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Shortening the nuclear development cycle from decades to years
- ▶ 8:38 News Broadcaster The Tennessee Valley Authority, Google, and California-based 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:12 Mike Laufer We actually concluded that, yeah, we, we can do this, and so, uh, we were kind of working through this process, and in parallel working on the commercial side, and so we have a really exciting announcement that we just had, uh, with TVA… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:07 Mike Laufer Yeah, so I'll kind of go back to the context of our agreement with Google. 2 times in the scene
Building Fervo's geothermal giant
- ▶ 11:25 Sarah Jewett And so we ended up, you know, landing Google for that contract, and Google said, we are also not going to put anything at risk, but in the event that you end up producing electrons from this system, we will pay you for those electrons. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:12 Lara Pierpoint You've got an off-take agreement with Google.
- ▶ 29:22 Sarah Jewett Tech companies about these projects, and I am sort of saying beyond Google, because Google we've remained in close discussions with, and we've signed another power purchase agreement with Google in Nevada.
Pioneering one of the first IRA tax credit transfers
- ▶ 4:59 Chris Taylor My entire career has been trying to do, build something new, whether it's a new initiative in a big company like I did at Google, or being part of, like, the first wave of wind development in the United States.
- ▶ 17:33 Chris Taylor I did a lot of tax credit investing at Google and before, and obviously the Goldman Sachs team knows a thing or two about this, but it was new, and none of us had ever done it before with batteries.
The ‘third inning’ of the energy transition [partner content]
- ▶ 1:47 Tom Burton & Silas (Sales) Braga We've seen the fits and starts, you know, the ups and downs, like any industry, you know, I, I like to remind people that back in 2000, many pundits said the internet was dead, you know, and that was around the time I think Google, um,…
- ▶ 32:03 Tom Burton & Silas (Sales) Braga I am, and I think you, you've seen, uh, each of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft over the last several months step into, um, really unique, uh, energy innovation as, as they've contracted with, um, you know, large scale and, and in, in most… 2 times in the scene
Why concentrated solar couldn’t compete
- ▶ 12:53 John Woolard So we had been in dialogue with, with Google before this about a, call it a modest participation in tax equity to start to learn. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:47 Lara Pierpoint So you have now Google and NRG providing tax equity financing.
Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far
- ▶ 10:56 Jigar Shah Like the clean transition tariff that Google just signed with Fervo Energy and Envy Energy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:47 Stephen Lacey A few weeks before that, Fervo and Envy Energy signed a 115 megawatt deal with Google. 4 times in the scene
Avoiding mistakes from the first smart meters
- ▶ 5:51 Mike Phillips So, and by wrong architecture, look, back to my telecom example, imagine if the way Google Maps on your phone worked is your phone would collect 15 minute interval data of your location, send it up, ah, in batches to, to your telecom… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:30 Mike Phillips So we actually have someone coming from, was leading these efforts at Google is going to be joining us shortly as an advisor for the company.
AI-fueled geothermal and ‘the edge of the possible’
- ▶ 2:29 Stephen Lacey Bill has founded a lot of companies, including Picasa, a photo management product that was acquired by Google, and Evolution Robotics, which merged with iRobot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:51 Andrew Beebe I was reading something funny about AI where a researcher was saying, look, in AI research, once it goes out of research and starts getting used in the real world, it's no longer called AI, it's just called software, you know, and so Siri,…
Energy is now the ‘primary bottleneck’ for AI
- ▶ 11:11 Brian Janous So early in the two, you know, 2010 time frame, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, you know, they, they maybe all had a few hundred megawatts of data center capacity.
- ▶ 21:52 Brian Janous And my response to that is, well, then Meta or Microsoft or Google will plug in twice as many chips.
The news quiz episode!
- ▶ 22:29 Stephen Lacey Excess renewables, uh, and Google's carbon aware computing, specifically for demand response, which they have dispatched in Europe and in the Midwest. 2 times in the scene
Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
- ▶ 38:58 Brandon Hurlbut Well, he gave, he extended the one for Google.
An influx of EVs. Surging peaks. Can AI help?
- ▶ 19:39 David Groarke Yeah, it, it's a great question, and you, and you're right, the, you know, Google estimates that 15% of their load growth is, uh, going to be AI or is AI right now, right?
