Greg Jackson
speaker
647 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 20 Sep
Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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First of all, it's good that the government have recognised the importance of energy costs.
They took VAT off electricity and prior to that, by the way, some of the levies off electricity, which means that despite the underlying rising cost of energy at the moment, and our gas bills are going up with the next price cap,
electricity bills are actually staying roughly where they are during this price cap.
That's a good start.
But you can't paper over the cracks with these kind of tax changes forever.
Fundamentally, we need to drive down the cost of our electricity system.
There's a lot of ways of doing it.
We need to review the plans to build 100 billion pounds of new grid and networks because new technologies like super cheap batteries, flexible use of electric cars, all mean we might not need that expensive infrastructure and we can push the costs of electricity down.
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We wanted to make heat pumps that work that are designed for British homes, uh and um that are cheaper to run, cheaper to install, and actually cheaper for the hardware.
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And that's what we did.
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So uh for example, octopus created heat pumps that run at up to seventy degrees C, as hot as a gas boiler, so you don't necessarily need to worry about having, you know, excess insulation and changing your heating system.
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that are designed for British homes and that are cheaper to run, cheaper to install, and actually cheaper for the hardware.
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And that's what we did.
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So, for example, Octopus created heat pumps that run at up to 70 degrees C, as hot as a gas boiler, so you don't necessarily need to worry about having, you know, excess insulation and changing your heating system.
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