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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But all they have to do is when they get high, well, first of all, when they get their car, they pair it with us.
So they use the Cars app to pair it with Octopus.
And that enables us to control when the car's charging.
They set some very basic preferences, like a typical default would be, I want 90% battery at 7 a.m.
Have you been in my preferences?
Because that's where I am.
Yeah.
There you go.
I think it's the default.
It might be 80%.
Anyways, and then all they do is plug in when they get home and we'll decide exactly when it charges.
They get the charge they want.
But by us being able to control it automatically, it's not only grabbing electricity at the cheapest times, typically when it's windy and sunny, but it's also able to, for example, help balance the grid, help reduce the risk of the exact issues we've just been talking about.
And in return, they get very cheap driving.
So the scale of this is mad.
In three years, we've gone from zero to 1.7 gigawatts.
Now, that's the equivalent of nearly two mid-sized nuclear power stations.
For free, right?
Because basically, this is a byproduct of the car.
That's when cars, EVs, are only 5% of the fleet in the UK.
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