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Energy Salon XXI: Urban Power Series Last night at Café Museum in Vienna, Founder Olha Bosak opened the new Energy Salon...
20/11/2025

Energy Salon XXI: Urban Power Series

Last night at Café Museum in Vienna, Founder Olha Bosak opened the new Energy Salon XXI: Urban Power Series with insights on Europe’s shifting energy landscape and the role of cities.

She reflected on the origins of Energy Salon XXI, created in Ukraine as a platform for open, cross-sector dialogue, and relaunched last year in Vienna while she chaired the energy panel “Turning Energy Challenges into Energy Opportunities” at the National Bank of Austria.

“Today, I am especially pleased to bring this initiative to Café Museum, where my energy-themed paintings are on display. Energy Salon XXI has now moved from Kyiv — a global symbol of energy resilience — to Vienna, a city recognised for its quality of life, systems thinking, and responsible urban governance.”

The Era of Electricity is accelerating, but grids and investment flows are not keeping pace. Electrification is accelerating across AI, data centres, mobility, heating, and industry. Demand is rising faster than infrastructure, and transmission remains the critical bottleneck. Global investments in generation now near USD 1 trillion annually — yet grid investments lag far behind, widening the gap and slowing decarbonization.

Cities are electrifying rapidly, digital infrastructure is scaling, and mobility and heating are shifting to electricity — yet grids are struggling to keep up. This gap represents both the challenge and the opportunity ahead.

Olha Bosak highlighted the need to align national, regional, and urban strategies, noting that cities are where ambition meets implementation.

“This is why the Energy Salon XXI: Urban Power Series matters — it brings these layers together at eye level, across disciplines, in one room.”

The evening concluded with a dialogue around key questions: where to invest first, how to collaborate across sectors, and which partnerships are still missing.

In the last days of this year, I was delighted to chair the panel discussion at the National Bank of Austria for repre...
30/12/2024

In the last days of this year, I was delighted to chair the panel discussion at the National Bank of Austria for representatives of central banks from all over the world, contributing to the success of the European System of Central Banks Emerging Markets Workshop.

I am very glad that I had the opportunity – for which I am grateful to the Oesterreichische Nationalbank – to implement in Vienna my Energy Salon XXI initiative, which I launched in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.

Being the energy business leader I use my art side hustle to encourage audiences to participate in discussions of energy challenges we are facing, and think about what role each of us can play when it comes to dealing with those challenges. The main feature of the launching of Energy Salon XXI in Kyiv was my Energy Matters art exhibition. I used it as a tool for creating a friendly informal atmosphere for the open discussion of complex issues. My energy art series encourages everyone to think about our decisions regarding sources of energy we prefer, quantity of energy we use, and quality of energy we choose.

I was happy I could have with me at the National Bank of Austria my paintings dedicated to the topic of renewable energy and one painting dedicated to the topic of energy resilience of Kyiv, Ukraine in this difficult time.

Turning Energy Challenges into Energy Opportunities was the title of the discussion. Where should funds come from for building a portfolio of assets to develop over clean energy across a range of EU and non-EU markets in Europe? Where shall the financing for building out utility scale projects in emerging markets come from? What additional financial efforts should be made to make the most of Europe’s renewable energy capacity? What is the role of the financial system in this respect? Do central banks have a role and if yes, which role should they assume?

These are the questions we discussed with speakers of the panel discussion Hendrik Engelmann-Pilger from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Peter Zeniewski from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Energy Salon XXI

Energy Salon XXI is a cross-sector network that serves as a bridge between international investors and local decision makers, business partners, customers, other external parties. The idea is to establish a platform for promotion of benefits of international energy companies through interaction, engagement and dialogue with key stakeholders. Energy Salon XXI is supposed to help investors to establish and develop new business opportunities, as well as bring their message across with high impact.

The main goal of the 1st Energy Salon XXI is to focus the attention of government, parliament, NGOs, local communities, and financial institutions on those issues that are crucial for the development of Norwegian businesses in Ukraine (that are among the largest renewable energy investors in the industry).

The main feature of the 1st Energy Salon XXI is the use of my art exhibition devoted to energy topics as a tool for creating a friendly informal atmosphere for the open discussion of complex issues. My art collection Energy Matters is encouraging everyone to think about our decisions regarding sources of energy we prefer, quantity of energy we use, and quality of energy we choose.