The Easy Problems Are Solved. The Future Is Energy Orchestration.

Send us Fan Mail About 70% of what goes wrong at an EV charging site can now be fixed with a remote reset. Michael Greenberg of Voltra says that means the easy problems are solved, and what's left is harder: thin electricity margins, multi-vendor sites, grid limits, and physical hardware that still breaks. Michael spent 25 years in enterprise software before moving into EV charging. He joins host Jason Cortes to explain why the market is getting "less sexy" as growth shifts to depots, municipal fleets, multifamily, and workplace charging, and why operators are now fighting for every basis point of cost. They cover how AI agents are changing the way operators monitor and run sites, and why that makes field service a bigger share of the budget, not a smaller one. Michael also makes the case that batteries and dynamic load management will be standard on nearly every new site, that load control is moving from the cloud to on-site controllers, and that flexible interconnects are how operators will get power from utilities that can't supply everything they ask for. In this episode: Why Voltra moved from charger management software to an infrastructure layer for whole energy sites The four problems every energy site has to solve at once: connectivity, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance What Europe's operators already learned about making a site pencil out without subsidies Where AI helps operations today, and where it stops Why truck rolls aren't going away When battery economics work: charge and discharge every day Canada's push for local load control and what it signals for the US Flexible interconnects and the utility's view of EV charging