Sustainability Will Remain the Focus

Leadership in the government has changed, as have governing policies.

But sustainability will continue to be a focus of the evolving electric and energy sector,

said Drew Murphy, the CEO of Trio, a strategic advisory firm to large energy companies.

Trio was launched 9 years ago by Edison International, one of the nation’s largest

utilities, where Murphy was Senior Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development &

Sustainability.

Trio helps customers of big energy companies and utilities navigate the energy

transition.

He talked with the U.S. Department of Energy Grid Talk podcast which has conducted far

ranging conversations with more than 100 thought leaders in the energy and sustainability

sector. The podcast, at energy.gov/gridtalk has been downloaded more than 100,000 times

across the United States and around the world. It is available on all major podcast platforms.

“There will be reversals, there will be set-backs; there will be things where we’ve moved

down one path and then that stops so you have to move down another,” Murphy told

Grid Talk, the U.S. Department of Energy podcast.

“That seems to be the case often but overall, the technological advancement that we’ve

seen over the last 20 years … technology is driving forward and that is something that I

think will continue,” he said.

“Sustainability and energy will continue to go hand-in-hand and we’re going to see this

move forward,” Murphy said. “The renewable and the clean energy business is nothing

if not constantly evolving and changing.”