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 · America's Energy Problem: The Grid That Built America Can’t Power Its Future · 16 Jul 2025 podcast

And you look at why are delivery costs such a big problem. matched

Grid is at capacity. matched

Getting a new project onto the grid today, you know, you sign up for interconnection, it could take a decade. matched

There's a backlog of twenty plus years to get a new transformer. matched

The transformer technology we're using today. matched

It's kind of bananas if you actually look at what makes a transformer. matched

First of all, there's one company that makes these and there's one plant in the US that produces the right type of steel that you need in order to make these transformers. matched

And it's a hundred-year-old tech. matched

And it's like the wait list for transformers is insane. matched

So I think we're getting to the point in demand starting to rise again and the calcification of grid technology where it's like, should we just leapfrog? matched

The grid. matched

Like, do we really need to wait in line and wait for this to catch up? matched

I think there's like two versions of how you do that. matched

One is how do you get power gen and power storage essentially as close to demand as possible? matched

And that's a problem for new tech to really help solve because we're talking about instead of these like mega projects that we're used to building, well, not used to building anymore, like massive nuclear plants, massive new natural gas plants. matched

Et cetera, we're talking about much smaller and more distributed sources of power bypassing interconnection altogether in many cases. matched

We're seeing that as a pretty big trend with data centers. matched

As data centers are just building power directly on site and co-locating power with the data center because they're like, I can't wait. matched

Microsoft's like, I can't afford to wait 10 years to get an interconnection with the grid. matched

I need this power now today. matched

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