Building Tesla's Megafactory in 11 Months and Grid Systems

Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino on building Tesla's Megafactory in 11 months and the century old systems still holding America back: "I had a front row seat to an amazing set of impactful innovations at the grid's edge... EVs becoming more affordable... building the supercharging infrastructure... and then working on grid storage." "Even though there's so much innovation happening at the edge of the grid, on the other side of the wire, there's really been no change." "The systems underpinning the grid today are the same... largely mechanical systems that were developed over a hundred years ago." "I built the Megafactory with my team in 11 months. It was a JC Penney warehouse. 11 months later, the first product came off the line." "Ultimately what it comes down to is alignment. When you're working with your local jurisdiction, they can use the process for a code compliant project to say no at every step — or they can say yes at every step." "How do we as a collective, you know, gain alignment — that reindustrializing the US, building critical infrastructure, supporting our critical supply chains here in the US is a good thing?" @baglino @heronpower