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Watt It Takes
with Susan Kennedy

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Susan Kennedy, the Founder and former CEO of Advanced Microgrid Solutions. Susan went from the highest levels of California politics to founding AMS, which uses energy storage technology and analytics software to aggregate battery storage.

 
 
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Susan Kennedy

Founder & Former CEO
Advanced Microgrid Solutions

 
 
Before starting Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Susan served as chief of staff to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, cabinet secretary and deputy chief of staff to Governor Gray Davis and communications director for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. She served from 2003-2006 on California’s Public Utilities Commission, regulating the state’s investor-owned electric utilities, telecommunications providers and private water companies. She founded Advanced Microgrid Solutions in 2011. The company was acquired by Fluence in 2020. Today, Susan is Executive Chair of the water resouces company Cadiz.
 
 

Watt It Takes is our monthly podcast that tells the stories of founders who are building a carbon-free future — their upbringings, their risks, their failures, and their breakthroughs that are transforming our world.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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