A phone call about power cuts helped pull Bimbola Adisa out of investment banking. At Beacon Power Services, the engineer turned founder is tackling a quieter problem: electricity networks that cannot see enough of their own customers, equipment and losses.
FortisBC is trying to modernize a century-old energy system without making reliability or affordability the collateral damage. The playbook is unusually practical: blend cleaner fuels, fund many small experiments, partner early and let regulators kill the ideas that cannot yet carry their cost.