Greg Jackson
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647 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 20 Sep
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And that means that people have got their own solar panels, their own batteries, can help balance the grid.
And cars are going to be doing that as well.
So you're going to end up with a system that looks a lot more like the internet, where everything is automatically improving, just like in the internet improves your bandwidth, here it'll be improving your energy cost, and prices are going to come down.
And by the way,
It brings prices down even for those people who don't have the solar panels and the batteries or the electric cars because it makes the whole system more efficient for everybody.
As we build out more and more renewables on the grid,
the underlying electricity systems much more volatile.
And that means that people have got their own solar panels, their own batteries, can help balance the grid.
And cars are going to be doing that as well.
So you're going to end up with a system that looks a lot more like the internet, where everything is automatically improving.
Just like in the internet improves your bandwidth, here it'll be improving your energy cost, and prices are going to come down.
And by the way,
It brings prices down even for those people who don't have the solar panels and batteries or the electric cars because it makes the whole system more efficient for everybody.
The Rest Is Money · 290. Can Burnham’s ‘business friendly socialism’ grow the economy? · 24 Jun 2026
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When we built Octopus, we also built a software platform, like an operating system, like iOS or Android on your phone, to enable energy companies, utilities, starting with Octopus, but frankly, anyone in the world,
to be much more efficient, to use vast amounts of data, to be able to become more innovative, and to serve their customers better.
That piece of software is cracking.
We've used it not only for Octopus, but companies in the UK like EDF and Eon have used it to improve their business too.
But you know what, it turns out over time companies realised that they were licensing from a competitor.
And so we've had to spin it off so it can reach its full potential.
First of all, we never know what's going to happen to the future price of energy.
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