Lara Pierpoint
Managing Director, Trellis Climate. On 2 shows, 56 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Pierpoint leads Trellis Climate, an impact-first catalytic capital program at Prime Coalition bridging the valley of death for first-of-a-kind climate projects. She previously served as Director of Technology Strategy at Exelon, was co-CEO of Actuate, and holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from MIT.
2shows
56appearances
47statements
30resolved
27supported
1contradicted
90%fully supported
4said about them ↓ Everything Lara Pierpoint said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Pierpoint: Venture capital is the superhero of the climate movement
“I think venture is the superhero of the climate movement, right? Like, venture steps up in ways that other capital allocators really are not”
Pierpoint: Many climate tech startups cut corners on pre-construction engineering
“When it comes to doing engineering studies and development work and everything that happens before you construct, a lot of folks cut corners and they don't want to spend a lot of time doing a huge amount of de-risking because there's a lot of binary risk in th…”
Pierpoint: 58% of Californians support keeping Diablo Canyon plant open
“I noted that this year, polling in my home state of California showed that 58% of Californians support keeping Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open, and that is very surprising. This has been a pretty staunchly anti-nuclear state for decades, I think, as folks wel…”
Pierpoint: Current transmission construction rates will delay net zero goals by decades
“At our current building rates, we'll overshoot our net zero goals by decades.”
Pierpoint: Clean crypto mining can function as a flexible grid resource
“If you're going to be making crypto, do it cleanly. And if you do it cleanly, that actually starts to become sort of interesting as a grid resource because there's a way to shift load into making crypto and you can make money when there's really high amounts o…”
Climate hard tech often targets inherently low-value markets
“The reality of what it takes to develop hard technologies and to commercialize them for markets that are inherently not crazy high-value markets all the time.”
IPCC 2°C global warming scenarios require carbon dioxide removal
“All of the scenarios modeled by the IPCC that keep climate change to two degrees or lower by the end of the century agree. In addition to decarbonizing, we're going to need CDR.”
Pierpoint: Alameda City Council shut down an atmospheric sea salt startup test
“In Alameda, just a year ago, there was a startup company that was releasing sea salt particles, or at least trying to, into the atmosphere. And it went real bad, real fast, and the city council effectively shut it down out of a lot of fear”
Pierpoint: Converting to all-electric HVAC doubled home utility costs over gas
“I definitely converted to all electric HVAC in my house, and now I pay almost twice as much as what we paid before on a gas-based system.”
WS Development poured the first commercial low-carbon concrete in history
“Yanni Sippis and his team were building the largest net zero office in Boston, and they were getting ready to pour a low-carbon version of concrete, one that had never been used in the entire history of commercial construction.”
Influential end customers drive heavy commodity supply chains to low-carbon tech
“This is true in commodities like steel and e-fuels because an influential end customer can push the rest of the chain to take a chance on a low-carbon product. It's definitely true here in Cement.”
Pierpoint: Advanced nuclear developers upsized reactor designs to 300MW+
“That's one of the big reasons that you saw this shift from like a whole bunch of folks that were really thinking like sub hundred megawatt reactor designs all the way up to 300 megawatts, and in some cases much higher than that.”
Pierpoint: US built only 386 miles of high-voltage transmission in 2021
“In the U.S., we have about 640,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines. Most of these were built in the fifties and sixties, and most of them are operating at full capacity. Last year, we built a grand 386 miles of new line, and our record for the last de…”
Pierpoint: California majority now favors keeping Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open
“And so for the first time in decades, you actually see more people Wanting to keep the Diablo Canyon plant open than wanting to close it.”
Pierpoint: Hydrogen is probably not going to power passenger vehicles
“I think we're all sort of in agreement that passenger vehicle transportation is
Probably not in the offing for hydrogen.”
Pierpoint: Commercial fleet electrification is the sweet spot for vehicle-to-grid
“And I think if you electrify fleets, that's really the sweet spot for vehicle to grid applications.”
Pierpoint: Carbon-to-value faces structural volume and pricing trade-offs
“And this has just always been a really tough space because the places where you have a lot of volume, like, you know, making cement you have really low commodity prices. So it's hard to get a good price for the carbon that you're capturing. And in places where…”
Pierpoint: Carbon credit buyers will increasingly demand permanence and clarity
“I think what's really gonna drive some of the carbon markets in the near term are a lot of the companies that are actually interested in buying credits, and when they do that, they want to see, I think they're increasingly going to want to see some level of pe…”
Pierpoint: Monetizing grid storage requires renewable-driven price volatility
“The problem is that electricity is cheap and batteries are operated intermittently, so making money on storage can be tricky if you don't have a lot of renewables that Produce significant price volatility.”
Pierpoint: California EVs could reach 5 million by 2030
“By 2030, the number of solar panels could nearly double, and the number of EVs on the road could increase five times to about five million.”
Pierpoint: The mid-2000s cleantech boom failed to disrupt electric utilities
“You know, I remember back in the mid 2000 during that, that clean tech boom that one of the buzzwords everyone kept using is disruption. And everybody was like, we're gonna go disrupt the electric utility industry, and well, now we're all pretty clear that tha…”
Pierpoint: US and France saw reverse nuclear learning curves unlike South Korea
“The truth is that when you look at the United States and you look at France, two of the places that have built the most reactors in the world, you see reverse learning curves, actually, when it comes to the cost of nuclear power. It actually increased over tim…”
Swiss Re projects global property risk pool will grow 33–41% by 2040
“Swiss Re, one of the companies that insures the insurers, Estimates that the global risk pool for property, driven largely by climate, will grow 33 to 41% by twenty-fourty.”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| CATALYSTLEDGER | Managing Director, Trellis Climate | 12 | 24 | 100% 14/14 | full record on Catalyst → |
 GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | Managing Director, Trellis Climatehost | 44 | 23 | 81% 13/16 | full record on the Green Blueprint → |