Greg Jackson
speaker
647 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 20 Sep
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It could go up or go down.
So I think when people try to do a really detailed payback calculation, the problem is you don't really know what the alternative is.
But I don't know many people who've regretted getting these technologies because the one thing, whenever you get them,
is it helps insulate against the volatility of the market prices.
And so as far as I can tell, the vast majority of people who've made that decision are happy with it.
First of all, we never know what's going to happen to the future price of energy.
It could go up or go down.
So I think when people try to do a really detailed payback calculation, the problem is you don't really know what the alternative is.
But I don't know many people who've regretted getting these technologies because the one thing, whenever you get them, is it helps insulate you against the volatility of the market prices.
And so as far as I can tell, the vast majority of people who've made that decision are happy with it.
There's a lot of people who quite rightly think we're naive if we don't understand the threats we face from China.
But it's equally naive not to understand that Chinese technologies...
can now transform so many industries.
And if we don't understand what they're doing and find ways to work with them, we're going to get left behind.
Look, the reality is it used to be about China stealing our secrets, but now their own investment in technologies means that solar panels are 400 times cheaper than they were 40 years ago.
Batteries for electric cars are 10 times cheaper than they were 12 years ago.
If we can find ways to work with this, we can bring costs down for British people, and that's got to be a good thing.
We're delighted to say that this year the rest is money is powered by Octopus Energy.
So we're joined by its founder and CEO, Greg Jackson.
Hiya, Greg.
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