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[Interview] ‘Some of the resistance comes from people fearing they’ll end up without a job,’ says industry expert on Europe’s slow electrification

[Interview] ‘Some of the resistance comes from people fearing they’ll end up without a job,’ says industry expert on Europe’s slow electrification
EUobserver

According to Devan Pillay of Schneider Electric, it's not just grids and prices holding electrification back. It's also change-resistant engineers of the older generation that are running plants today. "Their attitude is: if it works, let's leave it."

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