Jason Lehrbaum’s Post

As the Easter break is approaching, it is a good time to reflect on a busy couple of weeks. Firstly we held a workshop with SSEN Transmission, Balfour Beatty, Strathclyde University and Global Thought leaders from Arcadis in how we define legacy, value and innovation to deliver future critical Transmission upgrades in the North of Scotland. Really inspirational to see all the great work planned and the opportunity to enter into a new social contract with communities and bring value to consumers. I also then had the opportunity to meet old colleagues, clients and partners at WindEurope in Bilbao. It was quite overwhelming to see the amount of companies involved in creating a netzero future with over 12000 visitors. What was evident is that there is a huge amount of enabling work in terms of grids, ports and manufacturing capacity required to realise the ambition whilst taking this opportunity for Europe to build a new energy system and mobilise a supply chain within Energy that has not been seen since the 1950's. With the amount of concrete and steel that will need to go into the environment, there is an opportunity to improve the environment (not just minimising impact) whilst building this expanding renewable and resilient grid portfolios. This is an opportunity to enhance the environment, take communities along the journey, but given the level of disruption, we really need to articulate the true cost (£, carbon and do nothing scenarios) and what long term value can be generated in terms of careers, manufacturing and secure energy supplies. Looking back at the last couple of weeks it’s been truly inspirational to see the level of momentum and commitment building. There is a lot to do!

Last month, I celebrated my one-year anniversary at Ento. What an adventure has it been! I feel incredibly fortunate to be working alongside world-class professionals, tackling some of the most significant technological challenges of our time. During my PhD research, one of the main issues I faced was the lack of real data on implemented energy efficiency measures within buildings. This challenge represented a critical gap in our ability to understand and enhance building performance on a large scale. One of the reasons that convinced me to join Ento in the first place was the possibility to access vast amounts of building energy consumption data and create measurable impact. Over the past year, I've had the exciting opportunity to be working on a cutting-edge tool for measuring and verifying energy efficiency savings in buildings. The tool has now been used to verify over 800 energy efficiency projects across almost 500 sites worldwide. More than 11 thousand tons of avoided CO2 emissions have been estimated in this way - and this is just the beginning! In the coming months, we'll be working on a tool that can leverage real-world data to advise the most climate-ambitious organizations on their strategy for carbon neutrality. Stay tuned for more exciting developments on this side!

Meanwhile, your super-production of CO2 continues. Where is your courage, your pioneering spirit? Where is your sense of responsibility? It's time to wake up, open your eyes and start a total revolution. Ready, Marc Bensadoun & company?

This week was my 1 year anniversary at South Pole! Taking time to reflect back I am so grateful to work with and learn from such a strong team. I've had the honor of working with multiple clients this year with work that has included: 🚗 Designing an Electric Vehicle adoption strategy (and building the model behind the work) ⚡ Managing multiple Scope 2 global renewable electricity strategies (and contributing to several other) 💡 Managing and designing a Scope 3 renewable electricity strategy and implementation plan that covered 120 countries and ~7,200 GWh -> that's equivalent to annual consumption of Zimbabwe! What I've learned: -Just because being a third-culture kid gives me a leg up at understanding cultural differences I still want to (and should) improve my collaboration skills across different team members and stakeholders -Carbon reduction interventions are more quickly adopted when I can provide expect costs -To think from the perspective of someone who doesn't know sustainability before I start designing any work Looking forward to another year of more opportunities and challenges!

What a year 🤩 Going into 2023, the energy crisis put dark clouds over many decarbonization efforts. When we therefore summarize this year in Aker Carbon Capture, we are thankful for the acceleration that has come out this challenging situation. Working together with partners, we have continued to deliver the first of a kind Brevik CCS project for Heidelberg Materials in Norway together with Aker Solutions. We are getting towards the end of another important project, the Twence waste-to-energy project in the Netherlands and we are well underway on the joint project signed in May where Ørsted, Microsoft, Northern Lights JV and ACC will deliver the largest bio-CCS project in the world currently. Counting all of our efforts in Aker Carbon Capture this year, this activity could potentially result in capturing 23,4 million tonnes of CO2 per year! We send thanks to our people and partners for contributing to this effort. Not many weeks ago, I had the privilege to take part in #COP28UAE in Dubai. The world was focused on doing the right thing, progressing on key elements of the negotiations between parties. Personally, I also saw it as positive that industry leaders came together to drive forward decarbonization efforts and set targets across all sectors. Carbon capture, utilization and storage is now an integrated part of these efforts, especially targeting hard-to-abate sectors and energy production where other carbon reduction paths are difficult. In Aker Carbon Capture, we continue to promote bold innovation. I am proud that our technology engineering teams have launched a new line of large modular plants, the Just Catch 400 series as well as an even more effective version of our most popular plant, the Just Catch 100 (gen 3). Together with our Big Catch license- and key equipment offering, we now cover most medium and large sizes of capture plants for industrial emitters in Europe and North America. If you are curious about new Just Catch 400™ or other of our developments, feel free to visit our official ACC blog: https://lnkd.in/dTCZJSdA At this time I wish to show gratitude to you and send my very best wishes to you and your family for a healthy, happy and prosperous 2024.

