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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Then it kind of merged with the academic world, where you could use it to join education institutions in higher education for research purposes.
But when the private sector got hold of that technology, they were able to say, here's how we can use it to drive down costs, to create new products and services, to kind of revolutionize many parts of the commercial world.
And it's very similar to this, which is, look, policymakers create the subsidiary regimes and the policy regimes
that first created the innovations that enabled us to get solar and wind and battery to anything like a kind of realistic, scalable solution.
But now, in the hands of the private sector, we're able to innovate stuff that is better for consumers.
And I don't in any way
kind of begrudge the messaging around climate because that's what got us here now.
But what has gifted us are innovations that can transform one of the most important sectors of our economy.
Now, one thing I will say, though, is that one of the big differences between the internet and energy is the internet didn't have to really fight an opposition.
There wasn't a sort of pre-existing thing that was trying to defend its turf.
Now, you may have had that in Little Bits, for example.
By the way, it's not just the oil industry.
You know, the electricity industry and utilities, in many countries, they're owned by or managed by governments, or the monopolies are handled by governments.
And even when you've got a private competitive system, a lot of them grew out of government.
So they've got these 100-year relationships with governments, and governments run the rules.
Like, you know, the rules of a grid are typically set by a government.
which means the core strength of most energy companies is lobbying.
Right.
Which means when change comes along, when it works for them, by the way, they lobby very hard for it.
Where it's not in the interest of the existing solutions or providers, they lobby very, very hard against it.
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