Surge in Electric Tech Causes 'Call for Power' in Canada's no.1 Province? with Chris O'Riley
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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In this episode of the Fully Charged Show Podcast Robert is joined by Chris O'Riley, CEO of BC Hydro. As British Columbia's electricity utility, BC Hydro manages a vast network of dams and powerhouses, providing power to over five million people.In this episode, Chris delves into the challenges of meeting growing electricity demand while ensuring the reliability and sustainability of BC Hydro's infrastructure. They discuss the importance of upgrading and operating decade-old dams, as well as the ongoing efforts to balance energy supply with a call for power. Enjoy this conversation on the future of electricity in British Columbia. Chris will be joining Robert on stage at Everything Electric Canada on 6th, 7th, 8th September.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast coming to you from |
| 0:08.8 | the hottest day of the year in the UK which is very lovely I'm not complaining it's been gorgeous |
| 0:15.9 | we are shortly as many regular viewers and listeners will know heading to Vancouver for the Everything Electric Canada show. |
| 0:25.4 | We're very, it's kind of hard not to look forward to it because it is such a beautiful |
| 0:31.0 | city, it's such an amazing province. British Columbia is such an extraordinary place. |
| 0:36.3 | And I, and so it is a real joy to catch up with the folks at British, who are the energy company in that area and they're |
| 0:47.9 | fairly unique in that they they kind of run the whole electricity system in British Columbia and they are an enormous, which is an enormous area. |
| 0:59.0 | I mean, I can't, as a little European from a small island off the coast of Europe, I can't really get my head off the coast of Europe. I can't really get my head |
| 1:06.3 | around the scale. It's just huge. So I'm really pleased today that I've had a |
| 1:12.1 | chance to catch up with with Chris O'Reilly who is the CEO of B.C. Hydro and just such an amazing guy with such a kind of gentle, grounded, realistic, sensible, you know, long-term view of the energy transition. |
| 1:32.0 | Not some big either, either big sort of you know claiming impossible things or saying it's not possible. |
| 1:38.0 | It's just like slow steps gradually improving things for everyone involved, which is all of us. |
| 1:44.8 | You know, we all switch lights on, we all, you know, a lot of us drive cars, what's from powering |
| 1:50.6 | those cars, we all buy clothes, where they made, how they imported, you know, all |
| 1:55.5 | those things are affected by the energy system and the grid and that's his world and it's fascinating to learn from it. |
| 2:05.0 | Just to also mention before we we dive in with that that after Vancouver we've got another show in the UK at Farborough in October the beginning of |
| 2:17.9 | October which is also you know those shows are they are amazing experiences. |
| 2:23.1 | I now feel like I haven't done one for a while |
| 2:24.8 | because we did, obviously early this year we did one in Sydney |
| 2:28.2 | and then we did one in London. |
| 2:30.2 | And then we haven't done one for a while. |
| 2:31.4 | So I've kind of got out of the way of them, |
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