I have just had my 3 year anniversary at Ørsted - time flies fast! I had the pleasure of joining during Covid (you may recall the isolation period), and it took 4 Months before I met anyone physically in our offices - very weird time indeed. Since then we have had hyper inflation, steep increase of interest rates, an energy crisis - and announcements of large political ambitions for the green transition. I, together with my good colleagues, have had the pleasure maneuvering through this stormy environment - and fortunately we are sailing into more still water where inflation is (almost) normalized, material prices declining etc. - but that just means that there are new challenges ahead, and the industry is to adapt to the new realities. 3 years with Ørsted represents 10% of the time I have worked in the wind industry as I have 30 years anniversary this June 1st. That is hard to believe, and perhaps even harder to imagine the journey the industry has taken from back then where the largest WTG where a 400kW onshore WTG up until to today where we see 14-15 MW WTG´s Offshore. The turbulent times recently is however not something new, it has regularly been part of the journey, and there will be more to come - but the wind industry will prevail and overcome as always - I look forward to see where the wind takes us next.

Yesterday was the first day of my 26th year at Fortum and its predecessors (yes, I know LinkedIn said 21 a few weeks ago…). This of course makes one ponder over life choices, and what your drivers are. I would say that there are four in my case. Not all have been equally important at all times, but they have all been there throughout my career. 1. Sustainability. In 1995 when I left university and started working, I was finalizing my Master’s thesis in City Planning for Sustainable societies. We were just two - three handfuls of engineers in Sweden that had taken M.Sc. degrees specifically aimed at sustainability topics. Baked into others, a bit more, but you get the picture. Sustainability was a biologist’s topic back then. When I came to Stockholm MFO on the first of February 1999, I started working with sustainability criteria in public procurement, and since then, sustainability has been a part of every position I have held. Fortum has had this on the agenda the whole time. 2. Work-life balance. This one has gone from good to bad and back in an oscillating manner over the years. Fortum has, though, offered the possibility to, in periods, prioritise for example family when this has been necessary. Working 80% during ten years to be able to support better when our kids were small is just an example. Now, most Nordic companies wouldn’t question that, but in 2002, when I started my part-time stint, it was certainly not a given. 3. The urge to gain new learnings. Fortum as a company has promoted job rotation. I’ve been given, and taken, the possibilites to do so many times over, and have done many different things over the years. I’ve worked for or with more or less the whole value chain in the hydro power, including trading, I’ve been in IT and process development, I’ve done internal auditing, innovation, and had the priviledge to start and build up the Hydrogen (now Power 2 X) business area from scratch. And this isn’t all. I learn new things every day! 4. Being able and allowed to influence. Wherever I am, I want to be able to influence where the company goes in the field I currently work. I’ve been fortunate to actually have that possibility in most of the positions I’ve held. And, it has been very clear that when that is lacking, I lose a lot of motivation. I think Fortum has, over the years, been pretty good at finding fittting positions for our people, and if there is a mismatch, in the end a new position has often been found that fits, instead of having people move out from the company. As a last point, I’d like to give a shout out to a few colleagues that have been special over the years, for different reasons. Thanks Kent Andersson, Mikael Waller, Göran Hult, Birgitta Adell, Kent Pettersson, Markku Orvall, Antero Heikkilä, Hannu Helminen, Jukka Huovinen, Johan Renström, Heli Antila, Mervi Hynönen, Sebastian Johansen and Ninad Mutatkar. And, thanks Fortum for the token of recogniton! This is what it now looks like!

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