The Past, Present, and Future of The Grid with Stepchange feat. Nat Bullard

​A conversation & happy hour

​The American grid is at its most consequential moment in a century. Demand is surging for the first time in decades. The infrastructure is aging and breaking. And consumers are struggling to pay their bills. How did we get here — and what comes next?

​Join Ben Eidelson and Anay Shah of Stepchange Ventures alongside Nat Bullard of Halcyon for a narrative tour through 140 years of grid history — from Niagara Falls to the AI data center boom. Dive deep into why the biggest machine on earth is stuck and what it takes to break it free.

​Due to space limitations, this will be a curated gathering of founders, investors, and operators working to upgrade the grid. Come for the stories and stay to meet each other at our happy hour mixer.

​Speakers

​Ben and Anay co-founded Stepchange Ventures, an early stage energy and climate fund. Alongside the fund, they produce the Stepchange Show--a heavily researched podcast about the history of infrastructure. After covering data centers last September they have been working on the story of the grid, due out this month.

​Nat Bullard is a co-founder of Halcyon, a vertical AI for energy company, and has spent nearly two decades at the intersection of energy, technology, and capital markets. He previously spent 15 years with BloombergNEF and wrote Sparklines, a weekly energy column reaching 250,000 subscribers. He produces an annual deck distilling the state of decarbonization into a mere 200 slides.

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