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!

📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉

Voltus has 35+ open roles, including 11 engineering, 6 ops and 5 marketing positions!  

Interested? Check out the job opportunities HERE! 

Please see below about the newest podcast episode and keep an eye out for upcoming CTC Happy HourS in Denver + Austin!  

Thank you for your continued support, and keep up the good fight with a cool beverage in hand.

⚡️ New to CTC? Sign up here!👉

📲 Follow us on Twitter 👉

📝  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!

Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack.

Interested in sponsoring? 

Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.com

Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🐣 Flow Hive

🐣 Philz Coffee

🐣 Baileys

🐣 Redwood Empire Whiskey

🐣 Enel X

🐣 Climate Tech Aid

🐣 Clean Energy for America

🐣 General Electric

🐣 Crypto 4 Climate Group: email m@climatetechcocktails.com

🐣 Nest

🐣 Google

🐣 Tesla

🐣 National Grid

🐣 Visa

🐣 Ford Electric Truck

🐣 Rivian

🐣 Apeel

🐣 The North Face

🐣LinkedIn

People/places/things mentioned during the episode

🧠Jerry Maguire--bees can smell fear

🧠Bethlehem, NH

🧠Mount Washington

🧠Maine’s Finger Lakes

🧠Johnny Cash--I’ve Been Everywhere

🧠Andrew Shapiro

🧠Sixth Assessment Report--IPCC

🧠Book: The Grid

🧠AC/DC: The Tesla-Edison Feud

🧠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

🧠Pearl Street Station

🧠Ryan Kushner

🧠The Man in the Arena

🧠Theodore Roosevelt

🧠Neil Chatterjee

🧠FERC Order No. 2222

🧠Jimmy Carter White House Solar Panels

🧠John B. Hess

🧠Hess MicroGen

🧠Texas Winter Storm 2021

🧠Oprah Winfrey

🧠Doug Tomkins

🧠Reid Hoffman

🧠Veery Maxwell

🧠Tim Woodward

🧠Book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

🧠Robert Cialdini

-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