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- 602The Future of the Grid: Ben Eidelson Live at Climate Week NYC20 Oct 2026 · 29 minCody Simms▶Show page
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In this live episode of Inevitable from Climate Week NYC, Cody Simms explores the history and future of the electric grid with Ben Eidelson of Stepchange . Eidelson traces the evolution of the grid from J.P. Morgan and Pearl Street through the AC/DC debate, the rise of utilities, and Samuel Insull’s development of a…
- 601From Twilio to Fusion with Jeff Lawson14 Oct 2026 · 31 minJeff Lawson▶Show page
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Jeff Lawson is the co-founder and CEO of Inertia , a fusion energy company working to commercialize inertial confinement fusion using advanced lasers and mass-manufactured fusion fuel targets. Lawson previously co-founded and led Twilio, scaling the company from an idea into a public company, and is now applying his…
- 600Uplift: Making Temporary Housing Deployable Anywhere29 Sept 2026 · 45 min▶Show page
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Charlie Nitschelm is the co-founder and CEO of Uplift , a company building affordable, rapidly deployable temporary housing. Uplift’s first product is a 90-square-foot, off-grid home designed for one to two people that can be transported fully assembled, placed with a standard forklift, and self-level without a…
- 599Michael Thomas: Inside America's Off-Grid Data Center Boom16 Sept 2026 · 58 min▶Show page
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Michael Thomas is the founder and CEO of Cleanview , a data and research platform tracking more than 10,000 clean energy projects and thousands of data center projects across the country. Back for his third appearance on Inevitable , Thomas has spent the past year investigating the explosive growth of AI…
- 598Turning Data Centers Into Grid Assets with ON.energy8 Sept 2026 · 44 minAlan Cooper▶Show page
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Alan Cooper is co-founder and CEO of ON.energy , a Miami-based company building battery-backed power systems for AI data centers. Its flagship product, AI UPS, sits between the grid and a data center, creating a buffer that isolates the grid from the massive volatility of AI workloads while providing uninterrupted…
- 597Fourier Is Solving Long-Duration Storage with On-Site Hydrogen1 Sept 2026 · 36 min▶Show page
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Siva Yellamraju is the co-founder and CEO of Fourier , a company building modular, on-site hydrogen systems for long-duration energy storage and distributed hydrogen production. Fourier’s approach combines lithium-ion batteries for short-duration needs with hydrogen storage for longer durations, packaged into a single…
- 596Willie Phillips, Former FERC Chairman: The Grid Is America's Economic Nervous System25 Aug 2026 · 48 min▶Show page
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Willie Phillips is the former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and now a partner at Holland & Knight . During his time at FERC, Phillips helped lead major reforms to transmission planning and the electric grid’s interconnection process. He now advises the companies and utilities he once…
- 595Aalo Atomics on Beating the Odds to Reach Criticality18 Aug 2026 · 45 minReach▶Show page
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Yasir Arafat is the co-founder and CTO of Aalo Atomics , a company developing factory-manufactured modular nuclear power plants designed for AI data centers. Before founding Aalo, Yasir led the MARVEL microreactor program at Idaho National Laboratory. In this episode of Inevitable, Yasir explains how Aalo became one…
- 594How Overstory Cuts Outages and Wildfire Risk for Utilities11 Aug 2026 · 46 min▶Show page
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Fiona Spruill is CEO of Overstory , a company helping electric utilities reduce power outages and wildfire risk using satellite imagery, aerial data, and AI-powered vegetation intelligence. Since joining as employee number 10 and later stepping into the CEO role, Spruill has helped Overstory evolve from a vegetation…
- 593Turning Unused Home Power into a Controllable Resource with SPAN4 Aug 2026 · 38 minArch Rao▶Show page
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Arch Rao is Founder and CEO of SPAN , the company behind the smart electrical panel that has expanded into utility grid management with SPAN Edge and distributed AI infrastructure with XFRA . What began as a smarter way to manage home electricity has evolved into a platform designed to digitize the electric grid,…
