Give the Grid a Digital Spine

In this episode of Grid Talk, host Marty Rosenberg chats with
Audrey Zibelman about the push to make the national grid fully
digital. Zibelman is an experienced energy regulator who is
advocating for giving the grid a “digital spine. Zibelman was the
chair of the New York State Department of Public Service when it
introduced its REV new vision for electric energy. She’s also
been CEO and managing director of the Australian Energy Market
Operator (AEMO) and, most recently, was vice president of at the
Moonshot X Factory at Google. 


“At X, where I continue to be an advisor, I was brought in to
lead a project around grid digitalization. To me, the big
critical part of thinking about the whole process of
decarbonization is that it’s the amount of information we need to
use… as well as the ability to integrate data and all the various
devices that are going to be used.”


“To help manage an affordable, reliable, clean electric system is
massively more complex obviously than it was historically and
part of this is going to be creating these digital spines or
digital platforms that allow us to manage this data and share
it.”  


Audrey Zibelman is an experienced energy industry executive who
has driven innovation within organizations and across the sector.
She has been at the helm of multiple organizations leading the
transition of the power industry into a decarbonized world as a
CEO, Board Member, and government leader. Audrey currently serves
on President Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council, is
a Board member of EOS Energy, Squadron Energy, and SPAN, and
Senior Advisor to the Pollination Group, Meridiam, Alliance
Capital, and Camus energy.