EV Charging Stations
With over 2 million EVs already on US roads, the face of automobile transportation is about to radically change! In fact, as of the latest growth data for 2021, EVs accounted for 3.8% of car sales in Q2, and EVs are projected to hit 16% of all sales by 2026. The technology for EVs is changing fast and battery costs are coming down – these are the key factors in driving accessibility for the general public (rather than EVs as a premium purchase for the wealthy) and overall availability as manufacturing production lines ramp up to meaningful and scalable levels.
ClayDean Electric has tremendous expertise in helping our clients and General Contractors develop their EV charging station strategies and installation and ongoing support plans. ClayDean is a preferred installation partner for ChargePoint and SemaConnect- but has direct experience with all of the top 10 manufacturers in the market today. ClayDean Electric is one of the largest Electrical Contractors in Denver and clearly one of the premier EV charging station installers in Denver and the state of Colorado.
Growth in EVs is not only being driven by changes in technology and cost improvements- but it’s also being driven by overall consumer demand and particular interest among Millennials and Gen Xers (78% and 70% of drivers are interested in getting an EV at some point, respectively).
The value proposition for EVs is compelling, and more than just estimated cost savings between the average 8 cents/mile for an ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) car compared to the average 3 cents/mile for an EV. It’s about a) Performance, b) Sustainability and c) Battery Technology.
Many experts consider the performance of an EV to be superior to an ICE vehicle because of how the EV accelerates with instant torque. Experts also contend that because EVs have so fewer moving parts, the maintenance costs are expected to be significantly less than an ICE vehicle and are designed to reach 1,000,000 miles. We’re looking forward to the next big annual Consumer Reports ratings!
Sustainability is another reason why some consumers have chosen to purchase an EV, or who are planning to buy one in the near future. Given consumer demand for sustainable solutions, many people purchase EVs because they cause less pollution and reduce dependencies on fossil fuels (if we drive EVs in mass).
As we’ve also talked about, battery technology is going through a major generational change. The next-gen in battery tech helps solve the greatest consumer fear – “charging anxiety”! Battery life varies by manufacturer and continues to improve, but it’s not uncommon anymore to have EVs with 220+ miles of drive capacity…and this is a drastic improvement from earlier generation EVs.
The other thing that I find interesting about charging is that unlike our typical “fill’em up” mentality that we realize at the gas pump; car charging is more about a “top’em off” mentality as you drive and stop somewhere. Charging station availability continues to grow and improve, along with a host of convenient apps that help to locate and reserve charging time, but it’s quite typical as an EV driver to routinely “top off” your battery wherever possible, when possible.
Again, being one of the largest EV charging station electrical contractors in Denver, specializing in multi-family, commercial, custom home design & build electrical services, ClayDean Electric has both the scope and expertise to meet any technical requirements in the ever-changing electrical landscape of the 21st century. ClayDean Electric has worked with and has installed virtually every major manufacturer of EV charging stations in the market and helps consult any business or consumer inquiry.
EV standards are evolving quickly in the US and is another reason why the market is beginning to heat up so quickly. There are 2 major standards in EVs: 1) Standard Power Level II, 2) Standard Charging Plug J1772.
Additionally, there are 3 Charging Levels used throughout the industry: Level 1 or “L1”, Level 2 or “L2” and finally DC Fast Charging or “DCFC”. These levels dictate the power requirements and estimated Time-to-Charge for a variety of charging applications. The chart below will be helpful to better understand the differences in each level, particularly the general differences in residential, commercial and fast charging applications and requirements.
ClayDean Electric provides a full range of services to meet your EV charging needs throughout the Denver metro and Colorado market, including:
- ClayDean Electric provides Consulting & Recommendations for an EV system that meets your business and users’ application requirements.
- ClayDean Electric delivers Quoting & Pricing for all major EV manufacturers, as well as installation requirements including trenching, conduit, layout, and design.
- ClayDean Electric fully installs the EV services including charging units, wiring, and layout.
- ClayDean Electric also provides ongoing service & support & repair of the EV platform and units.
Most EV Charging Station manufacturers offer a range of unit types to meet a variety of charging needs, such as:
- Single Family Home
- Multi-Family Apartments
- Commercial Applications
- Retail Applications
- Fleet Applications
ClayDean Electric is extremely versed in EV Charging applications and identifying the key requirements necessary for a successful implementation and charging experience for you and your customers.
No surprise, but the charging units are typically mounted on walls, pedestals, and poles depending on the exact application and placement.
