Tim Stenovec
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1,732 appearances
25 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 30 Mar
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We have two gigawatts coming online over the next four years.
That means we can triple our energy use in the city of San Jose.
There's no other city in California, maybe the country, that is set up to triple its energy consumption over the next four to five years.
That's a really unique position to be in.
We're just blessed with this infrastructure coming online.
We've, of course, said yes to it, helped facilitate it, been very supportive of it.
But we're really optimistic that this means more jobs, not just data centers, advanced manufacturing, R&D labs.
We're in a really strong position to capture this technological wave that we're in.
The power that will be used by these data centers, the power that's coming online, how is it being generated?
I know you have that one nuclear power plant down south, Diablo Canyon on the Central Coast, and some renewables certainly too, wind and solar.
How's this energy going to be generated?
So the city of San Jose, a few years ago, set up something called a community choice aggregator.
That's a mouthful, but essentially the city purchases power on behalf of the users within our city limits.
We have used this policy tool to sign 20-year power purchase agreements that enable us to fund new generation capacity.
And because we have a commitment to cleaner power,
energy, what we're essentially doing is buying solar and wind paired with storage.
And that's the key, that the intermittency issue is real.
But when you build enough storage capacity, you can smooth that curve out and actually make it work.
And so San Jose already has one of the
cleanest renewable mixes in the country, but it's largely because we're using that collective purchasing power to invest in cleaner power, invest in innovation in the energy sector.
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