Note sull'episodio
Recorded 23rd July: First Charlotte explores how carbon is shifting from being viewed solely as a waste product to becoming a valuable industrial feedstock. From sustainable aviation fuel and captured-carbon running shoes to low-carbon chemicals and Europe's latest industrial policy, the episode examines how renewable electricity and CO₂ are reshaping heavy industry, and what it will take to scale these technologies commercially.
Then Lucy discusses the first days of the UK's new government under Prime Minister Andy Burnham, the appointment of Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh, and what their early policy announcements could mean for energy affordability, electrification and the UK's long-term transition away from fossil fuels.
This week's topics include:
- The ASTM approval of the methanol-to-jet (MTJ) pathway, creating a second commercial Power-to-Liquid route for sustainable aviation fuel alongside Fischer-Tropsch.
- Why MTJ could lower the cost of eSAF through higher jet fuel selectivity and smaller, more modular production plants.
- How captured carbon is being turned into high-performance running shoe midsoles through Infinium and On's new partnership.
- Dioxycle's collaboration with Adani to produce low-carbon formic acid from captured CO₂ using electrolysis.
- The European Commission's proposed €100 billion Industrial Decarbonisation Bank and Carbon Contracts for Difference.
- Reforms to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), including the expansion of carbon removals and new support for industrial decarbonisation.
- The UK's new government, early energy policy signals, electricity affordability, North Sea oil and gas, and the future direction of UK energy policy.