Erin Price-Wright

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1,223 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Aug

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The a16z Show · How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery · 31 Mar 2026 podcast

I think what we're seeing is the importance of having

lots and lots of different types of power generation and a lot more resiliency in the overall system and network.

So I think we all take for granted that when we turn our lights on in the office, when you boot up your computer, there's sort of like a unidirectional line of electrons that go from some sort of massive central power generation station to your power outlet.

And what we're seeing and what seems to be necessary with much more spiky, much more complicated loads on the grid and off the grid is that resiliency, decentralization and software driven workflows really matter.

And it's going to be impossible to build out the grid for sort of the max power capacity that we could need even at the

you know, most remote edge use case, like on an army base or something like that.

So when we think about our energy thesis, it's, you know, how do we turn this network into a much more software defined, much more resilient, much more decentralized, you know, much more decentralized thing.

And so, you know, I think both of your, both of what you're building sort of feeds into that sort of micro grid behind the meter, on grid, off grid, hybrid.

We just need to be a lot more flexible and a lot more adaptable to a variety of changing conditions.

Does that worry you at all?

And the idea that the grid can grow and move from the edge is just not something that we've really been able to process for the last 50 years in the U.S.

Like the grid is a, you know, has been a very top

project.

And if you want to attach back into the grid, as all these data center people are realizing

it's a huge nightmare.

It's a nightmare.

And so how do you like make it easier to do that kind of organic work?

software.

I think, you know, one thing that's interesting about both of your approaches, and I'm curious how much of this comes back to your time at Tesla and SpaceX, respectively, but you're both like very focused on manufacturability and modularity and modularity of design.

Maybe you should talk, I'd be curious to hear both of your thoughts about that.

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