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We're joined by Tom and Apoorv.
Apoorv, tell us about WeaveGrid

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and the work you're doing. Yeah,
well, first of all, thanks for

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having me. WeaveGrid works at
the intersection of the electric

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utility industry and the
automotive industry. And we

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essentially help

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using artificial intelligence.
We help electric utilities and

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their customers actually predict
and then automate and optimize

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the way that those electric
vehicles charge so that it

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creates the least amount of
congestion on the electric grid.

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And it actually also helps
integrate all the renewables

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that are coming online at the
same time. And by doing so,

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we're actually able to reduce
the cost of going electric for

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customers and for the energy
transition itself because we're

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trying to bring a lot of new
load onto a system

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that wasn't designed for it. And
so it's been a really exciting

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time for WeaveGrid. And we work
with a lot of really incredible

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customers in the United States
and a lot of the automotive

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partners that make that all
possible. Wow. And this is a

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great way of incentivizing more
people to turn electric. Yeah,

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exactly. It's really about kind
of building that systems

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solution. Maybe to be a little
poetic here, climate change is a

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systems problem. You need a
systems solution to kind of

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tackle it. And

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if you think about those two
industries, at least in the US

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emissions landscape, that's 60%
of collective emissions between

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power and automotive. And if we
can actually find a way to

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create a flywheel between
reducing the cost of charging at

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the same time also reducing the
cost of the grid and increasing

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grid resilience, I think that
could be really powerful. So

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that's what WeaveGrid does.

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Great. Tom, stepping back,
looking at the industry more

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broadly, what are the challenges
of decarbonization for

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utilities? Yeah, well, I'm
really excited by what WeaveGrid

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is doing because we know
electricity is incredibly

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important to decarbonizing our
entire economy. But as we've

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said, it's very hard to
interconnect that new electric

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load. So we're seeing it with
EVs, I see it with my clients,

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with data centers and the big
push we see there. We see it

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with industrial decarbonization
that's going to electrify.

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And so technologies like this
are incredibly critical to help

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reduce the costs and better
integrate both all these loads

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that are gonna be electrifying
to help decarbonize our economy

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while also integrating more
renewables.

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Thanks very much, both of you,
for joining us, Tom and Apoorv.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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