“What is a grok?” asked a shareholder at AGL’s 2022 annual general meeting at the Melbourne Recital Centre on November 15, as those assembled struggled with the reality being forced on Australia’s biggest carbon emitter by Australia’s third-richest person.
Grok is, in fact, a word invented by science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein for his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. To “grok” means to understand something intuitively.
Which is not something likely to be said about how AGL’s leadership has appreciated the ambition of software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to have Australia’s biggest energy retailer lead the nation’s transition to renewable energy.
