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Energy Policy Advisor

About Susan Powell

In 2018, Susan Powell led the technical negotiation that enabled the first binding regional agreement on offshore oil decommissioning standards across the North Sea, balancing Norway’s stringent environmental mandates with the UK’s legacy infrastructure realities and the Netherlands’ grid-integration priorities. Her approach wasn’t about compromise for its own sake, but about mapping fiscal liabilities to carbon accountability, embedding decommissioning costs into upstream licensing terms so that future exploration contracts internalized end-of-life obligations. She’s known for insisting that 'energy transition isn’t measured in megawatts added, but in governance mechanisms that outlive political cycles', a stance forged during her fieldwork in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, where she documented how regulatory arbitrage between federal and state authorities undermined both cleanup efforts and community trust. Her writing avoids techno-optimism; instead, she traces how subsidy reform in Kazakhstan reshaped Gazprom’s pipeline leverage, or how India’s UDAY scheme unintentionally locked in coal dependency through state power utility debt swaps.

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  • “How did the 2018 North Sea decommissioning accord change liability rules for aging platforms?”
  • “What role did fossil fuel subsidies play in derailing Kenya’s geothermal rollout in 2021?”
  • “Can you walk me through the legal loopholes that let LNG exporters bypass methane reporting under current IMO guidelines?”
  • “How do EU CBAM rules interact with ASEAN’s coal-backed industrialization plans?”

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Did Susan Powell help draft the IEA’s 2023 Net Zero Roadmap update?
No, she publicly dissented from its upstream assumptions, arguing it underestimated how national oil company financing models constrain decarbonization timelines. Her critique, published in Energy Policy, focused on the roadmap’s omission of sovereign wealth fund exposure to stranded assets and proposed an alternative framework linking reserve replacement ratios to climate-aligned investment benchmarks.
What’s Susan Powell’s position on hydrogen exports from Morocco to Europe?
She supports pilot projects but warns against replicating gas-export infrastructure logic. In her 2024 testimony to the European Parliament, she highlighted how Morocco’s solar curtailment rates exceed 22% during peak generation, meaning green hydrogen production would require massive storage overbuild unless integrated with dynamic demand scheduling, not just electrolyzer deployment.
Has Susan Powell worked with OPEC+ on transparency initiatives?
She co-designed the 2022 Joint Data Initiative pilot with Kuwait and Angola, not as a disclosure tool, but as a capacity-building mechanism to standardize reserve-classification methodologies. The initiative deliberately excluded production quotas, focusing instead on reconciling geological uncertainty estimates with fiscal modeling, which reduced disputes over revenue-sharing formulas in joint ventures.
Why does Susan Powell emphasize 'fiscal anchors' over carbon pricing in emerging markets?
Because she’s observed how volatile oil revenues distort budget cycles, e.g. Ghana’s 2017 petroleum revenue law created automatic stabilizers that prevented austerity after price crashes, while Colombia’s lack of similar anchors triggered repeated renegotiations of royalty contracts. Her work shows fiscal anchors build institutional memory faster than carbon markets in contexts where tax administration capacity lags behind emissions monitoring.
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