EEI 2023
Apoorv Bhargava is the CEO of WeaveGrid.
The Edison Electric Institute held EEI 2023 in Austin and brought together industry stakeholders from all over the United States. The consensus is that the electric industry's transformation to low and then to zero-carbon electricity must include technological advancements to get there. That is why technology leaders also attended and brought their solutions with them. Public Utilities Fortnightly presents conversations with innovators, where high tech meets energy tech to allow resilient clean energy to be delivered to utility customers.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: Give some background on you, your organization, and its mission. Why the name WeaveGrid?
Apoorv Bhargava: WeaveGrid tells the story of the company's purpose. WeaveGrid is trying to weave together two industries, electric utilities and automotive, which have been operating separately for over a century.
I met my co-founder, John Taggart, during graduate school at Stanford. While my experience was working with utilities during my time in the BCG power and utilities practice and then at OPower, he had worked on the automotive side at Tesla.
When the two of us met, we knew there was something we could do at the center of these two industries that are now in a radical moment of change.