Peter Asmus
4:35 - 4:56
“this opportunity came up and actually it started— I met Gwen at a conference of some sort. And at the time, I was an analyst, had a global database on microgrids, and I think Gwen said something to the effect like, "You don't have enough Alaska microgrids in your data,"”
- Speaker
- Peter Asmus
- Timestamp
- 4:35 – 4:56
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
But, um, this book is my fifth book, and before this book, I said I would never write another energy book, partially because I'd written three books The first one was more of a— was actually a Simon& Schuster book, was more about the role business played in solving environmental issues back in 1990, which was not the most common storyline, but 3 books about California. And so I was like, what else can I say about California? I'm kind of like done with it. But this opportunity came up and actually it started— I met Gwen at a conference of some sort. And at the time, I was an analyst, had a global database on microgrids, and I think Gwen said something to the effect like, "You don't have enough Alaska microgrids in your data," or something like that.
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