledesma discusses with Alix Chambris, Christoph Riechmann and Jacob Janssen some of the challenges and the practicalities in the decarbonization of heat in the European buildings sector. Alix Chambris argues that the current crisis may have presented Europe with a unique opportunity. Overnight, the replacement of gas for space heating became a top priority for energy securit...

In this podcast David Ledesma discusses with Thomas Nowak, Michael Taylor and Katja Kruit the role of policies in the decarbonization of heat in the European buildings sector. Thomas Nowak argues that while heat pump sales have soared in recent years, we are still way off from where we need to be. Thomas advocates for policymakers to select the most efficient technology and then implement all nece...

In this latest OIES podcast, brought to you by the OIES Gas Research Programme, James Henderson talks to Nitin Zamre about his latest paper "Gas sector reforms in India: How will it change the market outlook?". They start by reviewing the current state of the Indian gas market, looking at the main centers of demand as well as discussing the history of and prospects for indigenous supply. A key dri...

China's Two Sessions – the yearly meetings of China's top legislature and top political advisory bodies – is a key date in the Chinese political calendar, and an important point to check the pulse of policy discussions in Beijing on energy and climate. This year held special significance as President Xi Jinping's new leadership team begins its term. In this podcast, Michal Meidan, Head of China Re...

On January 31st, 2023, S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts) confirmed the inclusion of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Midland in the forward Brent (BFOET) contract from June 2023 and provided further guidance. This followed the introduction of WTI Midland into Dated Brent in June 2022. In this podcast David Ledesma talks with Adi Imsirovic and Kurt Chapman about this change and about how the chan...

David Ledesma discusses with Alex Barnes the European Commission's decision to make hydrogen a key part of its decarbonisation strategy. The 2022 REPowerEU Strategy set a target of 20MT consumption of renewable hydrogen by 2030. The Commission is keen to promote a single European market in hydrogen, similar to the current one for natural gas. To this end it has published proposals on the regulatio...

In this latest OIES podcast, brought to you by the OIES Gas Research Programme, James Henderson talks to Jack Sharples and Mike Fulwood about the current state of global gas markets. They start by reviewing prices, which have fallen sharply over the past six months, before considering the key drivers of supply and demand that have led to this outcome. They look at demand in Europe, which has been...

In this podcast David Ledesma talks to Mohua Mukherjee about her recent paper titled "India's Ongoing Solar Rooftop Journey from 2017-2022".  The discussion points out the striking contrast in terms of progress in India's utility scale solar performance, which is far ahead of expectations, and its rooftop solar performance which is far behind the initial targets. India is the first developing coun...

In this latest OIES podcast, Michal Meidan talks to Yan Qin about Europe's proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and its implications for China. Michal and Yan discuss the next steps for CBAM as well as the response in China: the official rhetoric as well as the response from Chinese industry. Even though the near term impact is limited, Yan argues that Chinese industrial stakeholders...

In this latest OIES podcast, brought to you by the Gas Programme, James Henderson talks to Mostefa Ouki about his latest Energy Comment on the increasing gas relationship between Italy and North Africa and the possibility of the development of a Mediterranean gas hub. The discussion ranges from the export potential of countries such as Algeria, Libya and Egypt to the question of demand in Europe o...

China's low-carbon energy transition depends on the power sector taking the lead. In this OIES podcast, we talk with Anders Hove, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute, to discuss his recent paper on China's power sector energy transition. The paper looks at three questions: (1) Is the power sector transition on track, in terms of non-fossil and renewable capacity and output? (2) Are market refo...

In this podcast, David Ledesma talks to Hasan Muslemani, Head of Carbon Management Research at OIES, about his ongoing research on greening the steel industry. Hasan discusses the outlook for incorporating low-carbon technologies into the sector, particularly carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen solutions. Barriers and opportunities for each technology are also discussed, including indica...

In this podcast David Ledesma discusses with Ilia Bouchouev the latest developments related to an unprecedented release of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. They set the stage by describing the mission of the SPR and how its recent usage compares to previous episodes. An important distinction is made between SPR loans and SPR sales. They look at the SPR strategy from the perspective of the com...

In this latest OIES podcast, produced by the Gas Programme, James Henderson interviews Vitaly Yermakov about his latest paper "Catch 22 for Russia Gas: plenty of capacity amid disappearing market," which was published in late January. In the podcast they discuss the sharp decline in Russian gas production in 2022, reviewing both the overall numbers but also the disparity between output from non-Ga...

China's electric vehicle (EV) and plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) market continued its incredible growth in 2022, reaching nearly 7 million in total domestic sales. The EV and PHEV market share reached 25% for the year and even surpassed 30% in the final months of the year. That's up from just a 5% market share only two years ago.   In this podcast, Michal Meidan talks to OIES Senior Research Fellow...

In this podcast David Ledesma talks with Rahmat Poudineh and Martin Palovic about their paper on integrating hydrogen into the European energy transfer infrastructure landscape. As hydrogen is expected to play an important role in European plans towards climate neutrality, adequate hydrogen transport (and storage) infrastructure needs to be established. However, hydrogen transport infrastructures...

In this latest OIES podcast the Gas Programme brings you a discussion on the outlook for gas markets in 2023, based on analysis in our latest Quarterly. James Henderson talks to Mike Fulwood, Jack Sharples and Anouk Honoré about the critical signposts to look out for over the next 12 months, including gas prices, the future of Russian supply to Europe, the outlook for global LNG, Asian gas demand,...

In this podcast, David Ledesma speaks to Hasan Muslemani and Mathieu Lucquiaud about their forthcoming research paper on the potential to generate negative emissions from European Waste-to-Energy (WtE) sector using carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. The authors discuss the role that WtE can play in dealing with residual waste from municipal, commercial and industrial sources, and how CCS...

In this latest OIES podcast the Gas Programme brings you a discussion of gas markets in South-East Europe and their efforts to diversify away from Russian gas. James Henderson talks to Julian Bowden about his latest paper on the topic, in which he outlines that although the region is relatively small in gas terms it nevertheless provides an interesting example of the general moves in Europe to est...

In this Podcast David Ledesma discusses with Stephen Craen, Visiting Research Fellow OIES, the challenges facing the financing of future hydrogen projects as it is expected that a substantial amount of capital will need to be invested in green hydrogen production to meet the 2050 net zero targets. Based around an 'Archetype' world scale hydrogen export project, where 1 GW solar power is used to ma...

With an installed capacity of 56 GWe, China has the world's third largest fleet of civilian nuclear reactors and its ambitious expansion programme will give it the largest fleet by 2030. In this podcast, Anders Hove talks to Philip Andrews-Speed about China's nuclear programme: the policy priorities informing the nuclear build out and nuclear technologies—where China leads, but also where it faces...

In this OIES podcast we present the first of a new Gas Programme series which will offer insights into the global gas market and some of the key gas topics being researched by the fellows at the Institute. In this edition James Henderson talks to Mike Fulwood and Jack Sharples about the current state of the global gas market and in particular the outlook for the supply and demand balance and price...

In this latest OIES podcast David Ledesma talks to Michal Meidan and James Henderson about a forthcoming OIES research paper on the Key Themes for the Global Energy Economy in 2023. The overarching theme is the rebalancing of the energy trilemma, with energy security taking a more prominent position alongside affordability, while sustainability is a lower priority in the short-term. This is partic...