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Freeing Energy
- How Innovators Are Using Local-Scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In
- Narrated by: David Gann
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our modern world is outdated and in dire need of an upgrade. Freeing Energy offers a new and faster path towards a clean energy future — one that is more reliable, more equitable, and cheaper.
Just like personal computers eclipsed mainframes, millions of solar rooftops and small battery systems are challenging every assumption about our century-old, centralized electric grid. These small-scale “local energy” systems are deeply disruptive because they are based on fast-moving technologies, not fuels. Driven by a new generation of innovators and genuinely competitive markets, smaller systems are faster to build, easier to finance, cleaner to operate, and they create far more jobs than large-scale projects. Bill Nussey takes listeners to mud huts in Africa, an off-grid farm in California, and a rural school in the mountains of Puerto Rico to uncover the underlying patterns of technology and the business model innovations of the local energy revolution. He shares stories and insights from some of the industry’s brightest visionaries and from leaders of the most cutting-edge startups, bringing it all together into an actionable framework to help accelerate this transition.
Freeing Energy is a deeply researched, actionable guide for anyone that cares about the future of energy — from startups, policymakers, investors, and utility leaders to the families and communities that want cleaner, cheaper energy today.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-02-22
inspiring and hope inducing
a compelling overview, including the amazing hietory of green energy. offers a clear,
actionable path forward for society.
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- Judith Langley
- 19-05-23
A must read for renewable energy entrepreneurs
This book is a very well researched view of the future of the electric grid and how we have got to where we are now. It really helped to focus my ideas and direction as well as understand more about why the system in place exist.
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- Disappointed Buyer
- 25-01-22
Excellent
Loved it, easy to listen to and learnt alot. Would highly recommend for anyone interested in renewables
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