I think what is also interesting about the world of EV Charging is how incredibly user-friendly the manufacturers have made not only the units, but the software and mobile applications used to manage pricing, time-of-day charger offerings, landlord reporting, and the overall user experience. For example, all manufacturers’ mobile apps support:
- Mapping tools and locators to find the closest charger
- Multiple pay options
- Real-time charging status
- Waitlist and sharing alerts
- Personalized reporting
Clay Dean Electric electricians are Denver’s experts in all things electrical. Clay Dean has incredible expertise in commercial, industrial, multifamily electricals needs, including Electric Vehicle charging stations, new energy technologies, as well as the fundaments. Clay Dean prides itself on its flawless safety record and pride in its workmanship.
Charging-as-a-Service is a strategy that many landlords are deploying with the public availability of charging stations. Most manufacturers are offering easy hardware upgrades for the many different types of units that they each provide, revenue opportunities for the landlord and everything routinely comes with lifetime service and support options available. Service and support also include help with any possible vandalism and damage to a station from a vehicle, along with general maintenance.
Again, Clay Dean Electric provides expert consulting for all of your Electrical needs. Clay Dean Electric is happy to offer a full range of support and service for your electric vehicle charging station requirements. Clay Dean Electric are the Electrical experts in Denver, Colorado.
Clay Dean Electric is a specialized Electrical Contractor with expertise in commercial, luxury home builds, multi-family, and industrial electrical needs. Denver’s premier electrical contractor, Clay Dean Electric can provide a full range of design, build, and installation support for all electrical requirements.
3 Ways Companies Can Do Well by Doing Good: People, Profit, Planet
“I think it’s brilliant, and it’s righteous. And it’s amazing,” said Debra Brown, Executive Director of Good Business Colorado on the most recent episode of our Table26 Podcast, after hearing our president, Adam Feuerstein, had just shared his plans for electricians to earn $243,000 a year.
“We have financial modeling and understanding of these projects to show that it’s absolutely viable. In fact, it’s not even a challenge for the people that come [a “stacked” electrical apprenticeship] and ultimately are then educated to the point where they’re monitoring and managing and analyzing the data from these power systems that we will pay those people $243,000 a year,” he said.
Good Business Colorado boasts 287 members, who, says Debra, have long believed in the power of the ‘triple bottom line’: being a good environmental steward, taking care of your employees, and being a good contributor to the community — giving back more than you’re extracting.
That aptly describes ClayDean’s approach to doing well by doing good. “With what is happening in new energy, there really is an opportunity of moving from an old, outdated model to this renewable energy sector business model where companies put their people and the planet on par with profits,” Adam said.
“Our businesses have been on the frontline of it forever, since before it was a thing,” Debra added. “I think it’s just this inherent principle that transcends party politics, that when you take care of people, people will take care of you. That’s really the bottom line.”
The Triple-Bottom Line
The “triple bottom line” was coined by sustainability consultant John Elkington in 1994, to describe a business’s commitment to social and environmental concerns, giving those facets of the business the same priority as profit.
The triple bottom line aims to measure the financial, social, and environmental performance of a company over time.
The triple bottom line consists of three elements:
- People: measures social responsibility a firm has to its employees, community, and customers
- Planet: measures environmental responsibility
- Profit: measured as a corporate P&L
Organizations like Good Business Colorado and ClayDean Electric believe that if a firm looks only at profit, ignoring people and planet, it is not fully accounting for its impact nor on the cost of doing business. Here’s how each organization is hitting its own triple-bottom-line:
People
At ClayDean, the focus on people starts with an expansive view on hiring, followed by nurturing and support to make each person succeed. To that end, ClayDean has developed a network of “community partners” who provide a range of services that help apprentices and journeymen have all the tools and opportunities they need to do their jobs well.
ClayDean thinks people should be able to live to work, not work to live. “I have had to hear about a living wage for years. I have a real problem with a living wage. It’s not a living wage. Not in my town. I suppose there are some places you can live on $17 an hour. You sure as hell can’t do it in Denver,” said Adam on the show.
In the triple bottom line business model, a company ties societal benefits a company creates for the wider community. Good Business Colorado subscribes to this approach, too, with its advocacy work around fair wages, paid family leave, and equity.
“Since the inception of [Good Business Colorado], our members have been working on access to a statewide plan. paid family and medical leave program,” she said. “A lot of our business owners desperately want to be able to provide paid family medical leave for their employees.”
Good Business Colorado has been working diligently on this year’s ballot Colorado Families First Initiative. It will create a statewide Insurance Fund designed to bring premiums down for individuals and small businesses.
