Ensuring Clean Energy For The Next Generation With Chris O' Riley
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Returning to the podcast today is the CEO of BC Hydro, Chris O'Riley. BC Hydro is the proud sponsor of FC Live Canada. With a strong background in engineering and finance, he navigates the complexities of power generation, transmission, and distribution.
O'Riley's innovative vision drives sustainable initiatives, emphasizing clean energy and environmental responsibility. To ensure a reliable supply of this critical product, BC Hydro is spending approximately $2.9 billion per year over the next 10 years to refurbish and expand its electricity assets.
Under his guidance, BC Hydro advances its role in shaping the province's energy landscape. O'Riley's dedication to public service extends beyond his role, fostering collaborations and community engagement.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast. As many of our |
| 0:11.4 | regular listeners and viewers will know, we are shortly in about four weeks from when |
| 0:16.9 | this is being recorded. Shortly attending and launching the first Fully Charged live |
| 0:25.5 | show in British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia and we are very excited about it, no |
| 0:31.4 | question of that. We've had, as always, when we do a new show like last year, we did the first |
| 0:37.5 | time we did a show in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and that was, you know, it was a struggle to |
| 0:44.1 | get there, but it worked and that was a great relief that it worked and we know that this |
| 0:48.5 | year's show in Amsterdam is going to be, I think it's literally three times bigger. So, |
| 0:53.8 | people get it then once they've seen it. The first show we did in the United States in Austin, |
| 1:00.1 | Texas was like a struggle to get there, but eventually it worked and we've gone on and made |
| 1:04.2 | bigger shows. The first show we did in Sydney, Australia last year was way, way above anything that |
| 1:11.0 | we could have possibly expected. We had so many more people attending because there's huge |
| 1:16.2 | interest in this, in the topics we cover. And what we've now discovered in British Columbia in |
| 1:22.6 | Vancouver is that we have actually surpassed what's happening in what happened to us in Sydney. |
| 1:29.6 | So, there's more people coming, there's more way more cars on display, a lot of cars being |
| 1:34.6 | unveiled at the event. For the first time, they'll be seen on the North American content in |
| 1:40.0 | anywhere, which is really exciting. So, and this has all happened in the last few weeks. So, |
| 1:44.8 | today's episode is very, very relevant to that because we're talking about what is happening in |
| 1:50.6 | British Columbia, what has been going on with the forest fires and with the hydroelectric systems |
| 1:57.0 | and their onshore wind and their new distribution lines. Really some really interesting stuff. |
| 2:03.9 | So, I'm not going to go on about it now. All I would love you to do is if you are of a |
| 2:09.0 | mind is to give us some nice reviews. That's really made a difference to the podcast. We've really |
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