David Roberts: Today on Volts: I talk to Lorenzo Kristov about his vision of a bottom-up energy system built around local distributed energy. Kristov is on my personal energy Mt. Rushmore -- few people have influenced my thinking more -- so I really treasured this one.

Today on Volts: I talk to Lorenzo Kristov about his vision of a bottom-up energy system built around local distributed energy. Kristov is on my personal energy Mt. Rushmore -- few people have influenced my thinking more -- so I really treasured this one.

Envisioning a more democratic, bottom-up energy systemwww.volts.wtf California electricity guru Lorenzo Kristov shares his vision of a just, democratic, “bottom-up” grid based in distributed local energy.

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Your 2018 Vox piece with him is still probably my favorite and most-shared-with-others (and I've been reading/listening since the Grist days). Just shared this podcast on the DER Task Force Slack.

It's my favorite too.

Unlike even some of the DER Task Force podcast guests, Lorenzo recognizes that decentralizing grid resources goes hand-in-hand with decentralizing ownership, planning, and control as well. Feels like a version of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%...

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