Rhizome

We're thrilled to welcome Tyler Langenbrunner, who has joined Rhizome full-time! For the better part of this year, Tyler has been working with us as a contractor to help build out our web application and streamline our internal development processes. Tyler's passion, attention to detail, and contribution to company culture are a few of the many reasons we're excited to officially bring him on board. Tyler is based in Oakland, California, and in addition to being a phenomenal engineer, is a pickle ball coach in his spare time. It goes without saying that we're looking forward to the many Rhizome pickleball tourneys ahead!

Texas recently greenlit a grid resiliency plan, further proving that keeping the grid going is a bipartisan issue. Preparedness and resiliency go hand in hand, and having the most innovative technologies in the toolbox to simulate pressures and vulnerabilities creates a huge advantage and switches from playing defense against grid issues to playing offense. Senior Reporter at Utility Dive, Robert Walton, covers the approved grid resiliency plan this week, underscoring the importance of having a detailed plan and embracing intelligent technologies: https://lnkd.in/eT9vGwtb

Our team had a wonderful time learning from experts from all corners of the wildfire safety ecosystem at Convective Capital's Red Sky Summit, including fire chiefs, community organizations, local governments, and utilities . Of course, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the amazing technology companies present from their portfolio including (but not limited to!) Pano AI, Overstory, BurnBot, XyloPlan. We're proud to be in the family –– special thanks to Bill Clerico, Jay Ribakove, and Amy Brown for making it all happen. It seems as though every year we become better equipped at fighting wildfires, can't wait to check in on progress at the next one!

An aging power grid, combined with new pressures brought on by data center demands, EV charging expansion, and the rise of climate change, makes planning for grid resilience paramount. These pressures will continue to compound, but AI and other cutting edge technologies can help utilities keep the lights on by identifying vulnerabilities before they cause outages. Amy Jaffe, contributor at The Wall Street Journal, provides a great overview here: https://lnkd.in/e7pcYFgx

The future of the grid is happening right now. Next week is a big week for innovation in climate and grid resilience. Rhizome will be attending the following events: - 2024 NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference https://lnkd.in/gcMQAScV November 10th - 13th in Anaheim - Red Sky Summit, presented by Convective Capital https://redskysummit.com/ November 12th in San Francisco - Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Innovation Summit 2024, presented by DISTRIBUTECH https://lnkd.in/gDeQdniz November 13th in San Jose Looking forward to collaborating with industry leaders to tackle the world’s most pressing challenge: how we weather the impacts of climate change. Comment below if we’ll see you at any of these events! #RedSkySummit #UtilityInnovation #GridReliability

We’re excited to share that?Rahul Dubey will be presenting a demo for Rhizome at EPRI?Incubatenergy? Labs Demo Day 2024! Uniting the brightest minds and leaders in the energy industry to drive the future of #electrification, #decarbonization, and #gridmodernization, Demo Day is a leading event in the global energy transformation and we’re looking forward to being part of it this year. If you’re in the Tucson area and would like to connect, let us know! #IELDemoDay24

According to a recent report, increased wildfire risk has contributed to nearly 100 utility company credit downgrades since 2020. These lower credit ratings have made it much more difficult for utilities to borrow money while insurance and wildfire mitigation costs have increased, causing a threat to utilities’ financial stability. We hope to continue to see that public policy and utility-led wildfire mitigation efforts are effective in reducing these risks. Our wildfire risk mitigation platform, gridFIRM, makes proactive wildfire mitigation possible. Resilience is stability, and it’s more important now than ever before. Read more here:?https://lnkd.in/dSWxCVXp #WildfireMitigation #Utilities

For the fourth time, the Cuban power grid has collapsed as Hurricane Oscar arrives. Millions of residents are left impacted, facing days without power as multiple attempts to restore much of the nation's electric grid have failed. As climate disasters of all varieties intensify, our power grid is seeing a greater number of costly outages. As hurricane season continues, we must continue to work to harden the grid against growing extreme weather threats. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gV6EW4ky #PowerGrid #GridResilience #Hurricanes

We're excited to be included in Cleantech Group's Cleantech 50 to ??! Broadly, Cleantech Group has done an amazing job digging into the resilience and adaptation technologies, here are a few others we're proud to share the list space with: phagos ThinkLabs AI, Inc. Super Bamboo Ltd. IONATE #cleantech #resilience #adaptation #ai #gridoptimization

Wonderful writeup from Eshaan Mani at Harvard Tech Review on our climate resilience work in the power sector!