Moroo Shino is the president and CEO of Marubeni Asian Power, an independent power producer in Japan.
Shino discusses the investments his company is making to accelerate the world s energy transition.
This article is part of Changemakers Playbook, a series that looks at innovation across different industries.
Japanese conglomerate Marubeni now has more than 100 years of innovation to look back on. Moroo Shino, president and CEO of Marubeni Asian Power, says that as a large independent power producer, it has a social responsibility to facilitate the energy transition and the development of new technology solutions such as hydrogen.
What sort of energy infrastructure investments do you think we need to achieve net-zero carbon emissions?
Very frustrated.
New research conducted by OnePoll reveals the source of their unhappiness, and while it s not likely what you d expect, you re likely to relate. Their collective frustration stems from the outdated technology they have to use at work to do their work. Most of the time, it slows productivity; other times, it brings productivity to a halt.
While we ve all been there flummoxed by one form of clunky tech or another, irritated with unintuitive software what s surprising is how seriously the surveyed employees take the issue. In fact, roughly 70% of them would be willing to take a pay cut in exchange for software and tech twice as good as what they currently use.
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Hydrogen plays an important role in combatting climate change but its production still has a way to go.
Industries must integrate new technologies into our energy systems and economies to achieve a zero-carbon future.
This article is part of Changemakers Playbook, a series that looks at innovation across different industries.
Hydrogen has a crucial role to play in decarbonization. How can we make it happen?
The race to net zero is on, and taking part is no longer optional, meaning we have no choice but to explore new technologies and integrate them into our energy systems and economies.
Getty Images What is the solution to the problem of traffic jams? a Turkish journalist asked Nick Cohn, senior product manager at TomTom, at the end of 2019. His response, We can t keep building extra lanes endlessly; that s not a long-term solution.
Then he adds, We need sustainable alternatives for transporting large groups of people, and we need to spread the traffic more.
The past year shows that these solutions do indeed work to combat congestion. In 2020, there was a 19% reduction in congestion worldwide, according to the new TomTom Traffic Index. In terms of mobility, 2020 has been one big experiment, says Gijs Peters, data scientist and traffic expert at TomTom.
By Mihai Vlad, vice president of machine learning, SDL, part of RWS Holdings plc
We entered 2021 with renewed hope vaccines on the horizon and a respite from the seemingly ever-long gloom of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions. In the absence of human-to-human contact, there s no denying that technology has helped bring us all closer together. But our reliance on technology has forever changed the way companies will need to engage with us.
In our predictions for 2021, we set out three key themes that we foresaw would underpin future success. These can be applied to how businesses operate in a post-pandemic environment to be agile in how they work and communicate with their customers and for companies to embrace intelligence by taking full advantage of the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.