Sam Hollister

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442 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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Talking New Energy · 247. What’s next for EVs, flexibility and heat? What 200+ conversations reveal · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think that's probably, in my own reflections over the last 10 years, where I think I've definitely seen progress.

I've got a heat pump.

So lacking momentum after the fourth webpage.

I'm not quite sure that's what they've done.

Good technical idea, but customer journey needs some work.

Just thinking about that, since you started hosting, the transition has moved incredibly quickly, particularly over the last five or six years.

Battery deployment, renewables, heat pumps, perhaps in the UK less, but it's definitely on an upward trajectory, just not quite as fast as many would hope.

We've also had a number of external shocks in mainly affordability shocks with Russia, Ukraine, but also this year with the Iran and Middle East crisis.

I guess just getting your kind of reflections over that last seven years you mentioned, did you think that we would get this far by, what, 2026?

And I guess, do you think you would get this far this fast?

And kind of any reflections on that sort of journey?

Taking then those in turn of where things have probably exceeded your expectations in kind of your bears and grid scale renewables, is there anything that you've identified as that turning point or any lessons that we can take, or perhaps any other listeners from outside of the GB that are at the beginning of that journey that's really a key factor in driving the UK forward on that?

I think it's getting the rules of the game right.

We're going to turn the tables on you, John.

I want you to think about that demand side and I want you to think about your talking new energy crystal ball that you've made many guests peer into and think five years out.

I want you to do the same and think five years out into the crystal ball and think about the demand side in GB.

What does that future energy system look like to you?

Let's go for 2032, right?

Where are we sitting on a demand side progress at that point?

From an electric vehicle perspective,

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