You're Invited: Energy Past vs Energy Future with Energy Innovation's Robbie Orvis | Dec 8 at 12:00pm ET
As 2025 comes to a close, it's been a pivotal year for energy policy.
COP30 just wrapped up, the IEA released its latest World Energy Outlook, and here in Canada, the federal government and Alberta signed a major memorandum of understanding on energy and emissions. It's the perfect time to take stockāwhere have our energy systems been, and where are they headed?
To help us answer that, David, Sara and Ed chat with Robbie Orvis, Senior Director of Modeling & Analysis at Energy Innovation. They'll look back at the biggest energy stories of 2025 across North Americaāthe trends, the surprises, and where we stand on the transitionābefore doing some crystal ball gazing about what to watch for in 2026.
Register today and join the live discussion on December 8 at 12pm ET/10am MT.
About Our Guest:
Robbie Orvis is Senior Director, Modeling & Analysis at Energy Innovation. As a specialist in energy and climate policy, Robbie routinely works with federal and state policymakers in the U.S. as well as international policymakers to analyze legislation and regulation and to provide insights on how to achieve climate goals. He has helped develop and deploy Energy Policy Simulator models in more than a dozen countries, including Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and the United States, and to analyze decarbonization pathways in each region.
Robbie is the lead author of Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy and frequently provides insights to decision-makers on how to design policies to achieve deep decarbonization. His research is regularly cited in the nationās top news outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, Bloomberg, and the Los Angeles Times, and he is a regular contributor to Forbes.
About Your Co-Hosts:
David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.
Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. Sheās a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary where she teaches in the Energy Science program, and co-leads the Net Zero Electricity Research Initiative. She has a particular interest in the mid-transition.
Ed Whittingham isnāt a physicist but is a passionate environmental professional. He is the founder of Advance Carbon Removal, a coalition advancing demand side solutions for carbon removal in Canada. He is also the former CEO of the Pembina Institute, Canadaās widely respected energy/environment NGO. His op-eds have been published in newspapers and magazines across Canada and internationally.
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