We're joined by Tom and Apoorv. Apoorv, tell us about WeaveGrid
and the work you're doing. Yeah, well, first of all, thanks for
having me. WeaveGrid works at the intersection of the electric
utility industry and the automotive industry. And we
essentially help
using artificial intelligence. We help electric utilities and
their customers actually predict and then automate and optimize
the way that those electric vehicles charge so that it
creates the least amount of congestion on the electric grid.
And it actually also helps integrate all the renewables
that are coming online at the same time. And by doing so,
we're actually able to reduce the cost of going electric for
customers and for the energy transition itself because we're
trying to bring a lot of new load onto a system
that wasn't designed for it. And so it's been a really exciting
time for WeaveGrid. And we work with a lot of really incredible
customers in the United States and a lot of the automotive
partners that make that all possible. Wow. And this is a
great way of incentivizing more people to turn electric. Yeah,
exactly. It's really about kind of building that systems
solution. Maybe to be a little poetic here, climate change is a
systems problem. You need a systems solution to kind of
tackle it. And
if you think about those two industries, at least in the US
emissions landscape, that's 60% of collective emissions between
power and automotive. And if we can actually find a way to
create a flywheel between reducing the cost of charging at
the same time also reducing the cost of the grid and increasing
grid resilience, I think that could be really powerful. So
that's what WeaveGrid does.
Great. Tom, stepping back, looking at the industry more
broadly, what are the challenges of decarbonization for
utilities? Yeah, well, I'm really excited by what WeaveGrid
is doing because we know electricity is incredibly
important to decarbonizing our entire economy. But as we've
said, it's very hard to interconnect that new electric
load. So we're seeing it with EVs, I see it with my clients,
with data centers and the big push we see there. We see it
with industrial decarbonization that's going to electrify.
And so technologies like this are incredibly critical to help
reduce the costs and better integrate both all these loads
that are gonna be electrifying to help decarbonize our economy
while also integrating more renewables.
Thanks very much, both of you, for joining us, Tom and Apoorv.
Thank you. Thank you.