CleanTech Office Hours: Virtual Power Plants & Distribution Grids
Abundance Institute, Edge Zero, Luminary Strategies present:
Nowhere has there been such a gathering of nerdy powerhouses, at your disposal for office hours conversation and Q&A. The education all climate tech startup teams need.
Bring stuff to write on, draw on, learn on - this is an executive education course delivered by field warriors, the people who should actually be energy professors.
Learn it all, and walk away smarter on whatever it is you are doing or plan to do to transform the Grid Edge.
Topics: All things Virtual Power Plants, the Wild West of the Distribution Grid, the Challenges, the Opportunities.
The Setup: We'll have mics, a cash bar, comfy seats, and room for 50.
Meet Your Hosts:
Arushi Sharma Frank: the ex-Tesla policy wizard responsible for leading the charge on distributed grid virtual power plant market design in Texas, plus a half-dozen other massive initiatives which have invited dozens of companies into grid edge cleantech. Her firm helps noobs, startups and non-Texas established players build out cleanteach strategies and figure out the weirdness and awesomeness of energy markets literally everywhere. Catch her on the DER Task Force Pod: https://www.dertaskforce.com/p/the-real-story-of-texas-vpp-policy @ArushiSF
Jesse Peltan is Founder of Type 1, Principal at Alussa Energy, and an Abundance Institute Fellow with thousands of followers at x.com/jessepeltan, who watch him post and teach grid edge fundamentals in real-time every day. He built HODL Ranch's first Bitcoin mining campus in west Texas, earning him a spot on Forbes 30 under 30 in 2021. www.forbes.com/profile/jesse-peltan/
J.T. Thompson: Chief Revenue Officer of Edge Zero, a company responsible for plopping data-hungry monitoring devices on grid edge transformers and getting 75% of Australia's utilities comfortable with a whopping 1 in 5 rooftop solar adoption rate. He's also a former leader at Generac, the company providing backup and grid edge tech everywhere. He'll tell you what utilities know and don't know about their systems as they electrify transportation fleets, EV chargers, and homes. The Edge Zero Power Map is pretty sweet, he'll explain how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBd6nKailtQ