Morris: National lab report shows two terawatts in interconnection backlogs
Jesse Morris · Live: How AI could supercharge climate tech · Apr 12, 2023 · at 35:17
Jesse Morris highlights the severe grid interconnection backlog facing US renewable energy and storage projects.
0:00 / 0:13exact quote · 13.1s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“There's a report out today it was one of the national labs, I believe, published it. Two terawatts of backlogs, solar, wind, hydro, batteries, In interconnection backlogs. Two terawatts. And I think that's just transmission level.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Jesse Morris
Morris: Edge assets will reach 30-50% of grid capacity within 10 years
“And if you look at all of those assets, so all of these small scale assets, Those are really going to be the future of how we balance the grid in the next 10 years. They're going to account for anywhere between, like, 30 and 50% of total system capacity.”
Morris: Climate Action Will Fail Without Sector-Wide Digital Infrastructure
“From my opinion, if we don't, and the language I use about this, deploy digital infrastructure across all of these different sectors of the economy to help accelerate action against climate change, we will fail. We will not address climate change in a time fra…”
Morris: Very few Web3 or crypto startups sold real enterprise solutions
“In my experience, there were very few web three or crypto companies that were selling a solution to enterprises to solve a specific problem.”
Morris: Utilities cannot collect data on customers' EVs and solar systems
“I live in California. I'm one of those customers. I have a electric vehicle. We have a heat pump. We have solar system. My utility has no idea I have those assets. They don't have the ability to collect data on them, let alone run some AI based algorithm on th…”
Morris: Institutional friction will slow energy sector AI adoption
“So I think just institutional friction is going to be the thing that slows it down, just like with any other innovative technology.”
Morris: Building chatbot tool for electric utilities to configure DER software
“My, I was on the line with my CTO the other day, and we are now making a tool so that some of our customers, which are these electric utilities, Can use chatbots to configure software that lets them communicate with DER and procure services from them.”