The Ad Hoc Group

It’s an honor to work with companies like Resilient Structures that play a critical role in strengthening our electric grid.

We are growing! We’ve got an open position for an Engagement Manager. This role sits at the heart of what we do: leading client engagements with energy and resilience tech companies. We're looking for fast-movers who understand both the startup world and the utility landscape and are energized by the messy, high-leverage work of getting new technology adopted by an industry that doesn't change easily. Tag a friend, send a DM, or apply directly below. Job posting: https://lnkd.in/g7FZd6N2 And don't miss our FAQ session with current AHGers this Friday: https://lnkd.in/gzytnBRw #climatejobs #energyjobs #cleantech #utilities #hiring

The Ad Hoc Group is incredibly proud to work with the Overstory team to bring the company's impactful solutions to more utilities across the country!

We are continuing to grow as we support more and more companies in the energy and resilience tech ecosystem with their go to market strategies and execution! We're looking for someone to serve as an Engagement Manager who can jump right into leading client work, helping guide the innovative companies we work with through complex utility sales and regulatory processes. If you know some fast-movers who understand utilities and start-ups and are looking to join a fun and growing team, send them our way! The job posting is live here: https://lnkd.in/dMgDAkMj #energyjobs

We love to see incredible and talented women leaders making a difference. AHG is proud to work with Overstory (current client) and Gridware (former client), and their rockstar team members like Tamara Mendelsohn and Meghan Reibstein.

What does the Octopus Energy+ Uplight deal actually mean in practice? Ad Hoc Group's Jim Kapsis went behind the scenes with nick chaset and Hannah Bascom to understand: -how Kraken, Uplight, and Octopus fit together -what utilities should expect (and what they shouldn’t) -where execution may be harder than it looks Read the full interview in this month’s Gist 👇

A running start to DC Climate Week! Huge thanks to everyone who joined The Ad Hoc Group this morning for our run and coffee hour. We’re looking forward to an exciting week ahead!

AHG is making a splash at SF Climate Week! Come find our team members Chandler Mesirov, Myron Lam, Joshua Grelle, Xander Mitchell, Tess O’Donnell and Jyotika Chandhoke (and clients) at the following events this week: Monday, April 20 → Climate on the Klamath hosted by PG&E – featuring Ad Hoc Group’s clients WeaveGrid, Treeswift and SPAN → Carbon Removal Happy Hour by Carbon Business Council, Carbonfuture, Rainbow, and XPRIZE → Resilience in the Built Environment hosted by Resilient Systems Capital → SFCW Kick Off hosted by Piva, Congruent, and SVB → Founders, Investors, and LP Happy Hour hosted by Vectors Capital Tuesday, April 21 → AI & Energy Extremes hosted by Wireframe Ventures → SFCW Lunch hosted by Climate Capital+Goodwin → Gridlock: Powering a More Reliable Grid hosted by  SE Ventures, ArcTern Ventures, Powerhouse, and Overture VC → Power the Future: Policy, Finance & Tech hosted by Orrick → The Past, Present, and Future of The Grid with Stepchange feat. Nat Bullard → Sip & CDR Wine Tasting Event hosted by Svante → Physical AI Drinks & Bites hosted by Tandem → AI + Climate + Energy: Models to Megawatts hosted by Nixon Peabody → Fervo Energy Presentation & Happy Hour Wednesday, April 22 → SFCW Bain Alumni Happy Hour → Drinks & Demos : 120V Home Electrification hosted by Impulse → The Sustainable Data Center Power Stack hosted by Noon Energy → Can VPPs solve the grid’s capacity crunch? → Drinks & the future of carbon removal with Frontier → Women on Wildfire hosted by Gridware → Priced Out of the Planet: Affordability Gap hosted by Moon Five → Consumers and the Future of Energy Affordability hosted by Palmetto Thursday, April 23 → Heatmap House Party → Out in Climate

The Ad Hoc Group's own Matt Anderson took to the stage this week at Latitude Media's Transition-AI conference to moderate a lively discussion on the role of demand-side solutions, VPPs, and flexible loads in unlocking grid capacity for data centers. He was joined by Astrid Atkinson of Camus Energy, Ben Brown of Renew Home, Manali Gokhale of Google and Alex Portilla of PG&E. Key Takeaways from the Conference: - There is continued agreement that we need to deploy all the tools in the toolkit to solve for data center capacity challenges. - Community engagement plays an increasingly important role in both speed to power and social license. - There's a huge opportunity to invest in distributed capacity / demand-side solutions to help solve for both capacity constraints and community benefits, as discussed on Matt's panel and in our white paper on the Bring Your Own Distributed Capacity (BYODC) model. One interesting heuristic: Every day stuck costs $10K / MW of lost revenue forever. So, a 30 day delay on a 100MW data center costs $30M. See a link in the comments to the white paper we released earlier this year with Alliance to Save Energy on the BYODC model.

Join The Ad Hoc Group for a morning run and networking social during @DC Climate Week! 🏃♀️➡️⚡️☕ On Tuesday, April 21 meet us at Open City for a 3 mile loop through Rock Creek Park. Not a runner? Skip the miles and join us for coffee! Location: Open City (Woodley Park)  Time: 7am run, 7:30am coffee Register here: https://luma.com/80l4dhhj