Three Wärtsilä executives are the featured speakers at an exclusive Chilean Association of Renewable Energies and Storage (ACERA) event in Chile on September 14. Jussi Heikinnen, Director Growth and Development, Silvia Zummaraga, Market Development Manager, and Alejandro McDonough, Managing Director, will present details and recommendations from Wärtsilä Energy’s Front-Loading Net Zero report. The report uses
How do we build the energy system of the future? Jussi Heikkinen, Director of Growth & Development at Wärtsilä Energy in the Americas, has 40 years of experience in the energy sector so he has some expert insight into the issue, which he shared on a recent Wärtsilä podcast with Terence Mentor. The main goal Read more →
Wärtsilä’s Karl Meeusen, Director of Markets, Legislative and Regulatory Policy, recently appeared on Veritan’s Close of Business Tuesday (COBT) podcast, discussing the importance of reliable capacity as we work to meet ambitious decarbonization goals. Those goals are great, Meeusen told C.O.B. Tuesday host Maynard Holt, but there’s a risk if utility operators move too quickly Read more →
In a recent article contributed to EnergyTech, Wärtsilä Energy’s Karl Meeusen, Director of Markets, Legislative, and Regulatory Policy, and Bhawramaett Broehm, Energy Market Analyst, outline the importance of portfolio diversity in enabling the renewable energy transition. As noted in the article, the increase of renewable resources on the grid, like wind and solar, is a Read more →
Wärtsilä Energy’s Jon Rodriguez was a recent guest on New Project Media’s NPM Interconnections Podcast. “We have a tremendous message and meaning as a company that aligns with the industry trend to allow renewables to be the future power source for humanity,” he said. “Wärtsilä is in a great position to help that.” Wärtsilä is Read more →
Government leaders and organizations across the world have made ambitious commitments to decarbonize electricity and support the transition toward a 100% renewable energy future. The path to 100% clean energy won’t be the same everywhere, but to succeed, each country will need strong leadership, partnerships between governments and private industry and a commitment to making Read more →
Hydrogen is the biggest buzz word these days when it comes to decarbonization, and for good reason. It’s carbon-free, can easily be created from and used to store renewable energy sources, and can be used in gas turbines to increase power system flexibility and reduce carbon emissions. That last benefit is the focus of a Read more →
By: Risto Paldanius, Vice President, Americas at Wärtsilä In 2020, Wärtsilä’s state-of-the-art power-system modeling revealed that California can reach its renewable energy and emissions targets faster than planned while saving ratepayers billions of dollars. Now, two years later, that projection is coming to fruition with recent developments in the Golden State. According to the California Read more →
Some of the women helping lead the energy transition will join forces to speak about the challenges facing decarbonization in the April 21 webinar entitled “Women as the engine of the energy transition,” hosted by ATA Insights. Moderating the panel will be Patricia Tatto, VP America ATA Renewables and a member of the Path to Read more →
Across the world, the Path to 100% clean energy is underway. To get there, countries must transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources like wind and solar. It sounds easy, but there are many questions remaining, and the answers likely vary by region. Nearly everyone agrees that we have to find a way to balance Read more →
Navigating the transition to a clean energy future is once again the focus of the 2022 Latin America Energy Forum. Latin America is filled with experts, organizations and government leaders committed to accelerating the path to decarbonization. This event, set for March 16-18 in Washington, DC, promises to bring together those leaders with international investors, Read more →
By: Jussi Heikkinen The Biden administration and Puerto Rico have joined together to launch an ambitious, collective effort to accelerate the growth of renewable energy resources and strengthen the island’s grid – promising 2022 will be “a year of action” in the transition to 100% clean energy over the next three decades. The partnership involves Read more →
Chile has set an ambitious goal to decarbonize the country’s electricity generation by 2050, one of the most ambitious decarbonization targets in the world. But how will the country reach its goals? A recent Wärtsilä white paper, “Chile Leading the World to a 100% Zero Carbon Power System” presents the optimal path for decarbonization in Read more →