Planet
Companies that care about the planet will win in the end. These organizations work to reduce their ecological footprint as much as possible — by reducing waste, investing in renewable energy, managing natural resources more efficiently, improving logistics, and such.
Adam’s newest business venture, Sonder Energy Partners, is the “planet” piece of the equation in new energy for ClayDean Electric.
Infrastructure development, economic growth, and environmental responsibility are not a zero-sum game.
“There’s a good, really solid, business-minded reason for new energy solutions to existing infrastructure,” said Adam. “One of the problems with new energy that we face is reliability. While here in Colorado, Xcel Energy provides reliable power, that is not the case in other parts of the U.S. and certainly not around the world.”
“With new energy, we are essentially decentralizing the utility, the supply of energy, to local generation, meaning per building. Somebody’s got to maintain those power systems. That’s a big deal. And that’s something that we have to step up and deliver.”
Profit
Of course, in many cases, profit is the ultimate measuring stick It’s proof that a business can do right by its people, community, and the planet … as well as its shareholders.
As Adam is often heard saying around the ClayDean office, “It’s not just about making money … it’s also about making sure that other people can change their life, they can change the world around them.”
Learn More
Listen to the Rage Against the Machine episode, with Debra Brown as our guest. If you want to learn more about Good Business Colorado, the Colorado Families First initiative or you would like to become a member of GBC, follow these links:
https://www.coloradofamiliesfirst.org/
https://goodbusinesscolorado.org/pfml283
If you’d like to hear or learn more from Sonder Energy Partners, check out the site:
Microgrids: How the Future Will Harness Energy
Microgrids are and will continue to shape the energy storage and usage of the future. We are leaning into the new energy economy, with our sister company Sonder Energy Partners. Microgrid technology is just one avenue Sonder is pursuing to bring new energy projects to market. There are unique applications for alternative energy solutions, such as vertical farming, energy storage, and broader use of microgrid technology. Sonder, along with like-minded investors and development companies make these projects a reality.
Listen to the latest episode of Table26 podcast, to learn more from Michelle Feuerstein, CEO of Sonder Energy Partners, and Adam Feuerstein, President of ClayDean Electric. Sonder and ClayDean Electric find ourselves in an awesome, but uncharted place. The projects we are interested in building, have never been done before. There is no playbook. And, that’s what gets us so excited about the future.
To help provide some additional context for how we view the future of microgrids, please Microgrid Infographic Download.
Trades are Essential in the Time of COVID
In our second installment of We Love Apprentices, Amy Van Meter, Director of Talent Acquisition for ClayDean Electric, talks with Dustin, an apprentice who’s been with the company for eighteen months.
Here’s their conversation:
Amy: Dustin, as a second-year apprentice I wanted to talk with you about the trade and get a better understanding of your career path and how you came to ClayDean Electric. So welcome, Dustin. Tell me, how did you get involved in the trade? How easy was it? What were your challenges? I know that’s a lot right off the bat, but I’d like people to get a sense of what it takes to build a career as an electrician.
Dustin: The first time I ever did electrical work, I was only, 14. My uncle was an electrician. And one summer I went out to live on his farm with him and help him out; he runs his own little operation out there. And so that was the first time I ever did it was just like little house remodels and stuff. And, I kind of liked it. I mean, I was just a kid, so I didn’t really know what I was doing.
I graduated from high school in 2015. I really didn’t know what I wanted to do. I ended up going to college for three semesters, paid for a lot of it out of pocket working two jobs. I got to the point where I knew it wasn’t my path. I was going for my economics bachelor’s and I just wasn’t enjoying my classes. I thought I was spending too much money. So I dropped out and I knew I wanted to get into some type of construction because it just kind of appealed to me to work with my hands.
I had a few friends from high school that became electricians. And I started with another company some time ago; it was an eye-opener for sure. It wasn’t like any job I’d had before. Waking up early, the work was really physical. Its a really physical job. Outside, with long days in the snow. The first job I was ever on. I remember we were running an underground pipe while there was a blizzard in January. That was a huge challenge. Frozen ground, and you just don’t want to be there. But it’s nice when you get to build something and see the final product.
Amy: I love that you are telling it true, not sugar coating. How did that make you feel?
Dustin: Kind of empowered, I guess would be the word for that. I don’t know. Really it sucks sometimes when you’re working so hard and you have a shitty day and you’re just like, hurting and sweaty and tired, but it’s nice to you know when you finish a job and stand back from the parking lot and look at it and be like, “Wow!” I built that.
Amy: “I built that.” That’s amazing. That’s amazing, Dustin. So where do you see the electrical trade taking you?
