Beavers’ employer is one of the largest operators of utility-scale power-generation assets in North America, doing a massive trade in selling both renewable and conventional power to utilities.

But this king of centralised generation appreciates the tidal wave of change that decentralised generation is bringing. And last year it hired Beavers as senior vice-president and Station A founder to help figure out how it can ride that wave rather than fighting it.

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