The Holy Grail of Transmission - Tim Heidel, CTO of VEIR
The Wharton Current · 2022-09-27
"High temperature superconductors have been proposed as a holy grail for transmission for at least three decades," says VEIR CTO Tim Heidel. In this episode, Edmund Downie and Adriel Barrett-Johnson sit down with Tim to discuss VEIR, a startup developing a new generation of transmission lines that promise to carry up to 5x as much power as their conventional counterparts. We talk about the grid's desperate need for transmission expansion, VEIR's technology and business goals, and Tim's experience in cleantech innovation over the past decade at the Department of Energy and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
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