Dustin: So the industry is changing rapidly. More recently with everyone switching to LED, and even more recently, all the push for clean alternative energy, you know, on a smaller scale that’s more accessible – down to residential scales and smaller businesses.
“I just think it’s exciting to be in a field that’s changing the way the whole world works.”
Amy: Yeah, we’re seeing a lot of the green energy initiatives and the way new energy through microgrid and solar, is changing in the field.
What advice would you give someone who’s considering entering the electrical trade?
Dustin: I think a lot of people still see it as blue-collar jobs. People don’t want to get their hands dirty. Or, people think that it’s not good money. That there isn’t a good future in it, but I feel, especially through this whole virus, it’s proven that electricians are one of the driving forces, behind everyone’s everyday life. Where would we all be in our houses if we didn’t our water heaters and our lights?
Amy: Now, we are using our essential voices to talk with people about the trades and let them know the electrical trade, all of the trades, are essential. Trades are essential to moving America forward, to move our state forward, our city forward, and even our neighborhoods forward. We have to have the trades.
Dustin: Absolutely.
Amy: What is your biggest takeaway from your first year in the trade?
Dustin: I guess I would say it really taught me that no one’s entitled to anything and that hard work is necessary. It makes you a better person.
Amy: What do you think the biggest challenges on the job sites are?
Dustin: It definitely varies day-to-day. And, during this virus, it’s been a real pain wearing the mask because it’s hot out and you know, sweaty. But, it’s all part of the job. Sometimes, it’s just getting in your groove and finding out what you’d like to do. I like multi-family. It’s super important, to be on top of your blueprints and know your codes. And so sometimes the mental part of it can be the hardest for sure. But, once you get over that, the physical part really, is not that bad. It all about knowledge and being comfortable with that.
Amy: So Dustin, what advice would you give someone who’s considering the electrical trade?
Dustin: Some advice I would give someone who is considering entering the electrical trade.
Don’t be afraid to get your feet wet. When you start out, it’s just a job. You can show up and do it for a week and not like it. You can quit and more or less — less power, less power to you, literally.
But, really, there’s no reason to be scared to get started. You know, the first couple of months I worked I was just in the shop. I’m just sorting parts and doing pre-fabrication work. And, I still didn’t know it was what I wanted to do for months after that. All it takes is being on the job and like learning that that’s what you’re passionate about. And that’s what you enjoy doing and thinking. I could totally do this for work for many, many years.
Amy: What’s it like being part of ClayDean Electric?
Dustin: Being an employee at ClayDean was a little different for me, coming from another company that was much larger and had a different scope of work. All the guys that I’ve worked with here, I’ve known most of them since I started. And it becomes like a really close-knit group of guys. It’s almost like a small family.
It helps to have that type of chemistry when you show up and do hard work every day. You just get along with the guys that you work and you’re on the same page about what needs to be done makes a difference.
It’s totally different than just being told what to do. It is so much better when you can have a conversation about it and figure out how to tackle challenges together as a group.
Amy: So you work well with everybody and if somebody’s struggling do people come alongside that person and help them out?
Dustin: Yeah, after give‘in him shit.
We all help each other out. If people need help doing their tasks, we’ll go help people do their thing and let them help us do our thing. It’s all give and take, you know what I mean? Cuz, we all got the same goal to get this building done and build it right.
ClayDean’s podcast, Table26
Hear more from Amy and the rest of the crew on ClayDean’s podcast, Table26. In the latest episode, we’ve got ClayDean chief Adam talking passionately about apprenticeships as a way to earn a good living and learn things like data science (yes, opportunities in data science in the trade), instead of piling up student loan debt. And Will Owen is on the mic talking about showing up for his journeyman interview in a suit because that’s what you do in England, where he’s from. You’ll also hear more from Bayaud Enterprises’ Tammy Bellafatto, who joined us in episode 2, on how community partners work together, which is something especially important in these times.
Interested in an apprenticeship with ClayDean Electric? Here’s how to apply.
Building Talent through Registered Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are a core piece of how we do our business here at ClayDean. Amy Van Meter, Director of Talent Acquisition for ClayDean Electric sat down for a conversation about her approach to building ClayDean’s apprenticeship program.
Here’s our conversation:
What was ClayDean’s motivation for developing an apprenticeship program?
Amy: At ClayDean apprenticeships are a core piece of how we build our company and deliver great work. It’s important for us to develop the next generation of great electricians. We are working with the state of Colorado on an apprentice program for behavioral data analysis.
