Gia Schneider
Co-founder & CCO, Natel Energy. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Schneider co-founded Natel Energy in 2009 to build fish-safe, sustainable hydropower turbines designed to generate renewable electricity without destroying river ecosystems. Earlier in her career, she helped launch the carbon emissions trading desk at Credit Suisse and worked in energy strategy at Constellation Energy and Accenture.
1shows
1appearances
19statements
13resolved
9supported
2contradicted
69%fully supported
Everything Gia Schneider said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Schneider: A Snow-Free Sierra Nevada May Be Only a Decade Away
“And I think that the urgency around those reservoirs has increased as some of the science has become more clear that the prospect of a snow-free Sierra is something that unfortunately is probably not hundreds of years away, but is, you know, something again th…”
Schneider: Scaling hydro requires shifting from megaprojects to distributed projects
“The way in which we're going to increase capacity is, we firmly believe, A shift that moves away from just building megaprojects, and instead looks at building projects that are more distributed in nature, and, which means smaller by moving to smaller projects…”
Schneider: Dam ecological impact depends on water flow design, not size
“That again, as we've dug into this more, is that there, it does, it seems very clear as you dig into the science around the fact that there are small dams that have major negative impacts. It's not a size thing. You could have big dams, you could have small da…”
Schneider: Natel's hydro turbine blades achieve over 99% fish safety
“And those two things basically, you know, create a turbine blade that has now been shown many times over to be greater than 99% safe for fish passage.”
Schneider: Hydro and gas dispatch in parallel across US power markets
“If you looked last summer in the United States, in every power market where you have hydro and you've, you pulled up the dispatch curve, the daily dispatch curve of assets in a particular ISO, what you'd see is if you have hydro and you have gas, Hydro and gas…”
Schneider: Aswan Dam Lost Hydropower Productivity Due to Rapid Silt Buildup
“In the Aswan example, for example, there's so much silt moving in the river, that, that, you know, a side effect of that dam is that it rapidly, unfortunately, became a lot less productive as a hydropower asset because it filled up with silt, and there wasn't …”
Schneider: High costs restrict hydrokinetic power to niche applications
“What we've generally seen is that hydrokinetic is, makes sense in very certain specific applications, but it's been hard to get costs to the point where it's as broadly applicable as we'd love it to be.”
Schneider: Aridification will force some hydro facilities to downsize or close
“There absolutely will be cases like that where it doesn't make sense anymore. There are places, unfortunately, geographically, where there's a clear drying and a ratification trend that Over some time period will mean that, you know, an existing hydro facility…”
Schneider: Reintroducing Beavers Restores Perennial Stream Flow via Groundwater Recharge
“Projects that have been done to reintroduce beaver into streams that are going dry every year in the summer, and once beaver are reintroduced, you have re-perennialized flow. Again, that's just simply a matter of getting, having water sit on the landscape for …”
Schneider: Global operating hydropower capacity is roughly 1.3 terawatts
“Today we have about 1.3 terawatts of installed operating hydropower. And that represents about the it's the majority of renewable energy produced in the world today. It's the third largest source of electricity after natural gas and coal.”
Schneider: Majority of Global Rivers Suffer Mild to Severe Disruption
“At the end of the day the majority of our rivers globally, unfortunately, are heavily modified and in exist in a state of severe, you know, mild to severe disruption and disconnection.”
Schneider: 2022 was a strong hydro year due to Pacific Northwest output
“Hydro, despite the West being in an overall drought, it was a pretty great year for hydropower, and it was because the conditions for hydro in the Pacific Northwest were solid, and those assets were able to, were, you know, played a critical role, frankly, in …”
Schneider: California Overdraws One Million Acre-Feet of Groundwater Annually
“At the end of the day, water in the ground for the last, for all of California's recent history, actually going back decades, ground, we have had a net draft on groundwater pretty much every year of something like a million acre feet a year.”
Schneider: Natel Energy is considering hydro upgrade projects exceeding one gigawatt
“Probably the largest project we're contemplating right now would be over a gigawatt, where there's many you know, we're talking, you know, you're talking 10, a lot of these bigger hydro projects have, particularly the run of river ones, where again, you can ha…”
Schneider: ~130 GW of global hydropower will turn over within a decade
“There's something like a 130 gigawatts or so of hydro that is going to turn over here in the next decade, and i.e. Existing operating assets need new, new equipment real opportunity to make sure that those plants Stay online.”
Schneider: The infrastructure bill allocated ~$2.5B for hydropower upgrades and development
“So yes, I think in the infrastructure bill, which was passed two years ago, there was a very big chunk of money directly for upgrading hydro and making various improvements and in, in, in existing hydro as well as advancing development. Something like two and …”
Schneider: Pacific Northwest dams powered US WWII aircraft manufacturing
“If you look at when a lot of the big dams were constructed in the Pacific Northwest they coincided with completion in the early, like, late thirties, early forties, and that really let, you know, put us in a position actually entering World War II where we had…”
Schneider: Historic US Rivers Were Naturally Filled With Beaver Dams and Logjams
“In the U.S., if you were to rewind the clock several hundred years, what you would have found in the U.S. Is a landscape full of rivers, full of obstructions, but those obstructions were things like naturally occurring log jams and beaver dams, and they could …”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Gia's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 CATALYSTLEDGER | Co-founder & CCO, Natel Energy | 1 | 19 | 69% 9/13 | full record on Catalyst → |