Naeem Turner-Bandele: His Plan is Electrifying

#54 – Naeem Turner-Bandele: His plan is electrifying

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• Likes to drink Ginjinha, a Portuguese cherry liqueur
• Wanted to be a professional soccer player.
• Moved to Brazil and discovered power outages were frequent.
• Then he got a serious concussion and pivoted to wanting to start an energy technology company.
• From no interest in engineering to getting a PhD.
• He is known for being a man with a plan
• Dissertation topic was integrating renewables into the electric grid
• His company, Latimer Enterprise, is named for Lewis Howard Latimer
• About lights bulbs not lasting a long time: it was called the Phoebus cartel.
• The power industry treats customers as load, not as a customer.
  • He works with the customers as customers and people.
• Naeem ran track in addition to soccer.
• 200/400 double vs 400/800 double in track
• Renewables are a challenge to the grid but the big issue is still storage.
• Get an energy audit! Naeem can help.
• Naeem is a big movie fan.
• Recommends the movie “Sinners” – vampires in the Jim Crow south
• Naeem loves “Citizen Kane”. Bert – not so much.

Naeem’s company and email: www.LatimerEnt.com, naeem@latimerent.com  

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Hat tip to Joseph McDade for free use of his music "Mirrors".