What Saul Griffith thinks about America

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Australian-American engineer and inventor; founded Otherlab and co-founded Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia, which advocate household electrification. Author of Electrify (2021) and The Big Switch (2022); writes the Energy & Stuff newsletter.

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13 Oct 2025

Our readingUnnecessary soft costs in the US create a significant difference in the cost of installing rooftop solar compared to Australia.

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Their wordsThese un-necessary soft costs account for the 7.5X difference in cost, and is a big part of why Americans can't have cheap electricity yet.

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