What happened
TÜSİAD convened the second instalment of its roundtable series linked to the COP31 process, with electrification as the central theme. The meeting took place on 11 September.
Fatih Özkadı, chair of TÜSİAD’s Environment and Net Zero Policies Working Group, delivered the opening remarks. Ebru Taşcıoğlu, head of Sustainability and Corporate Competencies at Enerjisa Energy, moderated the discussion.
Attendees included representatives from companies, think tanks and civil-society organisations. According to TÜSİAD, the agenda covered rising electricity demand, investment for electrification and the constraints affecting efforts to increase electrification levels.
The group also considered the respective requirements of the energy sector and sectors that consume energy at the point of use. TÜSİAD’s account identifies financing, technology, governance and the policy framework among the additional areas raised in the discussion.
Why it matters
The session placed electricity demand and investment questions alongside practical barriers to electrification. It also brought energy-sector and end-use-sector needs into the same discussion, with participants drawn from business, think tanks and civil society.
For sustainability and energy teams, the meeting highlights the issues TÜSİAD is placing within its COP31 agenda: the scale of electricity demand, the investment needed for electrification, and the obstacles that can affect implementation. The source does not announce a target, regulatory requirement, funding programme or other support measure.
The roundtable programme was created to complement TÜSİAD’s work across environmental, climate, economic, industrial and competitiveness topics. Its stated purpose is to address the climate crisis’s effects on business through a broad perspective.
What companies can consider next
Companies reviewing electrification plans can assess their own electricity-demand outlook, potential investment requirements and operational constraints against the themes considered at the session. They can also distinguish between issues within their operations and those involving energy-system needs, financing, technology, governance or policy conditions.
TÜSİAD has not published outcomes or commitments from this meeting in the supplied material. Readers seeking the organiser’s account should consult the linked TÜSİAD notice.
