1118: Saturday Special Interview: Graeme Cooper from National Grid | 19 June 2021 - a podcast by EV News Daily

Show #1118.

 

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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Saturday 19th June. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.

 

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On the podcast today we welcome Graeme Cooper from National Grid. This was recorded earlier in the week as part of our livestream series of interviews, collaborating between this channel and Nicolas Raimo from the ‘EV Nick’ channel.

 

Timestamps below:

 

00:22 Intro To Show

01:34 Who is the National Grid

05:49 Electric Vehicles Will Take Grid Down?

17:50 Is The US Ahead Of The UK National Grid?

19:42 Road Rail Aviation and Maritime Power

21:06 Grid Resilience Importing Power & Exporting

25:39 Net-Zero 2050

28:45 What's the balance with regulations

33:24 How Do You Heat Your Home?

37:41 Do we need Hydrogen to be Green?

 

You can connect with Graeme via LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemecooper/

 

 

 

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