Webinars

Perovskite kicks into unrelenting growth in 2026 for 20 years

LIVE Webinar, Thursday September 21st, 2023 at 2pm BST

Analyst presentation and Audience Q&A

Presented by Rethink Energy’s Solar Analyst, Andries Wantenaar

This webinar is an introduction to Rethink Energy’s Global Perovskites Forecast 2023-2040

Perovskites in photo voltaic systems shows how every indicator – manufacturing activity, equipment supply and successful pilots – points to significant ramp in installed Perovskite systems from 2026 onwards, taking over the industry inside another decade.

Geothermal Forecast to 2050

Thursday July 20th, 4pm BST

This live webinar provides an introduction to the latest report from Rethink Energy, ‘Geothermal Forecast to 2050’.

If you’re in strategic planning for an oil company, investor, government policy, or an oil services company, you must take into account the speed at which drilling will shift from oil discovery to geothermal services.  This new report from Rethink Energy puts planning parameters on that, and shows that the timing is a lot closer than most people in this community currently believe.

The on-demand recording will be available afterwards, for anyone who cannot attend the live event.  Register to be notified.

Rethink Energy Question Time: “What is the best way to transport Hydrogen in the new hydrogen economy?”

Thursday June 22nd, 4pm BST

We’d like to invite you to attend our next Rethink Energy Question Time entitled “What is the best way to transport Hydrogen in the new hydrogen economy?” where experts and guests will answer questions on what they believe are the best ways of planning the transport of hydrogen around the world. The price of admission is to simply provide us with a serious question.

When you register for the show you will be sent an email asking you to contribute a question. It must be on the subject of storing or transporting hydrogen and it can come from a news item you have read in the past few issues of Rethink Energy or be based on a concern that constantly slows your company’s business planning.

Expert panel:  

Matthew Kay | Principal Research Engineer, National Composites Centre

Gary Hornby | Deputy Editor – Hydrogen, ICIS

Robert Seehawer | Managing Director, AquaVentus

Bogdan Avramuta | Senior Hydrogen Analyst & Editor of Rethink Energy, Rethink Research

Peter White | CEO & Principal Analyst of Rethink Energy, Rethink Research (MODERATOR)

Rethink Energy | Global Hydrogen Market

In this LIVE 30-minute webinar – on Thursday June 1st at 4pm BST – Rethink Research’s CEO and Co-Founder, Peter White, and Hydrogen Analyst, Bogdan Avramuta, will guide you through the findings of our latest report on the Global Hydrogen Market.

Audience questions are encouraged during the session.  If you’d like to submit your questions ahead of the event, or to arrange a private discussion, please contact us.

The associated Rethink Energy forecast can be found here.

Rethink Energy | Distributed Energy Resources and the Global Solar Market

In this LIVE webinar – on Tuesday May 9th at 12pm GMT – Rethink Research’s CEO and Co-Founder, Peter White, and Solar Analyst, Andries Wantenaar, will guide you through the findings of our latest report on Distributed Energy Resources and the Global Solar Market.

Audience questions are encouraged during the session.  If you’d like to submit your questions ahead of the event, or to arrange a private discussion, please contact us.

The associated Rethink Energy forecast can be found here.

Energy Question Time - The Inflation Reduction Act

The third Rethink Energy Question Time was called “Will the Inflation Reduction save the planet or lead to a global trade war?”

Annual Primary Electricity 3.0: Russian war wakes sleeping renewables giants of post 2030 power

Rethink’s new 30 year forecast is called Annual Primary Electricity 3.0: Russian war wakes sleeping renewables giants of post 2030 power .

It’s one year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It’s also a few months since the US Inflation Reduction Act was passed. How have these events affected the short-term energy market? This webinar, hosted by Rethink Energy analysts Peter White and Bogdan Avramuta, strives to explain all this and more. It’s illustrated with slides exploring the shape of sub-markets like solar, wind, hydrogen and energy storage across 30 countries that are the world’s biggest electricity consumers.

Energy Question Time - Hydrogen Special

Energy Question Time

The Rethink Energy analysts, Peter White, Bogdan Avramuta, Andries Wantenaar and Connor Watts were joined by energy experts Kingsmill Bond (RMI), Ronan Kilduff (Elgin Energy) and Harry Morgan (7percent Ventures).

They answered questions set by an audience of energy professonals.

0:00 Introductions

4:35 How low can solar PV energy production (excluding transmission & storage) go per kWh in the most productive locations on the planet in 5 years time?

13:10 What is the current price of green hydrogen production in the UK (and globally) and what are the projections for the next decade?

22:10 Will the necessary and updated EU RES targets (REPowerEU) actually get built by 2030 given the current permitting delays and supply chain constraints?

34:10 What targets are there for energy storage in the EU and the UK?

44:00 What targets are there for energy storage in the EU AND UK Would green ammonia finally prove to be the best way to store and transport green hydrogen?

