Global Energy Transformation Institute (GETI) » politics http://www.getinstitute.com Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:02:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Politicians need to find their role http://www.getinstitute.com/uncategorized/politicians-need-to-find-their-role/ http://www.getinstitute.com/uncategorized/politicians-need-to-find-their-role/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:33:50 +0000 Mats http://74.220.219.68/~getinsti/site/?p=100 Companies in energy related industries try to do as much as they can to drive energy systems transformation forward. This is true about Volvo, ABB, GE and many other companies.

The CEO of Volvo, Leif Johansson, has repeatedly in information material from Volvo declared that there is a need for political agreements between nations about the future fuels and technologies of the transportation sector. This is necessary in order for companies to start making large scale investments in new technologies for renewable fuels.

I have repeatedly here and in Global Energy Transformation, recounted the conclusion of Professor Ruttan that government investments are necessary to develop new general purpose technologies.

http://www.csbsju.edu/clemens/images/HistoricallySpeaking-Issues%20merged%201%2016%2007_2_.pdf

Politicians need to understand their role and start to make the necessary decisions.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 by Mats Larsson

]]> http://www.getinstitute.com/uncategorized/politicians-need-to-find-their-role/feed/ 0 This could not be politics http://www.getinstitute.com/uncategorized/this-could-not-be-politics/ http://www.getinstitute.com/uncategorized/this-could-not-be-politics/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:27:18 +0000 Mats http://74.220.219.68/~getinsti/site/?p=29 Saturday, June 13, 2009 by Mats Larsson
GET Institute is not affiliated to any political party, nation state or corporation. The ideas presented in GET are not based on any existing political ideology. Rather, it is an amalgam (necessary at this point I believe) of existing ideas and ideologies. There is currently, that I know of, no political party or organization (except GET Institute) that argues in favor of change management for large scale change in the energy sector. GET Institute is not financed by any political party, organization or company. This could not be politics! In fact, we have no money, not even a bank account!
For people who like the ideas and who would like to support GET Institute, we will develop a way of doing this. We would like GET Institute to become a force in the global transformation of energy systems. It will be an organization that will be easy to support and work together with. We have no hidden agenda.
At this point, there is substantial room for the application of relatively basic principles of change management in the energy sector. This is not about rocket science, it is about applying experiences and principles that have been developed in other areas, together with some common sense, in the energy sector.
Below you find a link to a randomly selected web page from a consulting company that presents its views on change management:
http://home.att.net/~nickols/change.htm

GET Institute is not affiliated to any political party, nation state or corporation. The ideas presented in GET are not based on any existing political ideology. Rather, it is an amalgam (necessary at this point I believe) of existing ideas and ideologies. There is currently, that I know of, no political party or organization (except GET Institute) that argues in favor of change management for large scale change in the energy sector. GET Institute is not financed by any political party, organization or company. This could not be politics! In fact, we have no money, not even a bank account!

For people who like the ideas and who would like to support GET Institute, we will develop a way of doing this. We would like GET Institute to become a force in the global transformation of energy systems. It will be an organization that will be easy to support and work together with. We have no hidden agenda.

At this point, there is substantial room for the application of relatively basic principles of change management in the energy sector. This is not about rocket science, it is about applying experiences and principles that have been developed in other areas, together with some common sense, in the energy sector.

Below you find a link to a randomly selected web page from a consulting company that presents its views on change management:

http://home.att.net/~nickols/change.htm

Saturday, June 13, 2009 by Mats Larsson

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