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Utility filings are so deeply valuable for clean energy development and also... a bit painful to read. In this week's Halcyon blog post, I share some ways that climatetech companies can gain huge benefits from the two essential filings for intestor-owned utilities: ? Integrated Resource Plans and Rate Cases. ? At the end of the post, I begin to explore how you can work with a Large Language Model co-reader to get maximum useful information from these filings with minimum pain. There's more to come on that in Part II, next week! (Heartfelt thank you to Sharon Reishus, who has much, much more knowledge than I do on this topic, for editing.) https://lnkd.in/gQrAiZg8

When you’re in the trenches building, amazing things reveal themselves that you could never have foreseen at the outset.??? Life imitates art and all that. I have been hard at work creating a product/market fit course for climate software startups and along the way I found an incredible launch partner in Koray Parmaks from Carbon Zero Capital. ?? Koray, a Founder/CEO turned investor, and his partner Eric Tong, are putting $ from their exits into climate startups.?? Together, we are offering an invite-only bootcamp to help selected founders gain conviction on the path to Strong PMF.??♀??? ??At the end of the bootcamp, Carbon Zero Capital will make investments in bootcamp grads that meet their PMF criteria.?? Yes, for real. Our PMF bootcamp helps early stage stage climate founders hit their next milestones??: -> Progress $0-500k, $500k-3M ARR -> Increase % customers that truly love your product -> Patch your leaky bucket (funnel) -> Right-size your unit economics -> Raise your next round If you want to join the bootcamp or learn more, request access at https://lnkd.in/g3yrQQvi !!??

?? #ClimateTech friends! I'm excited to announce that I'll be sharing my story of how I came to be at @Halcyon and some of what we're up to at @The Engine Accelerator's Tough Tech Summit next week! ?? Along with some industry luminaries, I'll be presenting during the "Perspectives: Enlightening Talks" session from 11am-12pm next Wednesday Oct 9 at the Westin. ?? If you'll be in Boston next week and you're interested in learning about how we're using #AI to help solve some tough energy information problems, I'd love to chat here or drop me a line at [email protected] Check out the full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gQPwUbmW #ToughTechWeek

?? #ClimateTech friends! I'm excited to announce that I'll be sharing my story of how I came to be at @Halcyon and some of what we're up to at @The Engine Accelerator's Tough Tech Summit next week! ?? Along with some industry luminaries, I'll be presenting during the "Perspectives: Enlightening Talks" session from 11am-12pm next Wednesday Oct 9 at the Westin. ?? If you'll be in Boston next week and you're interested in learning about how we're using #AI to help solve some tough energy information problems, I'd love to chat here or drop me a line at [email protected] Check out the full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gQPwUbmW #ToughTechWeek

The One Where a Large Language Model Goes to Climate Week. Last week I (along with many thousands of you on LinkedIn) was in New York City for Climate Week. I've been attending for more than a decade, since it was a side show of the UN General Assembly. These days, it can feel like the main show, particularly for those working in energy and decarbonization. Any human attending the hundreds of separate events runs into the limits of time and space. It's impossible for any person to see more than a small fraction of the available talks, and see any but a tiny quantum of fellow travelers in town. We all operate in edit moment, and it can be frustrating to know what you're missing. But - this sort of scale is not a problem for a large language model. So, we sent one (so to speak) to Climate Week, and I wrote about it. Click through to see a bit of what I asked Halcyon to help me discover, and what I learned. Happy reading. https://lnkd.in/gexyqbkH

It's Climate Week in New York City. I've been coming here since it was an eye-glimmer, really, one of the many events organized alongside the United Nations General Assembly. Something to visit in between UN sessions, or after the Clinton Global Initiative (remember that?). These days, I know far more people who attend Climate Week for what it has become, and drop by a UN event on the side. It's a full, stuffed week of meetings, public and private, large and small, and a concentrated chance to see the people I need to (and want to) see in climate and decarbonization. I'll be all over the place, but you can find me tomorrow at Terrascope's event at The Nest Climate Campus along with Maya Hari, Felipe Daguila, Claire Perry O'Neill, and Nicolette Bartlett. So many other people and institutions I look forward to seeing: Andrew Beebe, Obvious Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, The Westly Group, Sierra Peterson, Sarah Sclarsic, Voyager Ventures, Daniel Firger, Charles Hua, Carlotta Saporito, Abe Tarapani, Lee Carter and many more. #climateweeknyc https://lnkd.in/gzZ7pBU3

Most people in Energy World agree that electricity demand is going way up, and we'd better build clean energy and transmission infrastructure fast, or disaster awaits. The number one driver of this growing demand: data centers. But what about the other fast-growing, 21st-century technology that uses a lot of power, EVs? Their electricity use is growing just as fast, yet they rarely receive the same scrutiny. In our latest blog post,?we use Halcyon to dive into the numbers, comparing the future impact of data centers vs. EVs on the grid: https://lnkd.in/gidxBYWV Check it out! If it resonates, let us know: - Do our future-looking numbers align with your predictions? - Are there other electricity drivers we should include alongside data centers and EVs? - How do you see data center vs. EV load growth affecting the grid differently?And what does that mean for your business? We want to have the conversation! And if you'd like to try a product that brings numbers and quotes to any energy question like this, let's talk. (Thanks to Jeff Fisher and Nat Bullard for editing and co-authorship.) The link, again: https://lnkd.in/gidxBYWV

When Bruce and I first discussed what Halcyon might become, he asked me "what information do you want?". I responded, "I want all of it". The answer was not really meant to be flip. It is our goal to ingest, format, de-duplicate, tag and format every iota of information that helps you make better energy transition and decarbonization decisions. But, you don't start with everything, and neither are we. Building a giant information catalog - and making sure it is useful! - is a rigorous process with a lot of controls. It is clean, it is limited, and it requires trusted sources as well as a trusted platform to integrate that information. Our founding engineer Alexander Huras calls this "narrowing the map". To put it another way: people want information, not the Internet. Building capability paradoxically means working within constraints, constraints that make a product, and a platform, stronger. More at the link: https://lnkd.in/gSehgSpP

The Run with the Sun 5k race was a blast this morning! ?? ?? What a perfect way to get the day started and get the energy up for RE+ 24. Thank you to everyone who participated! #REPlus24