Powering Change: What It Takes to Electrify Australian Industry
Wired for Good: Conversations for a Better Energy FutureShow Notes
What happens when Australia’s business sector is forced to reckon with the real cost of staying fossil-fuelled?
Host Sarah Aubrey is joined by Nigel Lowry (Ausgrid) and Dani Alexander (UNSW Energy Institute) to unpack the high-stakes challenge of electrifying everything from freight and transport to buildings and data centres.
They explore the scale of business emissions, the hardest sectors to decarbonise, the race for EV infrastructure, and what oil shocks mean for energy independence - alongside the growing pressure data centres place on the grid and how organisations are tackling their own transition.
This episode covers: business emissions; heavy freight electrification; EV infrastructure; diesel dependency; grid capacity; data centres; fleet and building decarbonisation; hydrogen vs electrification; and the policy needed to accelerate change.
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