{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Supercool","title":"When It’s Time to Power: Critical Loop Gets Electricity Where It’s Needed","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2693,"description":"In America today, it can be faster to build a factory than to get enough electricity to run it.\nTime to power has become a major bottleneck for factories, data centers, EV charging depots, and other infrastructure being built across the country.\nAfter more than a decade at SpaceX—including serving as launch chief engineer for Demo-2 and Director of Flight Safety—Bala Ramamurthy turned his attention to the electricity grid.\nHis company, Critical Loop, combines batteries, software, controls, automation, and generation to help customers get power faster.\nIt’s indicative of a trend we often see on Supercool: building the low-carbon future is as much about breakthrough business model innovation as new hardware or software.\nCritical Loop has already powered an 80,000-square-foot factory for nine months, operates a microgrid at San Diego Airport, and is helping customers unlock more power from the grid we already have—while enabling more renewable energy along the way.\nFor more low-carbon innovations now scaling—and the playbooks driving their market adoption—subscribe to the podcast plus our:\n* Weekly Newsletter\n* Climate Adoption Playbook\n* Supercool on Instagram \n* Supercool on LinkedIn","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WNN1988bBlxHUOs2snU8AOuKZR0jqyW_s255bNBPY2k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZGNm/ODEyNWI4NTRmNTk3/MjA4YmI1NmFhOWEw/NDM5Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}