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Jess Melanson

President & COO, Utilidata. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Jess Melanson is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Utilidata, where he oversees operations and distributed AI deployment to modernize electric grids. He previously led product teams at Tendril, managed clean energy development at PSEG, and served in senior policy roles in New Jersey state government.

What they said5 Shows1

Everything Jess Melanson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

GREEN BLUEPRINT Insight

Melanson: Hardware-defined grid investments are slower and more expensive than software updates

“What you end up doing is stacking a lot of hardware defined limited investments on top of each other. And you end up with a grid that's not Modernizing quick enough. It's expensive because ultimately in the bigger picture, that's a more expensive way to do thi…”

Jess Melanson Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 47:34 Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid?

GREEN BLUEPRINT Opinion

Melanson: Selling distributed AI to utilities is harder than executing the technology

“Selling distributed AI to utilities is harder than actually executing the AI because they, and everybody who sells and works with utilities knows that their historic incentives are not pro-innovation, not pro-software, not pro-future-proofing investments, and …”

Jess Melanson Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 46:49 Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid?

GREEN BLUEPRINT Prediction Not checkable as stated

Melanson: Deploying non-AI-ready assets on the power grid will become a non-starter

“Once we do, I think it's going to really be an exponential change, because this will just become the industry standard, and the paradigm will shift, and then everyone will say, well, why would I put an asset out on the grid that's not AI ready and smart? It'll…”

Jess Melanson Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 49:10 Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid?

GREEN BLUEPRINT Prediction Not checkable as stated

Melanson: Grid activity is inverting from bulk generation to edge infrastructure

“Historically, the action and the money and the competition was at the bulk part of the system, and so the last mile was sort of the sleepy last mile infrastructure. That's about to invert, where you have all this activity, you have mobile batteries, you have e…”

Jess Melanson Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 21:21 Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid?

GREEN BLUEPRINT Insight

Melanson: Grid AI requires orders of magnitude more data and compute

“So we need to now take the next step in investing, and that's not 10% more data capture processing power. That is orders of magnitude more data and processing power.”

Jess Melanson Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 24:24 Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid?

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jess's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER	President & COO, Utilidata	1	5	—	full record on the Green Blueprint →