Bonus Episode! Greg Jackson CEO of Octopus Energy Talks The Green Transition AND MORE!
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Robert is joined on stage at Everything Electric South by Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy. Their Sunday morning electric fireside chat, ‘How is Octopus delivering power to the people, why are electric vehicles a critical component, & how can we control the narrative?’, was a popular highlight of an already electrifying show! We hope you enjoy this discussion, where Robert and Greg delve into why EVs are the heroes of the energy transition, the increase of renewables and should we feel sorry for the fossil fuel companies?!..
0:00 Introduction
0:18 How did Octopus Energy grow so quickly?
1:35 Are EVs the hero of the energy transition?
7:43 China's energy transition
11:25 Is the transition to renewables ramping up?
16:27 Q&A
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Please welcome on to the stage Greg Jackson founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. |
| 0:15.0 | It feels to me so rapid the emergence of Octopus and what you're doing now. |
| 0:24.3 | It feels like it's happened in the last six months. |
| 0:26.0 | I know it hasn't. |
| 0:26.9 | Can you just give us a quick potted history |
| 0:30.4 | of how you got from when you first started. I think I met you very in the very |
| 0:34.8 | early days to how to where you are now because it's just astronomical really. |
| 0:38.8 | It's funny you say that because I'm actually terrified. We're nearly nine years old. |
| 0:42.4 | Right. And you know you go so quickly from feeling like |
| 0:47.2 | Wow, I can't believe done so much so fast. Yeah. To terrified that you know if it's all going to slow down and so thank you for the |
| 0:57.3 | remind it feels quick to you but I've also got to say I think the thing |
| 1:01.0 | behind us is very similar to the thing behind everything |
| 1:04.0 | Electra and what you've done which was we spotted the inevitable energy |
| 1:10.9 | transition yeah and because we started with no legacy, we were able to just get fully into what is going to take to build a global transition that's cheaper and faster than anyone recognizes. |
| 1:22.0 | Because if you looked at the cost of wind, the cost of solar... that's cheaper and faster than anyone recognises. |
| 1:22.6 | Because if you looked at the cost of wind, the cost of solar, |
| 1:25.6 | the cost of batteries is falling 13% per year. |
| 1:28.9 | If you look at all of that, it is inevitable this is going to win. |
| 1:32.3 | So we just started backing it at the right time. |
| 1:34.6 | Right and I mean that and have you seen that you know a shift in in public opinion |
| 1:40.8 | slash acceptance of what you're proposing. |
| 1:43.9 | Because I mean certainly when I first started talking about electric cars there was a general |
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