How long will this energy crunch last?
PODCAST: With special guest John Kemp, senior energy analyst at Reuters
“Energy prices will keep rising until you get a production response, at which point it will tend to be an over-reaction, or you will start seeing demand destruction, or a response from policymakers — or you could get all three. This is creating the conditions for the subsequent cyclical downturn. Whether it’s in 2023 or 2024 is an open question.”
That’s a key quote from John Kemp, senior commodities and energy analyst at Thomson Reuters, speaking on the Energy Flux podcast on Monday evening.
Listen again to the full episode here (48 mins):
If you’re pressed for time, here are a few choice snippets:
“Energy market tightness could give way to another cyclical downturn as early as 2023” (1m 21s)
“EU governments are being coy about the true costs of the energy transition” (1m 52s)
“Is Russia’s opportunistic constraint of gas exports geopolitical or purely economic?” (2m 20s)
“China is struggling with the same energy policy challenges as US, EU” (2m 20s)
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