#keepittogether
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💡 When a worker lit Sydney’s first gas lamp in 1841, @AGL was a company excited to embrace the future – not one that was afraid of it.
For 180 years, the company has had a proud history of leaning into the future, innovation & embracing the latest in technology.
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Feb 13, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Budget next month! Big chance to double down on our biggest economic opportunity… decarbonisation.
It isn’t an “environment portfolio” issue. It is an all of economy issue 🇳🇿🌏
@joshfrydenberg, if decarbonisation wasn’t just a mention, it could look something like this 👇🏻
1. HOUSING & HEALTH - Help Aussies electrify their homes 🏡 & 🏥
Switching your car & appliances (heating/water/cooking etc) from petrol & gas to electricity drops energy bills & makes your house far healthier. Panels & batteries further reduce costs. @RewiringAus can help. 2/13
Oct 21, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Yesterday, my wife Annie & I announced our "green pledge".
Our goal: invest + donate >$1.5b by 2030
... towards keeping warming <1.5° by 2030 🌏
Ahead of #COP26 in Glasgow - we're raising our personal ambition & urgency.
Explainer thread: 🧵👇🏻
afr.com/policy/energy-…
Why now? #COP26 brings together governments, countries, businesses & individuals to tackle the largest existential crisis facing humanity - ensuring a habitable climate for our future.
None of those groups can solve it alone.
All of those groups must raise their ambition.
Aug 30, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Because @JasonFalinskiMP made me spelunk his tweets to find potshots... let's debunk this one.
How did the UK achieve this "fantastic outcome"? What can we "learn from them"?
"The answer is simple, they used natural gas and nuclear energy."
Are you serious about 1GW of dispatchable generation in Newcastle (quote by April 2021, live by December 2023)... or you're mandating building a gas plant?
If we can do the former _without_ gas, will you say no?
Define "dispatchable"?
I'll assume whatever the amount of subsidy or government investment $ approved for this would be the same no matter the technology chosen?
Tomorrow you have a chance. Ocean plastic & recycling are important. Twiggy's doing awesome stuff. But can you feel the fear on climate & emissions?! We're fiddling while the world literally burns!
“Put simply, this is a classroom that has solar cells on its roof. It’s got a battery and that means it doesn’t have to connect up to the grid.
The reason this is so important is it delivers very significant savings.”
Couldn’t agree more, and apparently...
Feb 5, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The most important thing about solar + wind that everyone has to understand is the learning rate. Here’s a good example. These are both technology + scale driven (like chips or phone cameras). Their input costs are $0, so all manufacturing improvements directly drive down $...
This makes them radically different in their cost structure to fossil fuel based energy sources (that require trucks / trains / ships / fuel / people to run a plant).
They _will_ continue to get cheaper. It’s a certainty. For many years (more likely many decades) to come.
Oct 17, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
⚡️Taking Australia 100% onto renewables eventually? Been asked a few times - so I’ve tried to write up some logic off top of my head, I hope others can bring the maths & fact check my thinking paths. apologies for typos - it’s late. We can do this 🇦🇺. More… (1/8)
Most important issue to grok? Time shifting. We need to shift the time energy is captured to when it is used. Multiple techniques like batteries and time zones (continent wide grid). (2/8)
