In this episode recorded at the Open Sustainability Policy Summit in Washington, DC, Katie Soroye, VP of Granular Procurement Solutions at LevelTen Energy, focuses on LevelTen Energy’s role in accelerating the clean energy transition, particularly through the development of a marketplace for granular procurement solutions. Soroye also emphasizes the importance of decarbonizing the grid at scale and highlights the challenges and opportunities in achieving this goal.

The discussion also explores the impact of policy and government incentives, and the significance of collaboration between public and private sectors in driving climate action.

Accelerating clean energy transition through granular procurement solutions

• Soroye discusses LevelTen Energy’s efforts to accelerate clean energy transition, particularly by developing a marketplace for power purchase agreements and now, granular procurement solutions.
• LevelTen Energy aims to decarbonize the grid at scale through corporate procurement goals, despite gaps in data and infrastructure.
• LevelTen Energy is launching a marketplace for trading granular certificates in partnership with the Intercontinental Exchange, aiming to address existing gaps and accelerate clean energy adoption.
• Soroye highlights the importance of policy and government incentives, such as the 45V proposed rulemaking for hydrogen production tax credits, in driving demand and compliance in the clean energy sector.

Climate action, energy transition, and collaboration

• Soroye emphasizes the need for collective action on climate change, highlighting the importance of collaboration between public and private sectors.
• Soroye also discusses the potential of granular certificates to support the transition to more granular accounting and the need to future-proof existing legacy systems.
• LF Energy’s role: Soroye notes that LF Energy can play a catalyst role in bringing together stakeholders from policy, technology, and business to address common challenges and accelerate climate action.
• Soroye also reflects on the complexity of the systems involved in clean energy transitions and states that it’s crucial to adopt a systems-oriented perspective to successfully achieve our policy goals.

Guest: Katie Soroye (LinkedIn)
Organizations: LevelTen Energy | LF Energy (Twitter)
Show: State of Energy 

This summary was written by Monika Chauhan.