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August 24, 2021 | 31 min audio Transcript Subscribe All Podcasts Podcasts In this episode: Indispensable yet fragile (0:00) Look but don't touch (3:06) Edison and Tesla (5:44) Making money off electricity (9:36) The rise of renewables (13:28) A change in the weather (16:24) Smarter electricity means a smarter grid (19:40) A community that produces as much as it consumes (23:03) The electric vehicles of the future (26:01) The story of change (29:24) Electric grids used to be small, with power plants located near what they were powering. As they grew and got further away, many people realized that bigger wasn’t always better. Now smart microgrids are taking over and are being powered using some surprising sources. Explore the story of power, renewable energy and more on a new Trailblazers. We gave you some information on the electric grid, but you could always stay more “current” with other Trailblazers episodes like these: Batteries feature prominently in stories about the electric grid, and we did an entire episode on them. Find out more about electric cars from our automobiles episode. Renewable energy and conservation go hand in hand when it comes to a sustainable future. “ 10 years, 15 years, 20 years from now, everybody's going to be generating their own power.” — Andres Carvallo, founder and CEO of CMG Consulting Share Guest List Gretchen Bakke is the author of The Grid, a 2016 Bill Gates pick and the 2020 ethnography The Likeness. Her work focuses on the chaos and creativity that emerge during social, cultural, and technological transitions. She is currently a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. Peter Asmus is Research Director at Guidehouse Insights focusing on emerging energy distribution, integration and optimization platforms such as microgrids, virtual power plants and distributed energy resource management systems. Andres Carvallo is the founder and CEO of CMG Consulting, a strategic planning and advisory firm focused on Smart Grids, Smart Utilities, Smart Cities, and Smart Buildings. Carvallo is known as the “Godfather of the smart grid” for designing and building the very first smart grid in the US at Austin Energy and the author of “The Advanced Smart Grid.” Bryan Hannegan is President and CEO of Holy Cross Energy (HCE), an electric cooperative serving more than 44,000 members in Western Colorado. HCE is leading the responsible transition to a clean energy future by increasing the renewable energy it provides to its members to 100% by 2030. Gregory Poilasne is the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Nuvve. Nuvve is the global leader in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology offering high-powered charging and grid services that optimize unused and renewable energy. 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