Erin Price-Wright

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

Erin Price-Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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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

So how do you get power more tightly coupled with the load that it's actually going to serve? matched

And that's a really interesting problem for tech also from a software perspective, because if you get generation, storage, and usage all co-located very closely together, like that's a very good problem for AI to solve, like reinforcement learning, stick that in there and suddenly you get massively efficient systems that you couldn't get at grid scale. matched

Building on that, I think Texas literally today we're recording this during a massive heat wave that's affecting most of the eastern and southern United States. matched

And if you compare the grids of Texas with New York, Texas famously historically had massive grid failures several years ago when a big heat wave came through. matched

The grid couldn't keep up with all the air conditioners that were going on and people saw massive power outages. matched

Everyone was really mad. matched

People were like, oh, ERCOT doesn't work, D-Reg doesn't work. matched

And what has Texas done in the couple of years since that happened? matched

They have absolutely flooded the grid with solar capacity. matched

Texas has doubled their solar capacity in the last approximately three years. matched

And with that, they've just deployed thousands of batteries. matched

One of our portfolio companies, base power, is one of the players here, but there's many battery power companies deploying all across Texas to provide storage for that solar power. matched

And if you look at the performance matched

performance of the Texas grid versus the performance of the New York matched

and surrounding area grid during this heat wave. matched

I must have seen 10 news articles this morning about how well Texas grid has done. matched

The elasticity and ability to react to very quick changes in demand without having to change kind of baseload power. matched

Like you can't build a new natural gas plant or a new nuclear reactor overnight. matched

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Solar is just so insanely cheap. matched

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