- 592Faster, Safer, Cheaper: How TerraFirma Is Rebuilding Construction28 Jul 2026 · 44 min▶Show page
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Noah Schochet is the co-founder and CEO of TerraFirma , a construction technology company rethinking how infrastructure gets built. Founded by two former SpaceX engineers, TerraFirma combines robotics, remote operations, and software into a construction business that performs projects directly rather than selling…
- 591Prefabricated Nuclear Power Plants with Blue Energy21 Jul 2026 · 51 minAt One VenturesEngine VenturesVXI Capital▶Show page
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Jake Jurewicz is the Co-founder and CEO of Blue Energy , a nuclear power plant developer. Blue Energy starts with proven, light water reactors and builds everything around them, prefabricating standardized nuclear plants as massive modules in shipyards and fab yards, then barging them to site. It pairs that with a…
- 590Koloma's Bet on Buried Hydrogen for Farmers14 Jul 2026 · 49 minBreakthrough EnergyKhosla VenturesPete Johnson▶Show page
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Pete Johnson , Co-founder and CEO of Koloma , joins Inevitable to break down geologic hydrogen, naturally occurring hydrogen found deep underground, and why he believes it could be the first new primary energy source since nuclear power in the 1950s. Koloma has raised more than $400 million from Khosla Ventures,…
- 589How Mainspring Energy Turns Fuel Into Power Without Combustion7 Jul 2026 · 30 min▶Show page
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Shannon Miller is Co-founder and President of Mainspring Energy , a company developing a new category of power generation technology called the linear generator. Mainspring’s systems generate electricity through a low-temperature, flameless chemical reaction that converts fuel directly into electrical power. Shannon…
- 588The Electric Motorcycle That's Actually a Utility Company with Zeno23 Jun 2026 · 42 minMichael Spencer▶Show page
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Michael Spencer is the Founder and CEO of Zeno , an electric mobility company building electric motorcycles, battery-swapping infrastructure, and distributed energy systems across East Africa. Drawing on experience from nearly a decade building businesses in East Africa and four years at Tesla during its hypergrowth…
- 587Space Solar: 24/7 Clean Power with Overview Energy16 Jun 2026 · 51 min▶Show page
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Marc Berte is the Co-founder and CEO of Overview Energy , a startup developing space-based solar power systems designed to turn existing solar farms into around-the-clock power generators. By placing satellites in geosynchronous orbit, collecting near-continuous sunlight, and beaming energy back to Earth as safe…
- 586The Domestic Premium: Can American Manufacturing Compete?10 Jun 2026 · 37 minEdward Shenderovich▶Show page
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Edward Shenderovich is the Founder and CEO of Roebling , a software platform that helps industrial companies evaluate, design, and finance manufacturing projects before breaking ground. After initially setting out to solve bottlenecks in biomanufacturing, Shenderovich and his team uncovered a broader challenge: the…
- 585Collapsing 30 Feet of Power Infrastructure Into Four with DG Matrix27 May 2026 · 50 minEngine Ventures▶Show page
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Haroon Inam is Co-founder and CEO of DG Matrix , a company that makes the world's most compact Power Router, aggregating distributed energy for GenAI datacenters, microgrids, fleet electrification, and associated systems. As AI workloads drive unprecedented electricity demand and legacy grid infrastructure struggles…
- 584Lessons from Peter Carlsson after the Rise and Fall of Northvolt19 May 2026 · 37 minPeter Carlsson▶Show page
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Peter Carlsson is Co-founder and former CEO of Northvolt, the European battery manufacturing company that raised more than $13 billion to build a homegrown battery supply chain for Europe, before filing for bankruptcy at the end of 2024. Before Northvolt, Carlsson spent more than a decade at Ericsson building global…
- 583New Mexico's $72B Bet on Clean Energy13 May 2026 · 55 min▶Show page
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Rob Black is Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Economic Development Department , and Bruce Brown is Head of Strategic Climate Initiatives at the New Mexico State Investment Council , the state’s $72B sovereign wealth fund. Together, they are driving one of the most ambitious state-level strategies in the U.S. to…
