Il WEC Inside è una pubblicazione mensile del World Energy Council (WEC) contenente interviste a rappresentanti del WEC e dei Comitati Nazionali, overview e aggiornamenti sulle attività recenti e future del WEC in tutto il mondo e, approfondimenti sulle ultime news in ambito energetico. La versione integrale del WEC Inside è disponibile nell'area Servizi Informativi, riservata ai soli Associati, sul sito del WEC Italia.

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WEC Inside
July 2014
Welcome to WEC Inside, your exclusive
briefing from your WEC network
News
LatAm experts wanted for WEC
Scenarios workshop
The WEC’s World Energy Scenarios team will be
hosting a workshop in the Latin America and Carib-
bean region this month. Energy strategists and
other decision-makers from the region are encour-
aged to attend.
The regional Scenarios workshop, hosted by
CACME, the WEC Argentinian committee, will be
held in Buenos Aires on 28 July. At the workshop
regional experts will inject their on-the-ground
expertise of regional energy issues – with discus-
sion hinged around the findings of the latest World
Energy Issues Monitor – and interrogate the plausi-
bility of broad scenarios storylines. On the follow-
ing two days, members of the WEC Scenarios
study group will hold in-depth discussions to ex-
plore the scenarios storylines based on the region-
al workshop discussion. Gerald Davis, Executive
Chair, and Karl Rose, Senior Director of the study,
will lead discussions at both the workshop and
study group meeting.
This workshop presents an opportunity to test
and explore how the global insights, as presented
in the 2013 Scenarios report, manifest in the re-
gion. The 2013 report finds that for the LAC re-
gion, even in the best case the growth of energy
supply will still be insufficient to meet the rising
energy demand associated with economic growth.
The study sees total primary energy supply to grow
by between 2.3 and 3.8 times, while meeting ener-
gy demand in electricity alone will require at least
US$1.33 trillion of investment. (See Inside Insight,
page 4.)
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WEC Inside: your
exclusive update from
the WEC network
In response to readers’ feedback, we have made
some changes to how we communicate with our
members via WEC Inside.
From now on, WEC Inside will focus on show-
casing WEC members’ news and achievements,
serving as an internal platform for knowledge
sharing and collaboration.
Energy news and analysis will instead be cov-
ered in a new e-magazine that the WEC has just
launched earlier this month: World Energy Fo-
cus. More on this overleaf.
With the World Energy Focus as an enhanced
monthly offering of the WEC, WEC Inside will be
published once a month only, in the middle of
the month.
But other things will remain the same. WEC
Inside will remain exclusive to WEC members.
We continue to welcome your news and feed-
back. And we continue to encourage you to
share it more widely among your members.
Keep on reading and sharing.
Monique Tsang
Editor, WEC Inside
tsang@worldenergy.org
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These initial explorative results will provide the
basis and framework for a further regional deep-
dive, which would be complemented by quantita-
tive modelling by project partner, the Paul Scherrer
Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. The Scenarios team
will present initial findings during the week of the
WEC Executive Assembly in Cartagena, Colombia,
this October.
WEC members are encouraged not only to
attend but also to invite colleagues who are ex-
perts in the field. Contact Zulandi van der
Westhuizen (westhuizen@worldenergy.org) and
Tom Tirins (tirins@worldenergy.org) for more info.
Catch up on the 2013 findings for the Latin
America and Caribbean region on: http://bit.ly/
QyhSSD. Also available in Spanish and
Portuguese. ■
Member committee news
Ecuador
joins WEC
Ecuador has joined the WEC as its newest
member committee.
The new committee is hosted at the Ministry of
Electricity and Renewable Energy. It is chaired by
Esteban Albornoz Vintimilla, Minister of Electricity
and Energy, while Gabriel Arguello, Executive Di-
rector of the National Centre of Energy Control,
serves as Secretary.
The newest addition of Ecuador brings the num-
ber of WEC national members in the LAC region to
9 and the total number of WEC member committees
to 93.
Bolivia puts on major energy
congress
Where is the gas industry moving towards? What is
the future of petroleum? And what are the new
technologies driving the energy sector? These are
some of the issues to be discussed at Bolivia Gas &
Energía on 20–21 August 2014 in Santa Cruz, and
WEC members are invited to attend.
The congress has been held every year since
2008 by the Bolivian Chamber of Hydrocarbons and
Energy (CBHE), the WEC Bolivian national commit-
tee. It is the largest event of its type in Bolivia.
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia (pictured below),
spoke at last year’s event.
The 2014 event will be held under the theme
“Energy globalisation: the future of petroleum, gas
and other energies”. It will look at the following
topics: global trends in petroleum and gas, nuclear,
Alternative fuels:
your views
Are consumers aware of alternatives to traditional
fossil-based transport and fuels? If so, would they
pay for ‘greener’ alternatives? What role should
government play in shaping our attitudes?
Our Future Energy Leaders (FELs) are conduct-
ing a study on consumer preferences to alterna-
tive fuels, highlighting implications for future mar-
kets, business models and urban design, inform-
ing decision-makers and investors across indus-
try and government.
Please take 5 minutes to share your thoughts on
alternative transport fuels from the consumer
perspective. Complete the survey, available in
English, Spanish, Portugese, French, and
Russian, on: http://bit.ly/1gKWlC7. ■
WEC will host a regional workshop on Latin America
and the Caribbean in Buenos Aires courtesy of
CACME, the WEC Argentinian committee