EU Commission's President Ursula von der Leyen talks to media in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on February 1, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the Commission presents a Green Deal Industrial Plan to enhance the competitiveness of Europes net-zero industry and support the fast transition to climate neutrality. The Plan aims to provide a more supportive environment for the scaling up of the EUs manufacturing capacity for the net-zero technologies and products required to meet Europes ambitious climate targets. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
[Note: This story is also published at Forbes.com]
One aspect of this energy transition that makes it so complex, difficult to manage and near-impossible to keep on track comes in the disparate operating conditions that exist across nations. From regulation, to tax policy, to available subsidies, to natural resources, to sourcing talent, to supply chains, every one of the 193 nations on earth presents its own unique operating environment within which management and CEOs must work.
One such CEO is Lars Carlstrom, who leads startup ventures in the US and Italy after having led a previous venture in the UK. These new ventures, Statevolt in the US, Italvolt in Italy, seek to secure a share of the booming market in the manufacture of batteries for renewable energy storage and electric vehicles. It is a sector that appears to have almost unlimited growth potential, but one that also involves a high degree of risk and uncertainty in a constantly evolving and highly competitive economic and public policy environment.
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