Episode 041: TransAlta’s John Kousinioris on the transformation to a net zero 2050 world

Flux Capacitor by Francis Bradley

Episode notes

Recorded on Zoom in late July 2021, episode 41 is the fifth in a series of podcasts seeking to unpack Canada’s Net Zero 2050 greenhouse gas target. For this episode, John Kousinioris, President and CEO of TransAlta, discusses the transition off coal and other actions intended deliver carbon neutrality for TransAlta by 2050. We talk GHG reduction targets, existing and emerging technologies, from CCS to hydrogen, and the challenges of meeting demand in the winter. As usual, we close the conversation with some book recommendations, and John turns the tables on me to find out what I’m reading.