EEI 2023
Hannah Bascom is Chief Market Innovation Officer at Uplight.
The Edison Electric Institute held EEI 2023 in Austin and brought together industry stakeholders from all over the United States. The consensus is that the electric industry's transformation to low and then to zero-carbon electricity must include technological advancements to get there. That is why technology leaders also attended and brought their solutions with them. Public Utilities Fortnightly presents conversations with innovators, where high tech meets energy tech to allow resilient clean energy to be delivered to utility customers.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: What is your role at Uplight, and what do you do on a typical day?
Hannah Bascom: My title is the Chief Market Innovation Officer, so I like to say I have all the fun stuff. Succinctly, my role is to create the market conditions that the industry needs to decarbonize to commercialize those conditions, and then to tell everybody about it.
We want to make sure that our products are resonant and are just ahead of where the market is because you want to make sure that when the market arrives, you have a product there that delivers for buyers and customers.
In my role, I think a lot about how we at Uplight can strengthen our position as visionaries and thought leaders, and how we can highlight successes that our utility partners and customers are having.