Make sure to RSVP for each monthly NYC Happy Hour meetup here.
Previous Meetups ︎
Valuing DERs with Justin Gundlach of The Institute for Policy Integrity
Resi DERs with Kiran Bhatraju, CEO of Arcadia
Building Electrification with Fei Wang of Wood Mackenzie
Blockchain & Digitized Energy with Jesse Morris, CCO of Energy Web
FERC Order 2222 with Peter J. Cavan of Centrica
DERMS Panel with employees of Wood Mackenzie, Con Edison, Opus One Solutions, and Blueprint Power
Small Modular Reactors with Caroline Cochran, Co-Founder and COO of Oklo
Deploying Heat Pumps with Nate the House Whisperer and Cullen Kasunic of BlocPower
Project Finance with Julian Torres of Scale Microgrid Solutions
Bitcoin + DERs with Isaac Maze-Rothstein of Wood Mackenzie
Co-op's & DERs with Bryan Hannigan, CEO of Holy Cross Energy
Small Community Hydro with Northern Power & Light
Virtual Power Plants with Cisco DeVries and Matt Deusterberg of OhmConnect
Solar, Storage, EVs with Chris Rauscher, Senior Director of Market Development & Policy at Sunrun
The Importance of Utility Data Access with Michael Murray of Mission:data
Transactive Energy with Lynne Kiesling, Co-Director, IRLE at University of Colorado Denver Economics
Podcasts ︎
Episode 0: “Der Task Force Introduction”
Episode 1: “Franchise Rights”
Episode 2: “Public Safety Power Shutoffs”
Episode 3: “Energy Blockchain”
Episode 4: “Climate Tech, VC, and Private Equity”
Episode 5: “DERs in Wholesale Markets”
Episode 6: “Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER)”
Episode 7: “CA Emergency Episode”
Episode 8: “Resi DERs”
Episode 9: The Age of the Electron
Episode 10: FERC 2222 and the Future Grid
Episode 11: The Texas Resilience Gamble
Episode 12: Is Bitcoin a Backup Generator?
Episode 13: California NEM Three Point No
Episode 14: Nuclear is Isodope
More coming soon...
Resources ︎
The DER Task Force Bill of Rights
Age of the Electron
Guide to the Grid: Level I
Energy Basics Series
Why Resilience Matters by Duncan Campbell
Two primers on DERs and Microgrids from David Roberts (aka Dr. Volts)
Get an Overview of DERs from The Existential Investor and go deeper on the value propositions with DERs and Local Resilience.
Read The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke, PhD to understand the history of the grid we have today.
Read Living on the Grid: The Fundamentals of the North American Electric Grids in Simple Language
Vlogs ︎
coming soon