steelTalks is a monthly series on topics of interest to the global steel community. The lectures are presented in a webinar format with a guest lecturer. In this steelTalk, Dr Barış Bekir Çiftçi, Director of Industry Analysis at the World Steel Association (worldsteel), will examine global energy supply, demand and cost trajectories, the structural bottlenecks affecting power availability, and emerging solutions to support industrial decarbonisation.