Climate Proofers Mishal Thadani On The Business of Grid Resilience
There's no two ways about it: the US power grid is in poor shape.
Wildfires, floods, and hurricanes continue to harry electric utilities and take down grid infrastructure, all while the country is rushing frantically to build out additional capacity to meet the energy demands of the AI craze.
How can power providers expand and build resilience against extreme weather shocks at the same time β without blowing the bank?
Getting access to better data and risk modeling would be a good start.
Rhizome is a pioneer in the buzzy grid resilience tech market, and is already working with a clutch of big-name utilities to help them analyze and guard against climate-related risk.
On this episode, the company's CEO and Co-Founder β Mishal Thadani β takes us through his journey from wind and solar energy to the resilience space, and offers his perspectives on one of the hottest niches in adaptation tech today.
He also shares stories from the field: from Texas utilities swapping wooden poles for steel to Northeast operators raising substations above floodwaters.
He also reveals what's driving utilities to finally treat resilience as a core business function, and how his company is helping them stretch billions in adaptation spending further.
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