A conversation with an Internet of Energy pioneer
In this week’s podcast, we interview Ryan Wartena, Co-Founder and President of Geli, a company building the Internet Of Energy (and one of our earliest investments).
Ryan brings over 10 years of experience in computational and battery R&D, as well as energy storage business and control platform technologies, with several patents in energy storage and energy computing technologies. Ryan holds degrees in chemical engineering from UC Santiago, a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a post-doc research at Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC and MIT. He loves long-lived energy networks and his goal in life is to see the world operated on a renewably energized Internet of Energy.
Additional discussion points during this interview are:
- What were some of the key insights and discoveries you worked on during your early research in the energy field?
- What problem were you and co-founder Crispell at GELI trying to solve and for whom?
- How will the Hanswha Q CELLS acquisition of Geli, allow the company to scale even more?
- What impact has COVID-19 had on your vision of the Internet Of Energy?
- Given your success, what advice would you offer to aspiring entrepreneurs?
Some book recommendations from Ryan:
And more….so make sure to tune in….
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