Dr Philipp Grunewald appears before Energy and Climate Change Committee
Thursday 14 Jan 2016
Dr Philipp Grunewald, Deputy Director for Energy Research at Oxford, gave expert opinion to the Energy and Climate Change Committee as part of their enquiry into low carbon network infrastructure this week.
You can watch the full session on ParliamentLive.
“If a system is in steady state it’s quite good to have experts on individual technologies and to try and tease efficiency out of one technology will usually help the system. But we’re not dealing with a system in steady state; it’s undergoing a pretty fundamental transition, and when a system undergoes such transition what you need is system thinkers who understand how the components fit together.”
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