3.12 Season 3 Wrap Up with Amy Simpkins

Power Flow

Join Amy Simpkins for a “state of the [renewable energy] union” in 2023-2024, her predictions for 2025, reflections on innovation theory and the importance of creative rest for the entrepreneurial (and life!) journey, and a summary of Power Flow’s stunning Season 3 guests.

To consider this summer: How do we give ourselves mental and creative rest as professional adults in an extremely fast-paced industry?

Quotes (all by Amy Simpkins)

“Innovation is not just a cyclical process, but an iterative one.”

“The federal funding and the visibility that it has given to #CleanTech and the visibility it has given to projects for underserved communities has been huge and was possibly the biggest news of the year.”

“Collaborative innovation only happens when we get out of our hidey holes and we join together in community.”

“In the technology world, we’re definitely seeing energy storage coming into its own, maybe for the first time.”

About Amy
As co-founder and CEO at muGrid Analytics, Amy Simpkins solves wicked problems at the intersection of energy technology and economics using math and modeling. muGrid provides bankable techno-economic analysis, optimized control, and project development of renewable energy, energy storage, and microgrids to maximize economic return, increase energy resilience, and promote energy equity in the US and around the world.

Amy is also an internationally recognized speaker on innovation and iterative development for entrepreneurs. She is the author of Spiral: A Catalyst for Innovation and Expansion and host of the Power Flow Podcast, which amplifies diverse voices in the energy revolution.

Prior to muGrid, Amy designed and operated spacecraft as a Systems Engineer with Lockheed Martin. Her technical expertise includes system and software architecture, system-level performance modeling, and design tradespace analysis. Amy holds an MS in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California and an SB in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She is a messy chef, a world traveler, a taekwondo green belt, a vocal music minor, a mom to three curious innovators, and a tough cookie in the Colorado backcountry.

Resources:

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