Summary
- Australian inventor focused on rapid, economy-wide electrification.
- Founder of Rewiring America and Rewiring Australia.
- Known for “electrify everything” as a core climate strategy.
- Combines engineering, economics, and policy into actionable pathways.
- Influential voice shaping practical decarbonisation strategies globally.
Saul is an engineer and entrepreneur specialising in clean and renewable energy technologies. He has founded a dozen technology companies across 20 years in Silicon Valley. Saul is the author of 3 books, including Electrify, and The Big Switch. Saul has recently turned his attention from Otherlab, his independent Research and Development lab, to policy work and writing, including founding Rewiring America, Rewiring Australia and Rewiring Aotearoa, non-partisan organisations dedicated to electrification and decarbonisation. Saul is an Honorary Professor of Practice with the School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wollongong. Saul’s work focuses on practical decarbonisation through electrification, developing system-wide solutions to rapidly reduce emissions by replacing fossil fuel infrastructure with renewable energy and efficient technologies at scale.
If Australia electrified the whole domestic economy, we'd save $1.7 trillion by 2050; any Australian household that electrifies their car, their cooking, their heating will save.
