Lisa Cohn of Energy Efficiency Markets interviews Meetesh Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, which develops next-generation alternative energy technologies. He describes a technology called MotionPower, which harnesses the untapped potential generated from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles. It’s being developed to be installed anywhere vehicles slow down–outside fast-food drive-ups, for example.
Lauren Flanagan, executive chair and co-founder of Sesame Solar, shares insights around the use of DERs and nanogrids as part of a disaster response to extreme weather and power outages.
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