Heather Jackson is the president of Interlock Energy, a team of scientists, engineers, project managers, and hands-on builders and makers who support climate tech startups in prototyping, scale-up, and deployment of critical energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Heather’s startup leadership experience spans across medical technology, advanced manufacturing, and fusion energy. Additionally, in the electric utility industry, Heather has held roles in technology innovation, strategy, business planning, nuclear operations, maintenance, and health physics. Heather created the carbon-free fuels strategy to support a utility in converting natural gas and coal plants to burn carbon-free fuels for clean, affordable, and reliable electricity.
2 topics · no fee, no honorarium, no mileage
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In this talk, we will discuss meaningful ways in which individuals can reduce their carbon footprint and force their electric company to do the same. Because the amount of renewable energy that is available on the power grid fluctuates over time, we have the option to run our household appliances and climate control our homes preferentially when most of the power on the grid is carbon-free.
We will discuss ways to know when clean energy is most available, and ways to avoid using energy when it is the most expensive and least clean. At the end of the discussion, individuals will be empowered to save money on electricity while reducing carbon emissions in their local area.
Heather will introduce a suite of technologies that make it possible to affordably decarbonize existing fossil fueled power plants. She will discuss factors that influence the affordability of this option, and factors that make this approach a potentially much faster way to decarbonize our energy system.
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