Greg Jackson

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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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than there ever used to be.
Um, and by the way, it goes geographically as well.
Cause you know, in the old days, you've got a coal power station in a particular county.
Whenever you want electricity in that county, you fire it up.
Whereas in today's world, it might be windy in one part of the country, not another.
It might be sunny in one time in one part and so on.
And we've got to handle that much more dynamic backend.
But actually this thing was my mom, right?
It was a cold winter's evening.
And National Grid in the UK, who balanced the system, were going to be firing up very, very expensive diesel generators in order to meet the high level of demand on a cold winter's evening.
And I thought, you know, most of that usage at the peak time
is for things like cooking.
Everyone's putting their oven on at the same time.
Very big consumer.
And then they're putting their dishwashers on straight after they've done their cooking.
They've got their hot water going for... Right, for the shower and everything else.
Everything, right?
And I thought there's no signal to tell people that, you know, they could benefit if they shifted their time.
So nobody bothers shifting their time.
And I thought, if I said to my mom...
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