How a Florida water utility is tapping into AI
After emigrating from Cuba to the U.S. at age ten, Georges Gonzalez struggled to find his voice and his passion. It took joining the Civil Air Patrol and, later, the Air Force to boost his confidence ...
26 Touko 21min
Taming explosive load growth with rate design
Fifteen years ago, Scott Engstrom thought utilities were boring, bureaucratic organizations where people went for job security. But after co-founding GridX in 2010 during the smart meter era, he disco...
12 Touko 25min
Optimizing distributed energy resources
Audrey Zibelman’s first job as a trial lawyer in a male-dominated firm in Minneapolis wasn’t a good fit. So she moved to the state’s attorney general office, a place known for being more supportive of...
28 Huhti 19min
How VPPs came of age
In 2007, Apple released its first iPhone. That same year, Seth Frader-Thompson co-founded EnergyHub, planning to leverage smartphones to help consumers save energy. But over time, the startup realiz...
14 Huhti 19min
PJM’s high stakes reform
In 2019, when Julia Hoos moved to Houston for a role with Boston Consulting Group, she had no interest in the energy industry. For one thing, it was — and largely remains — a boy’s club. For another, ...
31 Maalis 22min
Can AI help save the grid?
Growing up in Silicon Valley, Varun Sivaram didn’t look to Elon Musk or Sergey Brin to learn about success stories. He looked to his dad, a material scientist who immigrated from India. But Varun’s o...
17 Maalis 19min
National Grid maps its wildfire risk
From his early days as a paper boy and eagle scout to his time as a naval officer decades later, Casey Kirkpatrick has always believed in service. Today, after more than 25 years with the energy giant...
3 Maalis 18min
How millions of small shifts make gigawatts of energy capacity
Most kids don’t think much about how buildings are powered or how much energy they waste. But growing up in an old, inefficient apartment building in New York, Ben Brown did. From an early age he knew...
17 Helmi 22min
