Renewable Energy

“And at least, you know, in Massachusetts, for example, you know, we passed a permitting reform law in, in the last year that really cut down the time in which renewable energy projects could be permitted pretty substantially, you know, deadlines within a year,…”

“For the first time this year, China's renewable energy is higher than coal energy.”

“I think that we've like something like 32 or 34 gigawatts of renewable energy. Since 2020, we've contracted and consumed. So I think we're one of the largest buyers in, in the world.”

“The price of diesel, whether it's renewable or not, is the price of diesel. The price of carbon when we started was 50 bucks a ton, when we ended it was five. And When we started, the U S was energy dependent. And when we were done, the U S was cushing with en…”

“Texas is the leader right now. They're producing the most renewable energy in the U S and like historically, I mean, that is where oil comes from, right?”

“When you look at the capital cost per kilowatt of nuclear with everything that is known today, it's much more expensive than even highly curtailed renewables.”

“1.5 terawatts is the total amount of renewable energy capacity that will need to be deployed on an annual basis to maintain the sustainable energy economy. And that's basically keeping up with plant retirements. So on a steady state basis, 1.5 terawatts is how…”

“Yeah, we might have a terawatt year this decade. It's not crazy.”

“In reality, 80% of new generating capacity in India is renewable.”

“एक सौसतासी गिगावाट रेन्यूबल एनरजी प्रोड्यूस करी और हमने करीब बारा करोर महिलाओं को कुकिंग गैस कनेक्शन दिया”

“We went from solar being the future in the nineties to just being the commonplace reality that no one thinks too much about. And it feeling economical for a lot of people. It's like, oh, you live in a sunny area. You're gonna save some money.”

“Today, total installed capacity is about one 75 gigawatts in India.”

“Yeah, so the draft regulations for the banking sector put a very high risk factor on, on tax equity. They treat it like private equity, which it is not, and rather than tax equity, which is more like a loan and so they have it at 400%, and it just means that, …”

“California needs a 180 gigawatts more of renewable energy in the next 10 to 15 years. That's additional. We've only built 50.”

“Because you're just building capital, and there's no operating cost, there's no fuel, and the capital you're building is an order of magnitude less stuff than, say, renewable.”

“And now most serious people who are studying this say we can handle on a lot of grids, 80% renewable energy.”

“They have taken a huge chunk of the market away from coal, and they're cutting into natural gas's market share for providing electricity to the state, and there are oil and gas guys who really don't want to give up anything else.”

“Well, I mean, there was one bill to ban all future renewable energy development.”

“This is going to be really expensive. It's also going to be highly political because we don't know yet what the PUC will assign to different facilities, but it will definitely slow down new investment in Texas, renewable energy.”

“In order to build ten million tons of hydrogen, you're talking about 200 gigawatts of renewables that have to then be built and then converted into hydrogen.”

“There is probably a recent report you probably saw that 209 out of the 210 coal plants that are operating currently in the U.S. Would be cheaper to shut them down and just invest in the capital cost of building renewable energy to replace them.”

“Kenya's grid is actually about 75% installed capacity is renewable right now, and about 90% of the energy they produce is renewable. A lot of that is because of the focus on geothermal.”

“So we may actually be destroying that demand potential in the long term. So if you are thinking that, hey, I am going to sell LNG to Europe for 10 years, and then by 2035, I will have potential in Southeast Asia. I am not so sure. First of all, because they ma…”

“And we did meet that goal of a hundred percent renewable What I think is even. In 2017, exactly.”

“Like there's going to be a lot of energy use and like no one's life cycle pencils without renewable energy use.”

“Even though this year we're going to have a lot of negative things, we're going to have to bring back on coal plants in Europe, we're going to see other kinds of, ah, fuel being used that we thought we were moving away from. In the end, a shock like this is go…”

“One of the key enabling insights for me is really seeing the LCOE calculations for renewable energy which is levelized cost of electricity. One of the biggest levers is actually the cost of capital.”

“There is essentially unlimited capital right now that's trying to get into ESG. It's amazing. It's a wonderful thing to see. So much capital from all around the world is trying to pour into renewable energy.”

“Today, Hawaii gets a third of electricity from local renewable energy, the vast majority from solar. Almost half is from small systems on rooftops. That's way more than the mainland US, which gets about 20% of its energy from renewables, Mostly hydro and wind.”

“They are forcing the curve on EVs. They're forcing the price structure of batteries. It's hard not to see them as one of the greatest forces of the last decade in catalyzing the energy transition. For all of the lying and prevaricating and questionable busines…”

“Number two, you need to acknowledge the amazing investment that China has made in renewable energy. It far exceeds anywhere else in the world, and yeah,”

“The thing you really need to invest in is actually free renewable energy, because if you have free renewable energy, we have less of a social impact as jobs go, because we can actually produce food, we can produce almost anything we want, and it gets a little …”