High energy prices: Accelerator or disruptor of the zero carbon energy transition?

Peter Sainsbury
4 min readOct 14, 2021

The recent spike in energy prices and concerns over shortages is finally starting to highlight the difficult choices that governments face in trying to accelerate the zero carbon energy transition and meet their net zero targets. In this article I show some of the short and long term trade offs that they will face and whether recent events will serve to accelerate the zero carbon transition, or put the brakes on it.

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Peter Sainsbury

I write about carbon markets at carbonrisk.substack.com @CarbonRisk_ Books about commodity markets, betting and misinformation amzn.to/3A05wcH