Watt It Takes: The Startup Reshaping Mobility Planning With Data

<p>This week on <em>Watt It Takes</em>: How an energy researcher obsessed with electric vehicles stumbled upon a vast trove of transportation data and built a company that is reshaping infrastructure planning for mobility.</p><p>Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Laura Schewel, the founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.streetlightdata.com/" target="_blank">Streetlight Data</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>Laura spent her career studying storage, electric vehicles, and transportation systems at the Rocky Mountain Institute, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and then as a research fellow at UC Berkeley.&nbsp;</p><p>While at UC Berkeley, she got interested in finding a way to give electric vehicle owners more information about how they were driving their cars. She ended up uncovering a data gold mine in the process.&nbsp;</p><p>Laura built a company that now processes over 100 billion data points and provides transportation and urban planners with a granular view of how roads, bike lanes and sidewalks are being used.</p><p>In this episode, Laura Schewel talks about how she ultimately pursued the idea, and what she encountered in the wild world of entrepreneurship.</p><p>This conversation was recorded live at Powerhouse’s headquarters in Oakland, California.&nbsp;<a href="http://powerhouse.fund/events/" target="_blank">Buy tickets</a>&nbsp;for upcoming events.</p><p><em>Support for this podcast is brought to you by&nbsp;</em><a href="https://en.sungrowpower.com/" target="_blank"><em>Sungrow</em></a><em>. With the world’s most powerful 250-kilowatt, 1,500-volt string inverter, Sungrow is providing disruptive technology for utility-scale projects.</em></p><p><em>Subscribe to GTM podcasts&nbsp;via&nbsp;</em><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-energy-gang/id663379413?mt=2" target="_blank"><em>Apple Podcasts</em></a><em>,&nbsp;</em><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0GT5BuD33AiPnqOzQE7YAE" target="_blank"><em>Spotify</em></a><em>,&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9y