How to Make Utilities Go Renewable! (w/ Dr. Bonnie Pratt)

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Episode 17 of Energy Nerd Show & Tell. This week's guest: Dr. Bonnie Pratt on greening utilities.

Each week, Jeannie and Bruce will interview an energy nerd about what's been getting them psyched about energy!

*EO - Entrepreneurial Orientation

Dr. Bonnie Pratt, Packetized Energy

Bonnie earned her PhD in Natural Resources and a Certificate in Complex Systems in August of 2020 at the University of Vermont. She was part of the National Science Foundations Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship on the Smart Grid: Technology, Human Behavior, and Policy. Her dissertation, Enabling Innovation in the Energy System Transition, combined her education in energy systems with her background in business and tech entrepreneurship. She began her career at the Citigroup Private Bank in the San Francisco and Boston offices before attending Babson’s two-year MBA program and co-founding her first tech startup in Cambridge, MA in 2011. She was President of Radius Tracking Systems for four years before moving to Vermont where she worked with numerous startups with their go to market strategies and cofounded Reconciled, a tech company providing online bookkeeping for entrepreneurs. She is deeply embedded in Vermont’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and serves on numerous boards including LaunchVT and the Center for Women and Enterprise. During her PhD she taught courses on entrepreneurship and the energy system transition at UVM, Middlebury, and the Center for Women and Enterprise. Bonnie recently accepted a position at Packetized Energy, a Vermont-based firm that has developed hardware and software solutions to enable demand-side flexibility.