Peter Asmus
20:23 - 21:23
"this book is essentially a lot of oral histories because a lot of the folks profiled are now retiring, moving on. Well, Chris, you're now in Portugal, obviously, but— and Clay Copeland just, you know, moved on from his job in Córdoba. So I think the other value of this book is sort of capturing this time when the innovation was starting, and a lot of it is sort of decentralized innovation."
“this book is essentially a lot of oral histories because a lot of the folks profiled are now retiring, moving on. Well, Chris, you're now in Portugal, obviously, but— and Clay Copeland just, you know, moved on from his job in Córdoba. So I think the other value of this book is sort of capturing this time when the innovation was starting, and a lot of it is sort of decentralized innovation.”
- Speaker
- Peter Asmus
- Timestamp
- 20:23 – 21:23
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
But there was a person that wasn't in the original— oh, well, I was going to say is also this book is essentially a lot of oral histories because a lot of the folks profiled are now retiring, moving on. Well, Chris, you're now in Portugal, obviously, but— and Clay Copeland just, you know, moved on from his job in Córdoba. So I think the other value of this book is sort of capturing this time when the innovation was starting, and a lot of it is sort of decentralized innovation. What I always like to say to folks— I mean, what's amazing when I tell people the Alaskan story, I say there's 100 different utilities in Alaska, and the total population would often be served by one large investor-owned utility in the lower 48. And so that's where— and a lot of the most radical innovation, my initial concept was, you know, there's grid-connected microgrids, there's off-grid connected microgrids.
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