On The Grid

The gang is here today to talk about grid resiliency and what you have to do as a utility when a massive storm hits. To help us dive into this topic, our guest this week is Gregory Knight from CenterPoint Energy, a Houston-based utility. We talk about what role the utility has not only in rebuilding infrastructure, but fostering a sense of camaraderie in ravaged communities.

This episode was sponsored by SAP

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This week we discuss the Energy Revolution with Rob Massoudi from ABB. How far have we come, where are we now and how did we get here?

We also discuss how we would go about writing a book on the modern energy story as well as books that we just happen to like because we're huge nerds like that.

This podcast was sponsored by ABB.

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This week we have Eric Dresselhuys from Smart Energy Water joining the podcast to talk about customer engagement and education. How do we engage consumers who may not have the desire or capability to be prosumers? How do we get fresh talent to join the industry? How do we better tell our stories to the customers we interact with every day? All this and more in this jam-packed episode!

This episode was sponsored by Smart Energy Water

This week we talked to Raiford Smith from Entergy about how data analytics are changing the way the energy industry makes decisions. Later we discussed Great Expectations and answer the most important question facing the industry: Are we a bunch of nerds?

This week we come to you live from the historic Moody Theater...'s nearby hotel in Austin, TX for the Energy Thought Summit 2018. Dylan, Erin, and Christine talk about the cool presentations and interesting people we met at the conference. Then we play a game because that's just kind of what we do.

I also did not intend for episode 18 to be ets18 but it's neat that it worked out that way, huh?

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On this episode, the gang talks about what living in a digital energy future actually looks like with Mike Carlson from Siemens. We also delve into personal energy journeys and also speculate where the next generation of energy professionals will come from.

Christine also gets an idea for a new survey.

This episode was sponsored by Siemens

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It's time to launch ETS18! Recorded at our launch party in Austin, TX we hung out with Nancy Bui-Thompson from SMUD to discuss what the theme "Dream in Digital" means to us. We also talked about our careers and played a game of "Would You Rather".

Carlos Nouel from National Grid joins the podcast to reflect on everything we learned about Distributech and the change in focus for tech companies in the nascent smart era of the energy industry.

Christine also brought us a nerdy sci-fi game to try.

This episode was sponsored by SAP

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What? It was the only Star Wars reference I could think of!

We hung out with S&C's David Chiesa in San Antonio to talk about his work with microgrids and how people might have been too hard on the Last Jedi.

This episode was sponsored by S&C

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At Distributech, we met up with Henry Bailey in SAP’s cool media booth and we talked about the Digital Prosumer. We addressed the disruption they are causing in the industry and break down who digital prosumers are, and who is likely to become one.

We also talk about how demand influences technology and somehow we get onto the Walking Dead. CARL!!!!!!

This podcast was sponsored by SAP.

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