Matt McKibbin

Matt has been at SolarPunk Summit since the beginning. At his first talk here, his son, a few months old, was strapped to his chest holding the microphone. This year he walked onto the Love Dimension stage on Fire Day, greeted us with nerdy crypto valentines (“your love is the only thing which can decrypt the private keys to my heart”), and then handed the room a new idea.

He called it the Internet of Power: make energy addressable the way open internet standards once made devices addressable. Then he asked us to imagine it. Sovereign power in our own communities, so that if the grid went down we could still stand. Cheaper power when we plug in together. The largest battery network in the world, with no one owning the power. He taught exergy, the useful work left in a system, with a hot cup of coffee and a song he wrote for his son.

What we love in Matt is that he brings the deepest technology to the gathering as an act of love and imagination. He named what keeps him coming back himself: the community, and the people who care about consciousness and technology and using things the right way.

Follow his writing at decentralize.me, bring him to speak, and carry the Internet of Power to the community you are building.