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Good morning, everyone, and thank you for being with us. We're here today with Michael Cembalest, J.P. Morgan's chair of Market and Investment Strategy, to talk about his current market energy paper, "Electravision." It's an extraordinary opportunity to be with one of the great researchers and holders of the lamp of truth in our industry.

You're welcome. Sorry for the late start. I had one of those New York mornings with a subway derailment and all sorts of other things. For everybody out there that doesn't live in New York, you should be thankful.

So this is the 14th annual energy market paper. For those in our audience who may not know the paper and be familiar with the body of work, could you just introduce the idea of how you came upon doing it, what its history has been, and what's involved in putting it together?

Sure. Let's see. I started writing it, as you mentioned 14, 15 years ago. And I just noticed that a lot of our clients were either under-informed or unaware of the energy ecosystem. And I would go to places where very sophisticated and smart people in their own industries would say things like, well, let's just shut off all the coal plants tomorrow and market forces, like they do in the tech sector, will come up with some other solution.

And there was there was a lot of projections about the energy transition that I felt were really not founded in reality, but I didn't understand the reality, either. I just knew enough to know that that what they were saying probably didn't make any sense.

So I decided to educate myself, and I developed a relationship with Vaclav Smil, who's one of the world's preeminent energy scientists, authors, speakers, whatever. And for 12 years or so, he was our technical advisor on this paper. He's retired now. He's 80 years old.

But I made annual pilgrimages to Manitoba, where he and I would walk through the various things I was working on. And it's one of those things where he forced me to learn how to fish instead of giving me the fish. And so for the last few years, I've basically done the bulk of the work on my own.

And it takes about three or four months worth of research to kind of cobble the whole thing together, because things are constantly changing. There's new regulations. There's new incentives. There's new inventions. There's new technology. And so every year, I spend about three, four months aggregating the topics and the discussions. And then, of course, each of the various sections is farmed out to different technical experts in the industry just to make sure I've got all my facts right.

And so certainly, there are substantive and technical changes over time, but there are also constants over time, human behavior being a huge one, political realities being another, physical realities being a third. And as you said, there are an awful lot of well-meaning people in the world who want to see an outcome that's meritorious, but they don't understand the complexity, the reality of the barriers to accomplishment of that change.

And I think there's some old bromide about, for every complex and really challenging, knotty problem, there's a simple, elegant, and completely wrong solution that's embraced by many. And I think this is a good example of an area where that's true.

That's a good question, because sometimes it pays to step back and say, well, what were we thinking, and how have things evolved versus what we thought? Some parts of the transition have accelerated more quickly than we thought, others much more slowly and some of them, kind of slowly, as we expected. So an example of each one of those.

The collapse in polysilicon prices due to Chinese production and subsidies has caused the installation cost of solar power to collapse much more quickly than any learning curve would have anticipated, and global installations are rising much more quickly than all the forecasts. So on the positive side, you have a really rapid deployment cycle of solar power.

Now. The average capacity factor of solar panels is somewhere between 20% and 22%, even in sunny places. So there's a difference between capacity and generation, and solar is a good example of that. But solar has generally outstripped most projections in terms of the speed. And going forward, in most countries, except for maybe Northern Europe, solar installations are expected to substantially outpace wind. So that's happened much more quickly.

What hasn't budged at all, despite all of the projections that it would, is electrification of industrial energy use. So if you put energy use into four simple buckets, households, office buildings, transportation, and industrial production, the last one, industrial markets use much more energy than the other ones. And that's rubber, cement, plastics, ammonia, fertilizer, steel, glass. That's where the bulk of the energy is used in almost all modern societies.

And the share of total industrial sector energy that comes from electrification has been stuck at around 12% for the last 30 years. It hasn't budged. And if you can't electrify it, it's very hard to decarbonize it. If you can electrify it, that means that if you add more wind and solar to the grid, you're essentially decarbonizing something. But if you can't make steel with electricity and you have to use a blast furnace, it's much, much harder to decarbonize.

Those two realities. So on the one hand, the grid we have is getting greener at a quicker pace, but we're not using the grid for more things than we used to. The grid is still mostly being used for air conditioning and all the stuff in this studio, lighting, air conditioning, computers, that kind of stuff. Electricity is not really used in any meaningful way in transportation yet, in industrial production at all, and is used modestly in home heating.

So given the weight of industrial production consumption and energy, that seems a key point of focus, I would think, of two issues there. First of all, if you're an operating business and you have a lot of capital plant dedicated to conventional energy sources for the process heating and other things you're doing, replacing that with electric alternatives is a capital expenditure issue, where you're going to change the way you depreciate your existing equipment. And you're going to spend more capital in a big way, potentially sooner than you otherwise would have. So there are financial and margin implications on the one side of it.

Too many of us are too tied in mentally to our iPhone cycles where we throw them out after a couple of years. They become obsolete. Apple and Google don't support the iOS and android older phones, and so we replace them.

In the rest of the fixed investment economy, things aren't discarded quite so quickly. Cars last for 12 to 15 years. The boilers and furnaces in homes and office buildings for heating can last 20 to 30 years, and steel plants can last 40 to 50 years. So I think sometimes people misunderstand the fact that even when there's economic incentives on the margin to change, you won't do it until you've exhausted the useful life of the existing equipment you're talking about, unless the government wants to pay you an exorbitant subsidy to change earlier.

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