An Interview with Bryony Worthington

“For a long time, we've been talking about the transition in terms of: Switch off coal-power assets and the asset owners will just go away.

But they're not going away. They're still here. They've been here for decades, and they're going to be here for decades more unless we engage them in a conversation.

For me, asset owners are the big piece of the jigsaw puzzle that we need to engage with. Repowering turns a coal asset owner into someone who feels like they have a future, who can contribute to this transition, by giving them technologies they can integrate into their plants to pull down the coal burn and clean up their operations. Reusing assets, including the transport infrastructure, the grid infrastructure, the licensing, the workforce is a good message”

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‍Baroness Bryony Worthington is the Founder and Adviser to the Repower Initiative.

At the Repower World Summit 2025 in Katowice, Poland, she gave an interview exploring her thoughts on repowering, how it can help us transition to clean energy faster, and how it addresses what to do about existing coal infrastructure.