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Climate change minister says world is having an ‘electrification moment’ at major conference
The climate change minister, Chris Bowen, said he think the world is having an “electrification moment” during a climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, this week.
One thing that we have been getting right in Australia is that the journey to net zero runs through households, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in many ways.
I think what’s happening is this: a lot of households are saying, well, now that we have solar panels on the roof and a battery in the garage, why don’t we get an EV? Because we can charge that EV at night off our battery and pay nothing. And I think these things become self-fulfilling and self-reinforcing.
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