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Pete Rose on Delivering Hydro-Québec Power to New York City: VX 2026
In this excerpt from VX2026's plenary "Can We Still Build Big Things?" Pete Rose, Senior Director for Stakeholder Relations at the Champlain Hudson Power Express sets the table with a case study in what it actually takes to build big: a 375-mile buried high-voltage line from a substation outside Montreal into the heart of New York City. Read along as Rose recounts the fourteen years it took to bring the project to life. A recording of the entire plenary can be found here.
Building the Next Phase of California’s Hydrogen Market: FPH2’s CEO Jason Caudle
Hydrogen is not new to California. It has long served industrial users, refineries, and critical infrastructure. What is new, and what CEO Jason Caudle (First Public Hydrogen or FPH2) is focused on, is the deliberate expansion of hydrogen into new, scalable market segments, including: public transit, distributed energy, and stationary power.
