Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged podcast really excited to bring

you a guest this week from Australia. Wonderful man called Simon Holmes Accord. Now I met Simon a

couple of years ago and we just clearly gone really well and it was amazing to meet him. It was

a real privilege and he's an amazing man. I've been meaning to get him on the podcast for a long

time. It's taken a bit of time to organise my fault and what Simon's done in the last 10, 15 years

is really make a big impact on the energy scene in Australia. The way I first heard of him was he

set up a was part of a group that set up a community wind farm in rural Victoria in Australia

which has been a huge success. So it was a couple of big wind turbines that are just outside a small

township. The people in the town have benefited directly economically from that wind farm. They're

very keen on it. It's a very popular renewable energy installation and sort of gives a hint at the

way that we should be doing. It's a particularly land-based wind. When it's owned by the people that

live near it, it makes a big difference. So that's what I first heard of him. Since then he's been doing

many, many other things. He's a really big advocate for renewable energy in Australia. He's a

fairly vocal critic of the coal industry and the federal government's attitudes to renewables

and particularly electric cars which is fairly negative. But he's just a really calm,

clear good voice advocating for an energy transition which Australia could do with

enormous success. It could become a global leader in that field. They have such an enormous

abundance of natural resources which would really make a big difference. Before we start,

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