Energy Changemakers provides content and community for those advancing distributed energy concepts, technologies and projects.
It’s a place to gather, learn what’s new, exchange ideas, amplify messaging, find opportunities, meet partners, and get expert help creating content.
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Why we created Energy Changemakers
The time has come to reframe the energy paradigm and form a decentralized grid. The technology exists. Funding exists. Public support exists. But it’s still not easy to build distributed energy projects. That’s because our electric grid is designed for another century, governed by rules that no longer make sense, and dominated by economic models that encourage big power plants and long transmission lines — not the energy of the future, which is nimble, local, clean distributed energy.
Energy Changemakers is designed to bring ‘all of us’ together to find solutions to overcome these problems. As business guru Ken Blanchard says, “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
Who leads Energy Changemakers?
Energy Changemakers was launched in 2024 by long-time energy journalist Elisa Wood, the co-founder of Microgrid Knowledge and Real Energy Writers. She previously wrote for S&P Global Platts and other energy publications.
“For an especially readable voice in the industry, the most consistent interpreter across these years has been the energy journalist Elisa Wood, whose Microgrid Knowledge (and conference) has aggregated more stories better than any other feed of its time,” wrote Malcolm McCullough, in the book, Downtime on the Microgrid, published by MIT Press in 2020.
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