21E16100 - Energy Business and Innovation, Lecture, 19.4.2022-3.6.2022
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Personal Assignment 1 - Letter to the editor
Write a letter to the editor to a Technology & Economy area newspaper or a more generic audience newspaper. Your writing topic should be related to the energy transition and specifically to situations when acts and discourses of companies are not aligned. One example is the Fortum and Uniper case (75% owned subsidiary) in which Uniper will sue Netherlands (https://hiilivapaasuomi.fi/fortums-sustainability-claims-founder-as-german-subsidiary-uniper-evades-a-coal-phase-out/ or https://jmkorhonen.fi/2021/04/22/fortum-ja-teknisten-riskien-moraalikato/ ) for its coal exit law. You can write about the Fortum case or other similar cases with other energy companies.
- Search for relevant data regarding the topic as mentioned earlier. Official material (web pages/ reports / visions / marketing) vs acts that companies take in their operations (investments, news)
- Think of your position on the topic and state your opinion
- Grab the reader's attention
- Explain what the letter is about at the start
- Explain why the issue is important
- Keep it timely
- Give evidence for any praise or criticism
- Make it also clear what should be done
1-page word (/pdf). State what is your target magazine or newspaper.