- ▶ 30:47 Apoorv Bhargava And I don't think that I'm going to go build a better thermostat than Nest. 2 times in the scene
Inside Apple’s failed car program
- ▶ 25:15 Mark Gurman And so placing those people in very important areas like generative AI, which is at the very core of what you're seeing from NVIDIA and Meta and Google and Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, you name it. 2 times in the scene
The achilles heel of AI in the power system: data
- ▶ 1:32 Titian Palazzi You can't ask questions across the enterprise, and Snowflake is a data cloud platform, and we sit on top of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, helping companies to bring all their data together to then create value out of it.
Virtual power plants: the ‘sandwich’ for the grid
- ▶ 13:27 Jen Downing Uh, you know, lots of hardware players are, are getting involved here like Google Nest or Ecobee.
How AI is rapidly advancing new materials for clean energy
- ▶ 25:39 Stephen Lacey Google DeepMind is, um, using artificial intelligence for materials exploration, testing the stability of materials. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 Greg Mulholland Um, when you look at, take the Google example, um, with the, the, I believe they call it Genome Project, which is, um, its materials project at Berkeley coupled with Google at DeepMind, or DeepMind at Google, they discovered 380,000 or so… 3 times in the scene
The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
- ▶ 11:15 Maria Gallucci And late last month, uh, Fervo and Google successfully started operating a first-of-its-kind power plant in Nevada using these advanced, uh, geothermal techniques. 2 times in the scene
How to triple renewables by 2030
- ▶ 16:45 Stephen Lacey I mean, and speaking of which, uh, Fervo and, and Google just announced this week that, that, um, two of the, the wells that they financed in Nevada are operational, and they're using horizontal drilling techniques to, um,
AI in the real world: Solar forecasting, EVs, and virtual power plants
- ▶ 6:25 Stephen Lacey He was formerly a technical lead at Google's DeepMind, working on an internal wind forecasting service.
- ▶ 13:23 Stephen Lacey NVIDIA, DeepMind, and others are investing heavily in this area as well in an effort to speed up predictions at much higher resolutions.
For Microsoft, AI is an ‘unlock’ for decarbonization
- ▶ 24:53 Stephen Lacey Um, Microsoft, uh, uh, Google, and others have seen this massive spike in computing demand inside data centers, which ultimately, of course, has, uh, consequences for energy and
- ▶ 28:31 Stephen Lacey So Microsoft, Google, others are, you know, really putting themselves as AI first companies, and this is going to be really crucial to all the collaboration that you're doing with utilities and other energy companies.
Investors riff on the new era for climate investing
- ▶ 26:39 Mona El Naggar The other thing I would add to your list, which I completely agree with what you said, um, is that I think what we've seen a lot is some very smart, you know, former Google engineers who can write an amazing piece of software, um, but…
Why electric cars are driving the auto strikes
- ▶ 1:54 Katherine Hamilton Oh, Google it.
How AI is being used in energy, right now
- ▶ 0:18 Stephen Lacey Here's Google CEO Sundar Pichai in April. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:29 Stephen Lacey We make this show called Where the Internet Lives in partnership with Google. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:16 Savannah Goodman So the first is we're going to continue to develop innovative contracting structures that help Google, but also other consumers, uh, procure carbon-free energy at scale. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:34 Savannah Goodman So a lot of, what's really great about Google is we have the opportunity to incubate solutions internally, learn, you know, what works, what doesn't work, work out the kinks, and then bring it to market through our different platforms,…
- ▶ 42:34 Savannah Goodman So a lot of, what's really great about Google is we have the opportunity to incubate solutions internally, learn, you know, what works, what doesn't work, work out the kinks, and then bring it to market through our different platforms,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:00 Savannah Goodman We use tools like Google Earth and Earth Engine to help project developers, ah, site their new energy assets, and Google Earth is a open source free tool, and so we've actually seen a lot of adoption on the developer side.
- ▶ 46:25 Savannah Goodman At Google, we call them TEKS because we like to have wonky terminology. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:54 Savannah Goodman And that's why, you know, efforts, that's why AI and Google Cloud, those teams are working so closely together at Google, because you really need that digital transformation piece.
