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Charlotte Johnson

GM of Generation Flex, Kraken · 1 appearance on the record.

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She leads Kraken’s Generation Flex division, orchestrating software and AI optimization for renewable energy, battery storage, and commercial facilities. She previously worked at energy-tech startup Upside Energy, which was acquired by Octopus Energy Group in 2020 to form Kraken's flexibility platform.

9statements → 7claims → 7claims resolved → 71%fully supported → 3.44/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential →

5 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Charlotte argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Johnson: Paying consumers to reduce demand costs 10x less than coal
“In the winter, customers can be paid to turn down electricity instead of ramping up coal, and it was proven that it costs 10 times less to turn down a customer than it does to ramp up coal.”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 6:19 The state of connected DERs [partner content]

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Charlotte Johnson: Great Britain is the world's second-largest battery market outside California
“GB outside of CAISO or outside of California is the kind of second largest, most mature battery market.”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 8:46 The state of connected DERs [partner content]

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Everything Charlotte Johnson said on Catalyst that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Johnson: Paying consumers to reduce demand costs 10x less than coal
“In the winter, customers can be paid to turn down electricity instead of ramping up coal, and it was proven that it costs 10 times less to turn down a customer than it does to ramp up coal.”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 6:19 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Assertion Partly supported
Johnson: Texas grid batteries earned 4x more revenue than UK in 2023
“A battery in Texas last year, and by battery I mean a grid scale sort of front of the meter asset, made over four times more than a battery in the GB market or the UK market, which is a huge difference.”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 8:27 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Grid connections take 1-2 years in Texas versus 15 in UK
“And it's also easier to get a grid connection in Texas than it is in many other parts of the world. I think it takes about one to two years. In the UK, it can take up to 15 years to get a grid connection.”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 9:30 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Insight
Johnson: Uniform national power pricing incentivizes building generation far from demand
“So a lot of countries around the world have the same price nationally, no matter where you are, which means people are incentivized then to locate in the place where they can get land or they can get a grid connection, which isn't necessarily the place where y…”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 16:40 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Insight
Johnson: Risk aversion is utilities' biggest barrier to faster modernization
“I think the biggest constraint is probably how risk averse they are because they're running a system. So they can't necessarily take the risks that retailers might take or asset owners or traders might take in the market.”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 2:56 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Only about 5% of global distribution networks are monitored
“And I think there's a really good study that I've read somewhere that basically says about five percent of distribution networks globally are monitored, which means a lot of distribution work networks have no idea what's really happening on their power lines b…”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 3:32 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Assertion Supported
Johnson: UK needs 200 GW of new flexible capacity by 2050
“The UK has a similar number that national gridders put out for, I think it's 20 50, which is around 200 gigawatts of dispatchable capacity. And that sounds huge. And when you think about the amount they have today, they've got about 50 to 60 gigawatts today. 8…”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 5:16 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Assertion Contradicted
Charlotte Johnson: Great Britain is the world's second-largest battery market outside California
“GB outside of CAISO or outside of California is the kind of second largest, most mature battery market.”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 8:46 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Assertion Supported
Johnson: One in three Australian homes have rooftop solar
“So if you take Australia, for example, where one in three homes have rooftop solar, I think that's about 20 gigawatts of solar, so a very similar solar install capacity to somewhere like Texas”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 6:54 The state of connected DERs [partner content]

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The state of connected DERs [partner content] Sep 24, 2024 13m
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