Buildings as Batteries: 12:30 for networking; Masterclass 1 pm.
If you miss out on in person tix – we’ve still got plenty online. And don’t forget we are scouting for an entire eBook. If you are interested in supporting that, get in touch – events@thefifthestate.com.au.
Two years ago, the call to “electrify everything” was not much more than a glimmer in our collective eyes. Today you can drive on the EV superhighway from Perth to Kununurra on the northernmost tip of Australia on the EV superhighway. (And as long as you stay out of the soft sand and have fully pumped tyres, you won’t get stranded.)
In another two years the world will look entirely different again.
As a professional working in the built environment, you have a huge weight of responsibility in your hands. You have owners, investors, occupants, financiers and government regulators and the community whose expectations you need to meet.
As global heating ramps up (this winter was up to 10 degrees above normal in some places) you have a responsibility to this planet as well.
If you want to know how the world can change in the next two years, our event tomorrow (Wednesday) will bring you face to face with the people who will make that happen. Listen, watch and discuss the plans and the possibilities that they’re mapping out for our future.
Geof Alexander from Jet Charge is one. His company has installed the EV charging units on the superhighway and another 10,000 or so right around the country and in New Zealand. The world as he sees it, is electric and the capacity for big batteries in our future cars in our net zero transition is as big as that ambition itself.
One of many jobs Alexander has handled is the trial of 60 electric trucks for Team Global Express at Bungarribee, Eastern Creek, west of Sydney, and partly funded by Australian Renewable Energy Agency. And just a heads up, Summer Steward from Team Global Express, will tell us how that trial is going; what the hiccups are and what those trucks cost: around $200,000 if they’re diesel powered and double that if they’re electric. And then there’s the infrastructure needed to run them! We are talking big investments. The business opportunities are in fact so big we reckon they just might be the biggest transformational power we have. Our job is to let them rip!
The possibilities are exciting, transformative and in a sense evolutionary.
We absolutely need to crawl our way out of the coal mine, one electron at a time, if needs be. But thanks to the brains who will be in the room tomorrow that’s potentially going to be a lot faster than we ever imagined.
If you miss out on a seat in person, grab an online ticket. It will be the best thing you see this year.
Check the full program for the details.
