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David Roberts
What's the real story with Australian rooftop solar?
1 hour 27 minutes Posted Dec 26, 2025 at 5:02 pm.
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Why can Australian homeowners get rooftop solar installed in a week or less, for roughly 50 cents a watt, while Californians pay $3.30/w and wait months for interconnection? In this episode, I ask inimitable Australian energy expert Saul Griffith to walk us through the entire process — from quote to interconnection — to pinpoint exactly where the US system is broken and how we could fix it.



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