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
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
