Will Energy Bills Continue To Rise? With Simon Evans
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Simon Evans is a Senior Policy Editor at Carbon Brief. UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy. They specialise in clear, data-driven articles and graphics to help improve the understanding of climate change, both in terms of the science and the policy response. We publish a wide range of content, including science explainers, interviews, analysis and factchecks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another exciting episode. Exciting, educational, inspirational, optimistic, |
| 0:20.1 | challenging episode of everything electric. The podcast I'm really, really excited about |
| 0:28.6 | today's episode. I'm always excited about all of them. It's possible I'm easily excited. That |
| 0:33.3 | has to be faced. But I think this is, I think you'll really enjoy today's show. Just before we start, |
| 0:37.8 | I just want to talk about the amazing, amazing company that is my energy. Now yesterday I went up to |
| 0:46.6 | Grimsby in North, North Lincolnshire, which is for those of you outside the UK, it's on the |
| 0:53.3 | northeast coast of the UK, very near hull. It was Grimsby was once the premier, the number one, |
| 1:00.7 | the biggest fishing port in the world, not just the UK or Europe, the world. I'm talking before I |
| 1:08.7 | was born, so a while ago. And it gradually had a demise and we basically fished all the caught |
| 1:14.2 | up in the North Sea. There weren't any left. That's always a bit of a problem. And or very few |
| 1:19.4 | left. And they went further afield to Iceland. There was a big Huha with discredits with the |
| 1:24.2 | Icelandic nation. Should we be fishing around them? You take a near fish? Kind of felt like they |
| 1:31.0 | had a point at the time. I didn't like to say. Anyway, there was a terrible demise of the fishing |
| 1:36.2 | industry in huge unemployment and poverty and deprivation really sad. Once great thriving town, |
| 1:43.3 | just sort of fell on itself, which is that we have a long history of that in the UK for many |
| 1:47.2 | different reasons, the mining towns, the old steel making towns, you know, a lot of change since |
| 1:53.8 | the early industrial revolution, which we were very much part of the very beginning of the early |
| 1:59.2 | industrial revolution in this country. I think we can easily forget. History, if there's any young |
| 2:04.6 | people listening, is very important. It's important to know the backstory. Anyway, this area now |
| 2:11.3 | is seeing a phenomenal resurgence. I mean, genuinely extraordinary resurgence of economic activity. |
| 2:17.7 | And it's 100% down to new technologies to offshore wind and many other things, which I will |
| 2:25.9 | mention, including very, very critically importantly, my energy. But there is this huge |
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