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Saul Griffith

Cofounder, Glynt AI

Search every verified Saul Griffith interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Saul Griffith, a clean energy innovator and cofounder of Glynt Ai, has continued to advocate for widespread electrification as a primary climate solution. In a June 2025 podcast appearance, he discussed the need to shift focus from electricity supply to demand-side management, including home batteries, smart grids, and electric vehicles that can feed power back into the grid. He also commented on the state of U.S. scientific research under Elon Musk’s cuts, and pushed back against the idea that any single individual is responsible for technological progress, noting that the electricity grid was built through the contributions of thousands of people. In earlier appearances, Griffith has argued that Australia could become a global leader in decarbonization by electrifying homes, vehicles, and appliances, and by treating suburban infrastructure as a priority. He has stated that Australia’s climate policy has historically focused on future technologies like hydrogen hubs rather than immediate actions, and has called for policies requiring all new cars and appliances to be electric. In a 2011 TEDx talk, he discussed the scale of renewable energy needed to power humanity, suggesting that continent-scale engineering would be required, and noted the potential of high-altitude wind power.

Recent appearances

  • Saul Griffith Book Launch Plug In! in conversation with Geraldine Mellet

    October 05, 2025 · 📺 Melville City Climate Action Network Inc.

    Saul Griffiths speaks about his book “Plug In! - The Electrification Handbook”. 42% of Australia’s emissions come from Australian households. Saul discusses the 5 or 6 decisions households can make to swap out fossil fuel appliances and vehicles for ones powered by solar energy, leading to average household savings of $3,500 - $4,500 per year while also becoming part of the solution to the escalating Climate Emergency. He calculates that in his own postcode – 2151 near Wollongong – the swapping out of fossil fuel appliances and vehicles is already redirecting about $20 million a year into the…

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  • Electric Communities – In Conversation with Saul Griffith

    September 14, 2025 · 📺 Sustainable Energy Now

    Electric Communities – In Conversation with Saul Griffith Saul Griffith, Meri Fatin State Library Theatre Saul Griffith in conversation with Meri Fatin Electric communities across the country; Insights from his latest book ‘Plug In: The Electrification Handbook’ The local action happening in your community to electrify everything, fairer and faster.

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  • Power play – Saul Griffith’s plan to electrify everything

    September 09, 2025 · 📺 Deadset Studios

    It’s the early 2000s and a young Aussie engineer named Saul Griffith has made his way to the prestigious MIT in the United States. He launches several startups, including one that develops the technology that eventually powers the Kindle, he even consults to NASA and the US Department of Defence.  But at the same time, the climate crisis is looming larger. Saul tells his wife that perhaps he should ditch start-up life and instead become “an eco-terrorist”. It’s said partly in jest, but next thing Saul and his wife move their young family home to regional New South Wales.   Over a few bee…

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  • The Clean Energy Future Is Closer Than You Think | Saul Griffith

    June 09, 2025 · 📺 Josh Szeps

    If you think the climate conversation is all doom and division — think again. Saul Griffith, one of the world’s leading clean energy innovators, joins Josh for an electrifying conversation about how we can transform homes, grids, and entire economies with smarter, cheaper, cleaner electricity. They cover everything from the collapse of U.S. scientific research under Elon Musk’s cuts to why “electrifying everything” is the most exciting — and achievable — climate solution we’ve got. This is a big-picture vision of a future that works, for everyone.

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  • Saul Griffith on “How Can AI Accelerate Progress in Clean Energy & Climate Tech?”