- ▶ 56:13 Savannah Goodman You know, when you put something in Google search, you obviously expect an immediate response.
- ▶ 1:02:08 Savannah Goodman I think one of the things we've learned at Google is jumping right to the, like, 10 X solution doesn't always work. 2 times in the scene
Why Texas Republicans are trying to crush wind and solar
- ▶ 9:46 Chris Tomlinson Major corporations like Facebook, Amazon, you know, Microsoft, Google, all coming to Texas, building, you know, signing power purchase agreements to support massive renewables development.
How will we power all those green factories?
- ▶ 0:30 Stephen Lacey Patrick Walsh, a general partner at National Grid Partners, and Savannah Goodman, the data and software climate solutions lead at Google.
- ▶ 12:51 Shalini Ramanathan The first is that data centers and a lot of the companies that operate data centers have been major buyers of green power, and because they have, you know, gigawatts of power purchase agreements, uh, many of them, you know, Google comes to…
Live: Is advanced nuclear ready for liftoff?
- ▶ 0:30 Stephen Lacey Patrick Walsh, a general partner at National Grid Partners, and Savannah Goodman, the data and software climate solutions lead at Google.
The Big Switch: California’s climate czar on banning gas cars
- ▶ 0:26 unnamed speaker It's a one day event, and we've got speakers from Google, National Grid Partners, the former head of DOE's Artificial Intelligence Office, and a ton of startups at the leading edge of this space, plus a workshop on chat GPT for energy, and…
From Drilled: The Boom
- ▶ 2:59 Amy Westervelt It ran tons of social media ads and videos that would pop up every time you searched Exxon Climate on Google.
What’s driving a surge in renewables opposition?
- ▶ 8:50 Miranda Green A quick Google search of Responsible Solar on Facebook or in Google will show you that there are dozens of websites using this nomenclature, using these talking points, but also linking back to each other, and we kind of followed that…
A new catalyst for the smart home: electrify everything
- ▶ 4:40 Stephen Lacey Even Google and Microsoft got in on the action and then shut down their energy dashboards when no one was using them.
- ▶ 4:54 Stephen Lacey Google Nest has sold eleven million of them.
The autonomous car bubble has popped
- ▶ 1:11 Stephen Lacey Tesla, General Motors, Lyft, Uber, Google's Waymo, they were all promising large fleets of robo-taxis with fully autonomous vehicles by the turn of the decade.
- ▶ 2:54 Ed Niedermeyer He'd been part of the Google self-driving car project before that became Waymo.
- ▶ 7:12 Stephen Lacey A decade ago, he got to drive in a car operated by Google's Waymo, and it totally shifted his perspective.
- ▶ 18:16 Ed Niedermeyer And, and so I think, you know, one of the things that happened was Google was very quietly working on this technology for a while, um, at a time when Google was the biggest player in, you know, Silicon Valley high tech. 4 times in the scene
A reality check on corporate sustainability
- ▶ 9:55 Stephen Lacey And then you've got Google, which is pioneering renewable energy procurement on an hourly basis in an attempt to match a hundred percent renewables on the grid for its operations.
The climate wild card: permafrost
- ▶ 9:26 Dr. Sue Natale I mean, you know, I mean, that just seems like quite an obvious thing, but if you think about a satellite, you see imagery you've seen, you know, if you look at, if you go to Google Earth, you know, if you look around the imagery of the…
The hidden history of California oil
- ▶ 1:03 Alexandria Herr So, I'm going to show you this Google Earth image.
- ▶ 3:18 Stephen Lacey It's, it's like a Google Street image.
- ▶ 11:26 Dr. David Gonzalez And, uh, got on the phone with my dad, and we found the neighborhood on Google Maps, and, uh, when we look at the address, uh, with the redlining data, it turns out it was 2 times in the scene
How bitcoin is keeping zombie power plants alive
- ▶ 9:34 Stephen Lacey So we're sitting here talking on a Google Meet call.
- ▶ 9:51 Brian Kahn You know, when it comes to these big tech companies, like Google, for example, like they want to get to net zero. 2 times in the scene
Your ‘carbon footprint’ is a marketing ruse
- ▶ 12:28 Stephen Lacey I'm going to Google carbon footprint and see what comes up to see how pervasive this is. 2 times in the scene