Mega Solar Farms Boosting Biodiversity with Exagen
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week Robert is joined by Andrew Mott (Planning Manager) and Mark Rowcroft (Development Director) from Exagen. As a company, Exagen take an integrated approach to pairing utility scale solar farms with co-located grid balancing battery storage solutions, but how practical is it to create new solar farms? Andrew and Mark talk through some of the challenges and successes they've experienced working with Government and local communities to deliver these large scale projects.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm very excited to be here today because it's one, well, yet again, I've just had a brilliant |
| 0:21.5 | conversation with some amazing people who are doing incredibly important and, you know, |
| 0:27.9 | critically important things for the world and the future. Just before I get that, I do want to |
| 0:34.4 | talk about my lovely mates, my pals, at my energy, who have been sponsoring this podcast for too long |
| 0:42.4 | really, because, you know, they've been amazing. I don't mean that too long and that we're bored of |
| 0:46.4 | it. I mean too long and they're too generous. It's been incredible that we've been able to continue |
| 0:52.8 | this podcast and with a normal amount of help from them. And also, I don't know when this is going |
| 0:58.9 | to go out, but I know that very shortly there are about to announce some new products that we know |
| 1:05.4 | all about because we're on the inside of the energy matrix. But I'm really, I can't wait to be able |
| 1:11.7 | to talk about them openly because it's just going to happen. What's so exciting about what we're |
| 1:19.1 | seeing at the moment with this energy transition is it's going to happen. Doesn't matter what certain |
| 1:24.8 | politicians say or certain people, you know, have opinions that are a bit bronchers, kind of a relevant, |
| 1:30.4 | this is much bigger than any one politician, any one political party or any one country. This transition |
| 1:37.0 | is happening. And that is that I find very reassuring and there's going to be problems and there's |
| 1:42.3 | going to be drawbacks and it's not going to be plain sailing and there's going to be unforeseen |
| 1:46.4 | consequences of the changes we're going through which won't all be beneficial. But on the whole, |
| 1:51.6 | we are moving towards a global society where we don't burn as much stuff and that is a very good |
| 1:58.3 | thing and my energy are absolutely pivotal in facilitating that, in allowing us to do the things |
| 2:05.6 | we need to do just to stay comfortable warm and fed. You know, those really basic things, not be |
| 2:11.0 | all flash and fly around in private jets and have glamorous jewelry like people worship. I |
| 2:17.6 | just can't have a goat, those Kardashian people because I've watched some of them. And I mean, |
| 2:22.4 | I don't have anything against any of them. It's just that the glamourisation of seen |
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