The technology to generate electricity with wind and solar has existed for decades. So why isn't the U.S. grid already 100% rewewable?
"Offshore wind, tidal, and wave power do not take up any new land. Rooftop photovoltaic does not take up any new land," he said.
"The biggest barrier is a lack of imagination," Griffith told CNBC in a video interview from Australia, where he currently lives. "So everyone is like, 'Well, I'm not quite willing to do this, because I don't know what it's going to look like. And maybe it's going to be terrible.'""It's going to look like every house has solar on its roof. There'll be solar over every parking structure.
The Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022 was chock full of incentives to push renewables forward, but it didn't put any firm sunsetting dates on fossil fuel generation. "So we've got a skills and capacity and supply chain shortage on all of these things, which means that the right thing to do is not the easy thing to do," he said.
For instance, in Australia, Griffith said he can call 10 companies and get 10 quotes for rooftop solar the next day at 65 cents per watt. In California, rooftop solar cost him $5.80 per watt. Even given the higher cost of living in San Francisco in general, "it shouldn't be 10 times more expensive than in Australia," he said.It's his view that in the U.S. it all comes down to regulation and preserving the status quo.
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