Watt It Takes: Turning Real Estate Into Clean-Power Assets
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Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week on Watt It Takes: Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Robyn Beavers, the co-founder and CEO of Blueprint Power.
Blueprint works with real estate companies to turn their buildings into clean energy power plants. Blueprint developed software that helps building owners optimize their use of co-generation, fuel cells, solar or batteries.
Robin has a long history in the worlds of tech, real estate and energy. She was an early employee at Google, and went on to found the company’s environmental strategy group. She later built the innovation team at NRG Energy. She later went into the world of real estate, where she oversaw venture investments at Lennar.
Today, she’s bringing all that experience together in the hopes of making buildings more dynamic actors on the grid.
This conversation was recorded at the Powerhouse headquarters in Oakland, California.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Seapower. See Power has been helping organizations like yours |
| 0:05.6 | chart a path to the energy future since the first open energy markets in the US were |
| 0:09.8 | established back at the turn of the 21st century. |
| 0:13.0 | They've got a range of energy experts who will work with your organization |
| 0:16.2 | to help you build a unique bridge to that future. |
| 0:19.0 | A bridge that spans the grid of the past, |
| 0:21.1 | crosses the transformations of the present, and leads to a future that's not set yet. |
| 0:26.0 | Maybe you can set it. |
| 0:27.0 | Visit the Seapower Way.com slash future |
| 0:30.0 | to learn how seapower can guide you across the bridge to the energy future. |
| 0:34.4 | That's the seapower way.com slash future. This week on what it takes, Robin Beavers worked at Google, worked in the government, |
| 0:50.5 | at Vestus, and NRG, but it wasn't until starting her own company that she got a full appreciation for money. |
| 0:57.0 | Once we raised money, I had this instantaneous realization about what money was. |
| 1:04.1 | It's not just cash, it's actually time. |
| 1:07.4 | And I looked at my bank account, you know, Blue Prince Bank account, |
| 1:10.3 | and all I could see was an hourglass. Welcome to What It Takes, an interview series produced by Powerhouse and Green Tech Media, |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Stephen Lacy. |
| 1:20.0 | In this series, we hear from founders and executives at the most influential clean energy companies their backgrounds their passions their struggles their deals their management philosophies their near death experiences in episode, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Robin Beavers, the co-founder and |
| 1:37.2 | CEO of Blueprint Power. |
| 1:39.9 | Blueprint works with real estate companies with big portfolios to turn their buildings into clean energy power plants. |
| 1:45.0 | It has a piece of software that helps building owners optimize their use of co-generation, fuel cells, solar, batteries, or any other on-site energy. |
| 1:53.6 | Robin has a long history in the world of tech, real estate, and energy. |
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