Severe storms are fast-tracking grid resiliency projects
When Winter Storm Uri hit Texas in 2021, it led to more than 240 deaths and hobbled the electric grid for days. At the time, Arushi Sharma Frank was working on Tesla’s U.S. energy policy team, trying ...
17 Des 202419min
Survey highlights limits of green messaging
In 2014, Nathan Shannon was working for a community land trust in Georgia, building affordable housing. But following his interest in behavioral economics, he attended the Behavior, Energy, and Climat...
3 Des 202422min
What is and isn't clean energy?
Toby Ferenczi used to work for an energy provider that marketed 100% clean energy but also ran a demand response program. When customers started asking him why they should shift their energy use to ce...
19 Nov 202420min
Will today’s election set the energy transition on a new course?
Sonia Aggarwal spent the early years of her career moving between nonprofits and the private sector, supporting renewable energy deployment. But after watching early climate policies fail in Washingto...
5 Nov 202420min
Get ready for season four
Over the past three seasons of With Great Power, we've met some of the incredible people working to make our power grid smarter, cleaner, and more resilient. We've examined the complexity of policy an...
24 Sep 20241min
Advanced processing is making clean energy cheaper
Marc Spieler had been at the oil and gas giant Halliburton for 13 years when he first saw inklings of the energy transition – like Shell’s investment in geothermal and Exxon Mobil’s wind and solar PPA...
20 Aug 202424min
Grid-enhancing tech emerges from 'pilot hell'
Hudson Gilmer worked in telecom in the 90’s when the industry transformed how data moved. And it didn’t take long for him to realize that a similar transformation would happen with electric utilities ...
7 Aug 202426min
Thinking differently about the utility customer experience
In Nigeria, tens of millions of people live without access to reliable power. Utibe Bassey grew up in Lagos, and knows what it’s like to not have electricity to perform simple daily tasks. When she mo...
23 Jul 202424min
