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The Coming Electrification of Everything
At Obvious Ventures, we believe stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the…preferred method to power everything in our lives. From cars to scooters to boats to locomotives to industrial equipment, we are in the midst of a transition that will electrify everything previously driven by combustion. ¶ There are two simple reasons we’ll make this change sooner than most people think. First, electrically powered things just work better. And people want things that work better.
Andrew BeebeDec 10, 2015
The Grid Edge as a Platform
The US electricity grid is the original mesh network. The original web. The original net. It’s just a really archaic version of a net…. Until now. ¶ Finally, the electricity grid in the United States (and many other places) is starting to get smart. It’s getting smart not just because it can, but because it has to. The proliferation of distributed generation and energy management at the “grid edge” is forcing this change. The grid edge is the emerging moniker for the smart systems that live at the end of the energy distribution system — your rooftop solar, EV car charger, Nest thermostat, energy storage battery, etc.Andrew BeebeNov 17, 2015
