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Saul Griffith

What Saul Griffith thinks about energy

@saul-griffith · 18 positions

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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5 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Saul Griffith has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingProducing commodities like iron, cement, and aluminium will require prolifically cheap electricity to remain price-competitive with fossil fuels.

    Their wordsFor commodities like iron, cement, aluminium, fertilisers, copper, nickel, and others, we are going to need prolifically cheap (like 2-3c/kWh) electricity to make them at the same prices they can be made with fossil fuels.

    ↗Electrif-Ai Everything (NYCW edition)energyandstuff.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  2. 5 months earlier

  3. Our readingThe transition to heavy industry electrification requires new processes, equipment, and supply chains rather than just cheap electricity.

    Their wordsThe molecules-to-electrons transition in heavy industry requires not just cheap electricity but new processes, new equipment, new supply chains, and patient capital willing to back first-of-a-kind plants and long and uncertain capital cycles.

    ↗Pax Electricanaenergyandstuff.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingThe future of global trade will shift from shipping fossil fuels to shipping materials with embodied clean energy.

    Their wordsThe trade of the future isn't tankers of LNG. It's shiploads of green iron and aluminium and lithium (and ammonia and copper and ...) - molecules that carry clean electrons inside them.

    ↗Pax Electricanaenergyandstuff.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  6. 6 months earlier

  7. Our readingThe US electricity system can grow sufficiently to accommodate AI, EV, and residential electrification loads at a rate of growth about half of what was seen between 1975 and 2000.

    Their wordsMaybe it isn't all as insane as it sounds, on current trends the grid can grow sufficiently to accomodate all of these loads and some residential electrification as well, and do so at a rate of growth only about half of that which was seen between 1975 and 2000.

    ↗Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodallenergyandstuff.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece

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

    solarAmerica

    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.

    ↗Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodallenergyandstuff.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece