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Blog posts from the Introspective team.
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Lessons from Microgrids Applied to the COVID-19 Crisis
By Trevor Gionet and Kay Aikin There are parallels between COVID-19 responses and the management of the electrical grid of the future. Concepts like “flattening the curve”1 and” self-quarantine” …
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Everybody Wins with an Unlimited Vacation Policy
The first thing you hear when you tell someone that your company is moving to unlimited vacation time is, “Great; I’ll be taking the next 11 months off!” But when …
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A Letter From the CEO, Kay Aikin
Dear Friends of Introspective Systems, Last December, I was filled with the kind of optimism that comes when you feel like you’re on the verge of something great happening. …
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The night the lights went out in California
Our market-based transactive energy controls powered by artificial intelligence algorithms are the core of our solution. In the next year, we will be deploying these solutions in California, Israel, Norway and on Isle au Haut. In the future, microgrids will become commonplace.
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Farmer’s Market List: Apples, Potatoes, Wind, and Solar
Heard about microgrids but not exactly sure what they are? Read Susan Ruhlin’s easy-to-understand blog about what they are and why they’re so important. Admit it; you love a farmer’s …
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Grid Evolution in Europe
There is much discussion in America about the electrical grid’s evolution. In fact, in the last week of July, Dr. Johnson and I went to a conference put on by …
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How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies Can Support Integration of Renewable Energy
The electrical grid is arguably the most complex machine on Earth and is evolving rapidly from its centralized history of the last century. However, the grid is changing not only …
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Supercapacitor-Based Energy Storage – Here to Stay
If you spend any time researching microgrids, you quickly realize how important energy storage is to the equation. We asked Larry (Chip) Seibert, of Kilowatt Labs to share his knowledge on the …
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Our Trip to Capitol Hill
Last week we participated in a Clean Energy Business Network “Fly-in” along with 11 other startups. The participating startups had received funding from the Department of Energy for research and …
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5 Question Chatbot Session with E2Tech’s Executive Director, Melissa Winne
Meet Melissa Winne, E2Tech’s Executive Director. As the public face of the organization, she serves as a champion of the Maine energy, environmental, and clean technology cluster. She manages a …
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The Evolution of HistoryIT
After a brief stint with the Chicago University Press, where I tried to blend my backgrounds in both technology and history and mold them into a career, I tried my luck as a consultant. Being able to speak both humanities and technology, I realized, made me a great resource for folks putting together humanities projects that involved technology. Basically, I fixed a lot of broken programs that were the result of the failure for one group to actually understand what the other was needing.
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What’s the Difference Between a Designer and an Engineer?
Growing up in Maine in the 70s and 80s, designer = glamorous cool; engineer = socially awkward geek. I blame societal conditioning. My father was an engineer and my mother …
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