{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Energy Bytes","title":"EP 85: Aarya Borele from Evardi Energy","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4785ab97\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4620,"description":"Utilities are drowning in paperwork long before a repair crew ever leaves the yard. Aarya Borele, co-founder and CTO of Evardi Energy, walks John and Bobby through outage requests getting rejected a day out, FERC 881 pushing line ratings from seasonal to hourly, and why 95 percent accuracy is a failing grade when the lights are on the line. Also in here: the grid as cloud infrastructure, Griddy's flameout, and a 49ers conspiracy theory involving a substation.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n0:00 Agents, VMs and running everything at once\n3:26 Back in the studio\n4:34 What Evardi does\n5:45 Uri and the incentive problem\n10:28 When the ISO rejects your outage\n12:35 How the grid actually works\n15:02 FERC 881 and hourly line ratings\n17:46 Where Evardi fits in\n21:37 Blackouts in India and Kenya\n25:28 The grid as cloud infrastructure\n30:17 Griddy and the wholesale gamble\n33:45 The stack, compliance and weather models\n37:40 Accuracy in critical infrastructure\n40:22 Jargon, bad data and context\n45:56 Models, local hosting and token costs\n55:29 The 49ers substation theory\n57:13 Speed round\n1:05:38 Physical AI and robot ducks\n1:11:25 Paying attention in a granola world\n1:14:09 The ask\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_ai\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io\nhttps://www.facebook.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.instagram.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_io\nhttps://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KU-rritAkNfd5EDWr8dy4miPzznveey9CXz1zVQDRXc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZGMz/NDQxNzEwNTFjZDU3/NmQ4ZmI3ZDU1ZTQ2/Y2U4Yi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}