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How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All
The WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin was bursting with innovative ideas for reaching net zero and on working together at an ever-greater scale.
Zoisa North-Bond, the CEO of Octopus Energy Generation, spoke about the company’s Fan Club Tariff, which cuts bills for customers living near a wind farm by up to 50 percent when their local plant is producing excess power. Although coal consumption is climbing, it will peak in 2026 as renewables come online, with MingYang Smart Energy president Qiying Zhang outlining how floating and fixed offshore wind turbines are replacing fossil fuels. Then Kidus Asfaw, founder and CEO of Kubik, an Ethiopian construction company that creates a low carbon, low-cost building material rivaling cement using just recycled plastic, had two positive messages.
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