The Risk Circuit
The Risk Circuit
Podcast Description
Welcome to The Risk Circuit – a WTW podcast delivering the latest insights into risk trends and challenges across the natural resources industry, to help you drive change. With perspectives from voices across all key natural resources sectors, you can make decisions with confidence and clarity. Keep your finger on the pulse. Get ahead in a rapidly evolving industry. Discover a smarter way to risk.
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The podcast covers a range of topics including liability energy market updates, downstream and upstream energy trends, and factors influencing market conditions such as social inflation and liability limit adequacy. Specific episodes have included discussions on the three-speed market and competitive pressures impacting rates in the energy sector, providing professionals with valuable insights for informed decision-making.

Welcome to The Risk Circuit – a WTW podcast delivering the latest insights into risk trends and challenges across the natural resources industry, to help you drive change. With perspectives from voices across all key natural resources sectors, you can make decisions with confidence and clarity. Keep your finger on the pulse. Get ahead in a rapidly evolving industry. Discover a smarter way to risk.
In this episode, Alice Harrison is joined by Simran Minhas and Oliver Warren to discuss the growing demand for electricity amid varying levels of political commitment to decarbonization. It’s a complex time that is driving significant developments in both renewables and conventional power, the energy transition is creating synergies between these sectors, but intrinsic challenges still persist.
The conversation delves into Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), the necessity of balancing the grid, and the large-scale deployment of solar and onshore wind. They also explore the impact of data centers and the AI revolution on energy demand, the ongoing role of coal, and the importance of conventional power sources to ensure reliability when renewable sources are not available. Listen now to find out more.

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