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Ted Geisler and the education of a horse trainer
A riding lesson became a career detour. Now the Arizona native leading APS has to make a growing state’s appetite for electricity add up for the people already paying the bill.
Robert Blue and the problem with going faster
A former policy adviser now runs Dominion Energy, where the digital economy meets the electric grid. His route to the job runs through Virginia government, a law review, and the occasional kayak trip down the James.
Kim Greene and the art of hearing bad news
Before she led Georgia Power, Kim Greene learned how to recover from a failed engineering class. Her career since has turned on a larger question: how do you keep a vast system honest about its problems?
Garrick Rochow and the Things You Cannot Switch Off
His father helped keep Consumers Energy in step with environmental rules. Now Garrick Rochow runs the company, with a harder assignment: change how Michigan gets its power while keeping the lights on.
Hudson Gilmer and the power hiding in plain sight
After a career in telecom and energy analytics, Hudson Gilmer co-founded LineVision to help utilities find spare capacity in existing power lines. Getting the technology into the control room took years of patient work.
Justin Lopas and the Factory That Ends at Your House
A former SpaceX manufacturing engineer is turning home batteries into grid infrastructure. His hardest assembly line runs through driveways, electricians and city hall.
Drew Baglino
Drew Baglino spent 18 years at Tesla building the guts of the electric age - the Model S powertrain, the Powerwall and Megapack, the 4680 battery cell and a clean-sheet 50 GWh factory in Texas. In 2024 he walked away as Senior Vice President of Powertrain and Energy and aimed his next act at the one piece of grid hardware almost nobody had touched in a century: the transformer. His startup, Heron Power, builds software-controlled solid-state transformers and in February 2026 raised a $140 million Series B co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy Ventures to build a 40 GW U.S. factory. He also quietly founded a residential heat-pump company, Sadi Thermal Machines.