    May 08, 2024 · 📺 Reinvent Futures

    This is a short talk by Saul Griffith, Founder and Chief Scientist of Rewiring America and Otherlab. Griffith was one of a dozen remarkable innovators who spoke at an event which addressed the question “How Can AI Accelerate Progress in Clean Energy & Climate Tech?” The event was part of a series of events called The AI Age Begins and was held at the Shack15 club in the Ferry Building of San Francisco in April of 2024. The series is hosted, created, and produced by Reinvent Futures. Summary: Saul Griffith offers a nuanced perspective on climate solutions, emphasizing the complexities of d…

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  • Absolutely Electrifying - Ep158: Saul Griffith

    March 27, 2024 · 📺 Cleaning Up Podcast

    Michael chats with Saul Griffith, Australian-born engineer, inventor, advisor, author and 2007 MacArthur "Genius". He specialises in clean and renewable energy technologies, and has founded a dozen technology companies across 20 years in Silicon Valley, as well as authoring 3 books, including `Electrify', and `The Big Switch'. He has recently turned his attention from Otherlab, his independent Research and Development lab, to policy work and writing, including founding Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia, non-partisan organisations dedicated to electrification and decarbonisation and the a…

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  • The electric plan to run a suburb off renewables | Saul Griffith | Australian Story

    February 27, 2023 · 📺 ABC News In-depth

    Saul Griffith is a prolific inventor, an engineer and a successful entrepreneur making waves for an electric future. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 His bold ideas on energy caught the eye of the US president and helped shape the ground-breaking climate legislation that passed there late last year. Now he’s returned home after two decades in the US and has joined with his community near Wollongong, south of Sydney, in an ambitious project to electrify homes in his suburb and power them with renewables. If successful, the pilot project will prove that household electrification is a potent…

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  • 101 million machines away from a zero emission Australia | Saul Griffith | TEDxSydney

    August 30, 2022 · 📺 TEDx Talks

    Electricity and electrification is the efficiency we've been looking for. Inventor, author and founder of Rewiring Australia Dr Saul Griffith shares his vision to Electrify everything with The Big Switch. Saul talks through the 101 million machines within Australian homes and businesses that need to be electrified in the next 20 years that will lead us into a clean energy future. Saul's mission is to get clean electrification, eliminate all emissions, reduce cost of living and improve the health of all Australians. Saul is an inventor, author, and successful entrepreneur. He has led dozens o…

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  • The State of Electrify Everything with Saul Griffith

    July 27, 2022 · 📺 Trellis Group

    Every year matters when it comes to electrification and decarbonization. Where are we today, what progress have we made in the last year, and what do we need to focus on in the year to come? Electrification BAMF Saul Griffith explains. This keynote session took place at GreenBiz's free online event, VERGE Electrify - Amping Up the All-Electric Future. Learn more about VERGE Electrify here: https://bit.ly/3zJ5qHZ Our links: Website: https://www.greenbiz.com/ Twitter:   / greenbiz   LinkedIn:   / gree.  . Instagram:   / greenbiz_group   Facebook:   / greenbiz  

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  • Dr Saul Griffith | Advance Sustainability Town Hall 2022

    June 28, 2022 · 📺 Global Australians

    Catch up on what inventor, author, and founder, Dr Saul Griffith, had to say at our recent Sustainability Town Hall. To find out more about our Sustainability Town Hall and to watch the full recording, click here: https://advance.org/global-town-hall-...

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  • How To Electrify Everything Featuring Saul Griffith

    October 13, 2021 · 📺 The Climate Pod

    #electrifyeverything #rewiringamerica #saulgriffith #climatechange This week, Saul Griffith joins the show to talk about his new book Electrify: An Optimists Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future. Saul is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Rewiring America, a non-profit dedicated to widespread electrification and decarbonization. We discuss how replacing or adding just a handful of products in our homes and our businesses can help transform and decarbonize our electricity grid, making us all healthier and saving us money at the same time. Be sure to subscribe to The Climate Pod YouTube cha…

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  • Saul Griffith on the one billion machines that will electrify America

    June 04, 2021 · 📺 Trellis Group

    Rewiring America founder Saul Griffith has a plan to rapidly electrify the country, create 25 million jobs and avoid the climate disaster. This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE Electrify, May 25-26, 2021. Learn more about the event here: https://events.greenbiz.com/events/ve... Watch our other must-see talks here:    / @trellisgroup   OUR LINKS Website: https://www.greenbiz.com/ Twitter:   / greenbiz   LinkedIn:   / gree.  . Instagram:   / greenbiz_group   Facebook:   / greenbiz  

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