The earliest conversation
On October 29, 2024, Currents published an episode of the Climate Tech Startups Podcast with Benjamin Hilborn, co-founder and CEO of Elastic Energy. It is the earliest recorded conversation in this timeline, and it came a year before our first booth at RE+ 2025.
What it covers
The episode description introduces Elastic Energy as a company working to make every home an automatic participant in the grid. The title points to a founder story and a trip to San Francisco.
Why it is here
The field notes follow Elastic Energy in public: the booths, the stages, the streams from the field. This episode is where this timeline starts. The title is Currents' own, and the conversation shows the company at its beginning.