Voltus: Gregg Dixon
History of the grid, how EVs will become key energy storage devices, crypto energy demand, electricity crises in Texas & California, how the Trump administration wasn’t so bad for cleantech and more!
Fellow Climate Warriors,
This episode I drink ☕️ spiked Americano with Gregg Dixon, Co-founder and CEO of Voltus.
Join us as we discuss the history of the U.S. grid, how EVs will become key energy storage devices, crypto energy demand, Climate Tech Aid and the original cleantech battle of the bands, the electricity crises in Texas & California, how the Trump administration wasn’t so bad for cleantech after all and oh so much more!
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
Gregg Dixon, Co-founder and CEO of Voltus on what the US grid looks like in 10 years:
“The grid is a decarbonized, decentralized, and digitized network taking full advantage of the network effects that we all enjoy in a modern technology stack.” -Gregg Dixon, Co-founder and CEO of Voltus
Gregg Dixon (@gregg_dixon) is the Co-founder and CEO of Voltus (@voltusinc), connecting customers, investors, teammates, and the world with Voltus value, ensuring that the vision for the company, and its culture, is meeting their expectations. Gregg is a world-renowned expert in commercial and industrial energy management and has pioneered many of today’s innovations that unlock the economic and environmental benefits of “intelligent energy.” Prior to co-founding Voltus, Gregg was the Senior VP of Marketing and Sales and a founding executive at EnerNOC, a leading provider of demand response, energy procurement, and energy intelligence software.
🍹 What we drank during the episode: ☕️ spiked Americano
Enjoy the show!
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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🐣 Baileys
🐣 Enel X
🐣 Crypto 4 Climate Group: email m@climatetechcocktails.com
🐣 Nest
🐣 Tesla
🐣 Visa
🐣 Rivian
🐣 Apeel
People/places/things mentioned during the episode
🧠Jerry Maguire--bees can smell fear
🧠Johnny Cash--I’ve Been Everywhere
🧠Sixth Assessment Report--IPCC
🧠Lighting the 1893 World’s Fair
🧠Book: AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
🧠Ford, Edison and the Cheap EV that Almost Was
🧠Jimmy Carter White House Solar Panels
🧠Book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
-TIMESTAMPS-
[0:00] Intro
[1:30] Drink of the show
[3:30] Childhood & love of nature
[5:00] Early career
[6:00] Home studio love of music
[7:30] Climate tech aid
[10:30] History of the grid & EVs
[15:00] Our reliance on electricity
[20:00] Crypto electricity consumption and Crypto 4 Climate Group (C4CG)
[23:30] Entrepreneurial journey
[28:30] Trump administration and cleantech
[30:30] Gregg’s path to cleantech
[34:30] What Voltus does
[41:30] Potential energy storage capacity of EVs and thermostats in the U.S.
[46:00] Challenge of ceding control over your thermostat
[48:00] Electricity crises in Texas and California
[54:20] What the grid looks like in 10 years
[55:30] 3 founders Gregg loves
[59:00] Shilling sponsorships of Climate Tech Aid
[1:01:00] Conclusion