- 582From Cars to Grid: Moment Energy Reinvents Energy Storage with Repurposed Batteries6 May 2026 · 52 minEvok Innovations▶Show page
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Eddy Chiang is Co-founder and CEO of Moment Energy , a company building commercial-scale energy storage systems from repurposed electric vehicle batteries. By testing, certifying, and remanufacturing second-life battery modules, Moment Energy is creating lower-cost alternatives to new lithium-ion storage while…
- 581Why This Winter's Snowpack Collapsed with Joel Gratz of OpenSnow28 Apr 2026 · 47 min▶Show page
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Joel Gratz is Founding Meteorologist and CEO of OpenSnow , a weather platform used by hundreds of thousands of skiers, snowboarders, and outdoor enthusiasts to track snow conditions and forecast powder days. What started as a text thread among friends has grown into a profitable, bootstrapped business combining expert…
- 580Turning Students into Founders at Stanford Climate Ventures15 Apr 2026 · 1h 6m▶Show page
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Dave McColl is Executive Director of Stanford Climate Ventures (SCV) , a program designed to help students build climate companies through rigorous go-to-market strategy and hands-on company building. SCV is a project-based course at Stanford University that has helped launch dozens of startups across energy,…
- 579Improving Weather Forecasting with WindBorne7 Apr 2026 · 38 minJohn Dean▶Show page
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John Dean is Co-Founder and CEO of WindBorne , a company building next-generation weather balloons and an AI-powered forecasting layer to improve global weather prediction. WindBorne’s balloons can stay aloft for weeks, collecting critical atmospheric data across oceans and remote regions where traditional weather…
- 578Alex Blumberg on Turning Buildings into Grid Assets with DaisyChain Energy1 Apr 2026 · 39 minAlex Blumberg▶Show page
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Alex Blumberg is Co-founder and CEO of DaisyChain Energy , a company building a hardware-enabled software platform that turns commercial buildings into flexible grid assets. Best known as the founder of Gimlet Media and co-creator of Planet Money , Blumberg’s second venture focuses on solving one of the most…
- 577Inside Rockefeller's Big Bet: The Global Energy Alliance with Ashvin Dayal17 Mar 2026 · 49 minRockefeller Foundation▶Show page
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Ashvin Dayal is Senior Vice President for Power and Climate at the Rockefeller Foundation , where he oversees the Global Energy Alliance (GEA), a multi-billion-dollar initiative backed by the Rockefeller Foundation, the IKEA Foundation, and the Bezos Earth Fund to expand access to clean, reliable electricity…
- 576Turning Wasted Renewable Power into AI Compute with Rune17 Feb 2026 · 39 min▶Show page
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William Layden is Co-founder and CEO at Rune , a company building modular, behind-the-meter micro data centers that plug directly into solar and wind plants. These units operate on a fully electric, DC-to-DC architecture, bypassing the traditional grid and unlocking new economics for compute at renewable energy sites.…
- 575Turning AI Data Centers Into Grid Allies with Emerald AI10 Feb 2026 · 38 min▶Show page
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Varun Sivaram is Founder and CEO of Emerald AI , a company building software that makes AI data centers power flexible. As AI data centers become one of the fastest-growing sources of electricity demand, grid constraints are emerging as a critical bottleneck for compute deployment. In this episode, the conversation…
- 574Why Climate Jobs Aren't Enough Anymore3 Feb 2026 · 46 min▶Show page
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Eugene Kirpichov is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Work on Climate , a global community helping professionals take action on climate across industries and disciplines. Originally created to help people transition into climate-related careers, the organization is now evolving toward a deeper goal: empowering…
- 573Autonomous Wildfire Suppression with Seneca27 Jan 2026 · 54 min▶Show page
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Stu Landesberg is Co-founder and CEO of Seneca , a company developing autonomous aerial systems to detect and suppress wildfires before they grow out of control. Designed for rapid initial response, Seneca’s technology deploys robotic aircraft that launch within minutes, helping protect homes, infrastructure, and…
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