Policy
Policy
To solve the climate crisis, it’s critical that we focus on growing solar at 25% per annum, as the number one climate lever. The Solar S-Curve can solve most of the climate challenge in a decade - and we’re so low-cost we don’t need subsidies, we only need an open, fair and transparent energy market, here’s the three simple policies to achieve that:
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Embrace Open Pricing: Let solar and storage and EV’s compete on price. Don’t add tariffs on cleantech, the jobs are all local, not in manufacturing. Remove all energy subsidies, nobody needs it.
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Cut Red Tape: Digitize and automate permitting and interconnection, to ensure speedy connection to the grid.
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Enact Electric Protocol, a standard set of rules for the world-wide-grid with uniform market-price treatment for all energy sources, of any size, connecting to the grid. These allow all consumers and prosumers to access the time-of-day value of energy and the value of other services they provide to the grid (e.g. batteries can peak shave, regulate frequency, avoid infrastructure spend on the grid – battery owners should be compensated, so consumers get lowest cost grid)
That’s it! No money, no support, just an open market. If you’re a policy-maker, please read my latest whitepaper (co-authored with Professor Andrew Crossland, Durham University Energy Institute) written for Ed Miliband, the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.
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