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Fossil fuel addiction – the biggest threat to energy transition says Octopus Energy CEO

Fossil fuel addiction – the biggest threat to energy transition says Octopus Energy CEO

Pamela Largue
Posted on: 28 July 2023

“We should not forget that without fossil fuels, Putin would not have the leverage or the finances to have attacked Ukraine,” said UK’s Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson.

Greg Jackson. Image credit: Richard Boll

“We should not forget that without fossil fuels, Putin would not have the leverage or the finances to have attacked Ukraine,” said UK’s Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson.

Jackson, speaking in the opening keynote at Enlit Europe in Frankfurt after D-TEK project manager Vadym Utkin, was highlighting the risks our existing energy system has created by encouraging an overreliance on fossil fuels, and in turn, giving regimes power.

What’s the role of fossil fuels in the future? “Maybe there isn’t one,” said Jackon.

“Ukraine would not be suffering today if we weren’t so addicted to fossil fuels,” said Jackon, who stated that the war has been funded by fossil fuel purchases from the Russian regime...

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