📊 EV’s Charts of the Week #71

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DEPT OF DECARBONISATION

In the latest conversation, I got together with Shayle Kann, Partner at Energy Impact Partners and host of the much-loved podcast Catalyst. The episode comes out later today, available on our podcast feed. Shayle launched the Deep Decarbonisation Frontier Fund earlier this year, aiming to fund early-stage technologies that accelerate “deep decarbonisation”.

One of the five frontiers the fund is investing in is achieving low-cost, abundant clean electricity. In our conversation, Shayle emphasised that “we have a tendency to think that just because we’ve solved some really important things, namely how to generate renewable electricity, cheaply, …