Analyst: Choose the 'Radical Middle' on Energy Transition

October 10, 2025--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--"Beware the tyranny of one right way" to manage the energy transition, said Scott Tinker, the chief executive officer of Tinker Energy Associates and the chairman of Switch Energy Alliance. Tinker was speaking at this week's Ninth Annual Energy Summit in Houston, co-hosted by Baker Botts LLP and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute. Tinker sees the energy transition as a three-legged stool. "We want it affordable. We want it reliable, and we want it clean. We want it all. The problem is ... everything has to sum to 100%. You want 100% clean, you don't get much of anything else."