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Episode: OIES Podcast – Rethinking Europe's energy trilemma
Description: In this latest OIES podcast, Michal Meidan and Bill Farren-Price talk to Michael Martin Richter about the complex trade-offs in Europe's energy transition and the need to balance energy security, industrial competitiveness and sustainability. They discuss the key takeaways from a joint workshop organised by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and the Hanns Seidel Foundation UK and highlight a number of challenges facing Europe: First, the energy price premium that hinders industrial competitiveness. Second, despite a desire to accelerate the energy transition, Europe is facing growing political friction and pushback against the costs of the energy transition. Th...