Infrastructure at the Heart: Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model Challenge. Not Tech. | The Curious Learners Ep. 46

20/06/2025 12 min
Infrastructure at the Heart: Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model Challenge. Not Tech. | The Curious Learners Ep. 46

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🎧 New Podcast Episode: Infrastructure at the Heart — Why the Energy Transition Is a Delivery and Business Model ChallengeWe often hear that clean technologies like solar, wind, and batteries are the key to decarbonisation. But the real challenge isn’t about technological breakthroughs. It’s about delivery, getting projects permitted, financed, built, and connected to systems that weren’t designed for this kind of transformation.In this episode of The Curious Learners, I explore why infrastructure, not innovation, is the critical bottleneck in the energy transition. Narrated by my AI co-hosts, the episode unpacks:Why execution risk is now the dominant risk for investorsHow policy, permitting, and market design are stalling progressWhy business model innovation matters more than hardware breakthroughsWhat’s missing in how we evaluate and scale climate-tech infrastructureBacked by insights from the World Economic Forum, McKinsey, Allianz Capital Partners, and CDPQ, this is a systems-level look at where the real work lies in the net-zero journey.🎙️ Listen in and share your thoughts — is it tech that’s holding us back, or something deeper?#EnergyTransition #ClimateTech #Infrastructure #CleanEnergy #NetZero #PrivateEquity #TheCuriousLearners

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