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This is CEOs you should know,
powered by iHeartMedia. Most of the electric

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network in this region was originally engineered
to provide lighting. Now customers are looking

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for electricity potentially to be an option
for how they fuel their vehicle, so

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that electrication of transport and heat poses
a whole new challenge, and we're embarking

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upon a whole rebuild to update and
increase the capability of our electric grid.

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I'm Steve Warner, President of Vastal
Grid, New England. I'm responsible for

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our electric delivery business, our electric
transmission business, and our guest delivery business

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in this region. You know,
as someone who spent his career in utilities,

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I want to be your trusted advisor. I don't make more profit if

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you use more of my energy.
In the state of Massachusetts, our rates

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are decoupled from usage right, so
we're paid the same regardless of it's a

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hot summer or a cool summer.
And when you do an energy audit,

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there'll be a list of recommendations.
You can pick through them and pick the

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ones that make sense to you.
And depending on the income level of the

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household, those recommendations could either be
all paid for through the mass say program

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itself and not cost that custom or
one additional penny, or there could be

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a substantial subsidy to the cost.
Across the state. We have sixty two

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hundred employees that live here, they
work here, they play here. But

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every day they wake up with that
important mission. They really operate behind the

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scenes to make sure you can go
about your daily life. In most days,

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they do that work behind the scenes
so you don't have to worry about

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us. And yes, so I'm
most proud of that public service calling that

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we all have in this industry.
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