Over Our Heads

We're keeping the conversation in-house for this episode. Scott speaks with Pecan Street's Strategy and Communciations Director Colin Rowan about our rooftop solar research and the grid benefits of south vs west-facing solar panels.

This is episode two of the two-part series with AI expert Paul Navratil. Listen in for a deep dive on opportunities and limitations for AI technologies to accelerate the clean energy transition. Paul is the director of visualization at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

For this episode, Scott talks with Paul Navratil, who is the director of visualization at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. They talk about artificial intelligence and how it can be used to accelerate the clean energy transition... with the right data. Paul and Scott had a lot to talk about, so this is part one of a two-part series with Paul.

For today’s conversation, Scott talked to long-time Pecan Street partner Jon La Follett. Jon is a physicist by training who has worked for most of his career on advancing clean energy technologies while working for the Department of Defense and Shell New Energy Technologies. In his new role, he is working at the cutting edge of microgrid development with Houston-based startup Green Structure.

We’re kicking things off with a great interview with former Commissioner Neal Chatterjee of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or FERC as it’s known by energy wonks. We gave the commissioner a tour of our Austin lab and he sat down afterward with our Chief Technology Officer, Scott Hinson, to talk about how FERC commissioners approach their job and how research like what we do at Pecan Street fits into that.