Higu Baruah has a unique story. He started his career in sales but ended up in data analytics. When asked about this unique path he says “knowing what happens on the ground helps me analyze data better than those who have never faced customers”.

The energy storage ecosystem has one crucial player — the “offtaker” or the utility company which delivers the energy to the end consumers. In this blog post, we talk to Jay Jeter, from Southern Company, one of the largest utilities in the US. Jay recalls how just until recently, battery…

One of the most interesting stories around Energy Storage in California is probably the one around 2016 Aliso Canyon gas leak. It led to an expedited approval and commencement of Battery Energy Storage units, in record times. This is the point in time when Stephan had started working on battery…

While working with the leaders of energy storage space, I have come to realize that often what drives them is something deeper that shaped their lives early on and gave it a everlasting meaning. I recently met Rachana Vidhi whose story accentuates this realization. Here is Rachana talking about what…

In my first post on this blog, I thought of writing about Lizette. She is one of the most amazing people I had got the opportunity to work with (as a technology provider to her company). It is rare to come across someone who has deep understanding of the clean…

Jennifer has a goal to scale up energy storage projects across the US. She is the kind of person who takes every step carefully and methodologically. Think of her as an asset manager with the mind of a finance portfolio manager. This is an hour from her life in 2017…

What is this blog all about? This blog chronicles stories from Energy Storage industry — aka the industry of really big batteries measured in Gigawatts of capacity Stories from the lives of people in this industry— a slice of their life captured as an one hour capsule Gigawatts + Hour = GigawattHours 🔋— the unit of energy storage.