Month: December 2025

Talk PR: An interview with CEO Coaching’s Mary Naylor | eNews from OWC

Posted on December 11, 2025 by - eNewsletter

Mary Naylor created a new industry of corporate concierge services for 80 commercial office buildings, then led a venture-backed loyalty solutions and concierge lifestyle firm and the sale of the company at 2x industry multiples. Today, she’s a sought-after coach to company C-Suites and offers tips to CEOs for business success.

Food for thought as we wrap up 2025 and look to grow in 2026.

IN THE NEWS

OWC attended WFN’s Fast Pitch Event

OWC CEO Tracy Williams and Senior Media Strategist Samantha Short attended the Women Founders Network 2025 Fast Pitch Event. The evening brought together investors and founders who are building strong companies with clear business models and measurable growth potential.

People Magazine spotlighted Impella

Abiomed reached a national audience last month with a People Magazine feature on Kayleigh Summers, a young mother who survived a rare childbirth emergency. Her doctors turned to Impella, the world’s smallest heart pump, when every option failed. Read her full story here.

Nuvve featured in Microgrid Knowledge

Nuvve, a global leader in grid modernization and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, and its subsidiary, Fermata, were recently featured on Microgrid Knowledge. PG&E, the Schatz Energy Research Center, and Nuvve successfully demonstrated the first U.S. use of bidirectional EVs to automatically manage solar overgeneration and stabilize a multi-customer microgrid. Read the full story here.

Nuvve featured in Microgrid Knowledge

Posted on December 9, 2025 by - Client News

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), working with the Schatz Energy Research Center, is testing vehicle-to-microgrid technology at the Redwood Coast Airport to demonstrate how bidirectional electric vehicles (EV) in a microgrid can integrate solar and boost resilience.

The project is a collaboration between Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Schatz Energy Research Center and Nuvve, formerly a vehicle-to-grid company that recently purchased Fermata Energy.

“A big takeaway from this project is that we successfully demonstrated bidirectional power flow control with frequency,” said David Carter,  principal engineer at Schatz Energy Research Center, which is located on the campus of Cal Poly Humboldt. “We can basically put the microgrid into an absorb mode if there’s an abundance of energy, or we can put it into a conserve mode if there’s not enough energy–without relying on network connections to distributed energy resources.”

In addition to controlling EV operation with frequency, the airport project focuses on dispatching energy from the EVs when it makes the most economic sense, said Hamza Lemsaddek, COO at Fermata Energy. When the microgrid is grid-tied, the platform looks at energy costs and revenue opportunities, with a goal of extracting the most value from the EVs.

While bidirectional EV deployment has slowed somewhat in response to the Trump administration’s phase-out of EV tax credits, certain states continue to focus on the advantages of these mobile microgrids, said Greg Poilasne, CEO of Nuvve. They include California, New York, Illinois and Maryland.