NOAA is helping utilities face multiplying climate threats
Sarah Kapnick has always been drawn to solving complex problems, and as a kid she dreamed of being a mathematician. But a stronger desire to work on more tangible things, led her to blaze a career pat...
9 Jul 202420min
Why a rural co-op wants to build green hydrogen
Luis Reyes is a lifer at Kit Carson Electric, a rural energy co-operative in northern New Mexico. He grew up in a home powered by the utility and has been its CEO for 30 years. Under his leadership – ...
25 Jun 202419min
How Avangrid built a data foundation for AI
Mark Waclawiak was tuned into energy issues at an early age. Both his parents worked in the industry: his mom designed electrical systems for buildings and his dad worked at the utility. So the import...
11 Jun 202424min
Getting innovators to 'fail fast' in the energy industry
Kim Getgen moved to Silicon Valley from Washington D.C. in 2000, just in time for the dot com bubble burst. Despite her timing, she fell hard for the excitement and opportunity of startups and technol...
28 Mai 202420min
Why dynamic rates are gaining momentum
Ahmad Faruqui has been researching electricity pricing since the mid 1970’s, when the cost of a kilowatt-hour was flat. But in the 80’s and 90’s, he started working on dynamic pricing – pioneering the...
14 Mai 202422min
How PG&E is using batteries to improve service
Heather Rock has always liked grappling with big, existential questions. Knowing she wanted to “serve a carbon-neutral future,” she left Chevron in 2018 to become senior director of strategy for Pacif...
30 Apr 202422min
Forecast calls for an overtaxed grid
From his early days working on regulatory policy on the Hill to his current role as president of Grid Strategies, Rob Gramlich has been focused on future-proofing the electrical grid. Twenty years ag...
16 Apr 202425min
The urgent need for more grid automation
In 2016, Dr. Kyri Baker was a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory working on a new home energy management system. Called Foresee, the system reduced energy usage through machine lea...
2 Apr 202423min
