Reskilling workforces, developing hydrogen and CCS vital to energy transition: Enel CEO

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The transition to a zero-carbon economy will hinge on governments successfully facilitating the shift of large sections of their workforces to new sectors, as well as a rapid acceleration of technology in renewable hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, Italian utility Enel’s CEO Francesco Starace said June 23. The bulk of the energy transition would be achieved by a massive increase in electrification of energy and transport systems using existing technology, Starace said at the Reuters Global Energy Transition conference. Such a transition would create jobs and economic growth, but would require a massive redistribution of large sectors of the global workforce to renewables. It would be essential for governments to facilitate this shift in jobs if net-zero targets are to be met in time, he said.