48:50 Why does the panel think the UK government is so insistent on ambitious nuclear targets?

53:30 China dominates the production of cleanenergy technologies (solar, wind, batteries), where will US/Europe outcompete going forward?

61:30 What role can small-scale 1 MW DER play in creating a renewable energy future?

Rethink Energy will introduce a series of themed Question Time events in the New Year.

SAF is a fantasy, and not the TRUE route for decarbonization

Global EV markets rally despite weak overall car sales

While the overall car market may seem a little deflated, EVs have been the standout performer as more individuals realize that they are the future, and it’s better to get one now than continue suffering from high fuel prices.

In this report we are going to update our previous forecast to account for relevant events that have transpired over the last year and how this has changed our EV market outlook going forwards to the end of the decade.

PV installs explode despite hurdles – jump 87 GW, more to come

The latest count of global solar installations from Rethink Energy, and how it is distributed globally.  How did the world manage to install so much solar, with so many hurdles placed in front of development?

BESS to see mass adoption of alternative batteries alongside li-ion; Energy Storage Forecast to 2050

‘Energy Transition: Multi-$trillion Ponzi scheme or the biggest tech market ever

This video is the property of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment of the University of Bath – where our CEO Peter White addressed an audience of academics and business leaders on the subject of the energy transition and its sudden acceleration and the consequences (see a PDF copy of the slides here). The data comes from our Annual Primary Electricity forecast, and especially our EV report which is part of that dataset, which is also found in Research and Data under the title “Tesla versus ExxonMobil – who’s right?” – Rethink Energy’s definitive 30 year forecast on EVs and eMobility, which can be purchased for $3,800 from this site.

Why are clean energy forecasts always completely wrong?

Join us for a webinar with Matt Ives and Moritz Riede, where they explain how they reached the conclusion that renewables are going to be SO MUCH BIGGER THAN EVERYONE REALIZES

A paper came across our desk last week entitled “Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition,” and immediately Rethink Energy had a case of Déjà Vu.

It reminded us of our first energy forecast – we looked at it and decided we could not possibly publish it, because it was twice the size of those of our rivals – we were tempted to tone it down a little bit (we didn’t).

But “Empirically grounded…” is from people who are not experts in energy markets but complex systems modellers and mathematicians. In this presentation, Matthew Ives, Senior Researcher in Complex Systems & Economic Modelling, Oxford Martin School & Moritz Riede, Professor of Soft Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, UK explain the workings behind the new paper.

With questions put by Peter White, Senior Analyst, Rethink Energy, this absorbing and fast-paced webinar shows a scenario of projected energy production costs taking in climate change mitigation models, Moore’s Law, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Wright’s Law and plunging PV manufacturing prices, among others.

What do rising global gas prices mean to energy markets?

The effort of providing electricity for HVAC top 21 countries

Find out how Rethink Energy put together a realistic model that can be used to predict the electricity output requirement for changes in HVAC between now and 2050; as featured in the new forecast, Warming and Cooling – double whammy for the grid.

Hosted by senior analyst Peter White

CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) – comeback or requiem?

What are the market opportunities for CSP? Which type of CSP designs are succeeding? Why does the LCOE of CSP decline so dramatically?

The answers to these questions, and more, can be seen and heard in the webinar held to unveil our report and forecast, Last Chance Saloon for Gen 3 CSP which details how a near-forgotten type of renewable energy and is about to stage a comeback.

Rethink’s Solar Analyst and host, Andries Wantenaar was joined by guest speakers Bruce Anderson,  CEO of 247Solar, John Ingram, CEO of Focal Line Solar, and Craig Wood CEO of Vast Solar. Each giving a brief presentation of their work, the event was followed by discussion and a lively Q&A session from the audience.

Renewables Set to Unlock $2.2 Trillion Green Steel Monster

In this 30-minute presentation with slides, Rethink Energy analyst Harry Morgan explains the research behind our latest forecast, Renewables Set to Unlock $2.2 Trillion Green Steel Monster – which details the dramatic transformation that the global steelmaking industry will undergo through to 2050

Why will steel will not follow coal, oil and gas, in reaching peak demand by 2050? How come recycled steel can only provide half the answer to a net zero future? How quickly will hydrogen-based DRI displace bio-fuel/CCUS innovation?

And most importantly … How can steelmaking set itself on course for a zero emissions future?

Find out all this, and more, by watching this free webinar.

How to turn gas and oil pipelines into “green” revenue

Compressed air innovation creates green revenue in repurposing dormant pipelines for power transmission

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But in this webinar, held in a press conference format, we were joined by senior executives from a new company called Breeze which is being formed around a brilliant idea to turn dormant pipelines into a transmission network for renewable energy.

Watch as Rethink Energy’s senior analyst Peter White heard from Breeze along with live Q&As from members of the audience