Perspective

“Our vision has been to build a partnership and a technological system that allows us to break down the digital silos that exist between the automotive industry and the utility industry to address the potential pain points that experts told us would be coming.”

“Reactive is the only company that provides real-time measurement of grid stability. On the transmission system, that’s interpreted as inertia. Inertia is a measure of grid stability. As you add more renewables to the grid – some don’t like to admit this – grid stability goes down because inertia goes down.”

“I am a true believer in the potential of behavior-based changes in energy. That could be small things that people do, how they use their thermostats and adjust window shades, but it could also be big changes. It could be the EV adoption journey.”

“All that energy must be decarbonized as the world goes to zero. The transportation sector, the grid; we’re getting good at decarbonizing those, despite challenges. But industry is the hard to decarbonize sector. Why? Industrial heat.”

“It is important to get customers to adopt these technologies and then enroll in the programs that utilities want and need them to.”

PUF presents conversations with innovators, where high tech meets energy tech to allow resilient clean energy to be delivered to utility customers.

Residential electric bills as a percent of overall consumer expenditures, for all goods and services, varies significantly by state. A table shows bills as percent of overall consumer expenditures by state, while a graph plots data by year from 1997 to 2022.

“Our relationship with energy is the story of humanity. It’s about people’s lives, economic well-being, futures, and the health and well-being of our planet.”

“AEIC members throughout North America are responding to these challenges by leveraging government funding and incentives for upgrading the grid to meet the projected future demand for electricity to power EVs and to build out the vehicle charging network. These efforts are also supported by robust consumer education and engagement campaigns.”

“VEIR is building a new generation of high-capacity transmission lines that can go over long distances, giving five to ten times more power in the same right-of-way space used with a conventional conductor.”