Climate Transformed Ventures (CTV) is a methane infrastructure and origination platform company that leverages government funding and private capital to cap orphaned oil wells across the United States and Canada.
An orphaned oil well has no solvent owner of record, leaving the responsibility of capping in the hands of state and federal governments.
The EPA estimates that there are up to 3.7 million orphaned wells in North America, with the estimated cost to cap them ranging from $200bn- $300bn.
There is only $4.7bn allocated by the US Federal Government under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
This is the first phase of a multi-decade solution that will require the extensive deployment of private capital
In this discussion, we focus on nuclear energy in Europe. Europe, especially countries like the Czech Republic, see nuclear as the ultimate source of decarbonized power. Landlocked European countries have limited use for wind, and solar and nuclear can move them away from Russian fossil fuel dependence.
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Kateřina Bohuslavová is the Chief Sustainability Officer of ČEZ Group, a company based in Prague that has one of the largest utility providers in central Europe, with two nuclear plants in its portfolio. Simon Irish is the CEO of Terrestrial Energy, based in Ontario, Canada. Terrestrial Energy is developing an industrial co-generation plant that uses Generation IV reactor technology. For the first time, this provides a clean energy alternative to high-quality heat from fossil combustion.