Imagine what that means – you are an apprentice. You write your journeyman license, maybe you write your Masters. You are smart, you are hardworking and you’ve learned programming and design. You’ve learned how to dispatch and monitor behavioral data from smart tech that makes a building more efficient and economical. Boom! You are leading the change. ClayDean is serious about our investment in expanding our trade because we believe the next generation of electricians will help us change and evolve this industry.
The ClayDean team, including you, spend a lot of time in the community. It’s part of who we are as a company. How have those relationships helped you build talent?
Amy: We work with over 100 community partners in the Denver Metro area that have access to job seekers. And so when we have an opening we will send an email out and say, “Hey, we have a need for people in apprenticeships, you know, we have a need for brand new people who are interested in electrical, who want to learn the trade.”
It’s four years of hands-on learning and education. We want people who are looking for a change, looking for an opportunity, and want to build a career. And that’s how we’ve found fantastic people that make up the team here at ClayDean.
Can you share the time commitment an apprenticeship program takes?
Amy: There is a requirement to have a certain proportion of what we call “on-the-job-learning”, which is the time at the employer versus the more traditional instruction — classroom or online learning. Typically, that sort is roughly equaled to about 2,080 hours per year working to about 144 hours a year of related instruction. And, it’s pretty consistent across whatever occupation you’re in.
What we have learned from becoming a registered apprenticeship with the state of Colorado, and having that credential is proof-positive that ClayDean Electric is dedicated to our apprentice electricians. We want our team to have the highest quality of training in our industry. And, we want that experience to be documented. Many people aren’t aware that that credential that comes from the US Department of Labor is a national credential. So by completing your apprenticeship at ClayDean, for example, an electrician can go to another state and show that they have their US Department of Labor credential, and that means something.
Amy, you are so great at making sure that people have their hours documented. Some of us may move to Colorado, and we don’t have a lot of our hours documented. But, we need those hours in order to go to DORA and take the test. I don’t know how that works with other industries, but for the electrical industry, it’s very important that we, as apprentices, have the hands-on hours. If it’s from the military, if it’s from another job, or it’s from another state, we need those hours documented.
Amy: Yeah, those documented hours mean everything to our guys as an apprentice. And you worked those hours and you deserve to have that documented. So yeah, that’s real important to us.
This is a serious career path, isn’t it?
Amy: ClayDean is working hard to ensure our apprenticeship program creates a good living for our tradespeople too. We are just as focused on the wage scale as we are the highly-technical training that we want for our apprentices. Your journeyman license and certainly your masters should be compensated as competitive a rate as an applied science degree. In part, because you will be the one designing and installing this new technology. ClayDean intends for our electricians to be an integral part of energy infrastructure to humans, satellites, and Wi-Fi and all the connectivity that links transportation, mobility, and building infrastructure. We aim to keep all of that in the family of an electrical apprenticeship.
Our aim with our apprenticeship program is to create opportunities wherein five, six, or seven years you could be making a competitive wage and not have school-loan debt because you’re part of renewable energy infrastructure. Whoever has the drive and ambition to walk on to one of my job sites as an unexperienced apprentice electrician has the opportunity to create that for themselves.
ClayDean doesn’t view apprenticeships like other, more traditional electrical firms do. Can you explain why?
Amy: In our industry, we’re no longer talking about the big gray boxes we normally put on the backside of buildings, but we’re talking about programming and using things like behavioral data analysis, information, and big-data…global data analysis… where we’re looking at information, watching how people consume energy. That’s a huge part of these new systems. That’s not something you’re ever going to hear about in a traditional apprenticeship program.
Microgrid or power management systems that pull energy from renewable sources on an industrial scale. What that has an impact on our apprenticeship program, because as we become more and more successful, and we execute those projects and bring them into fruition, number one, there’s about a trillion-dollar migration in the global economy, from oil, infrastructure, energy, traditional energy infrastructure, to what we’re talking about, and that’s happening. Along with that, you can imagine speaking on that scale of things globally, there’s a very serious progression in the technology and the equipment and the material and the tools that we have to do those installations.
ClayDean’s podcast, Table26
Hear more from Amy on ClayDean’s podcast, Table26. In the latest episode, Denise Miller joins the ClayDean crew. Denise is the Coordinator for Apprenticeships and Experiential Learning for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE). In our opinion, Denise has one of the key roles in workforce development here in Colorado. Her organization supports employers and job seekers, helping them find the right opportunities.
Interested in an apprenticeship with ClayDean Electric? Here’s how to apply.
Billion Dollar Opportunity
What we do may not be as sexy as a Tesla or an electrified Porsche. It’s a big grey box on the back of a building. But we can measure the benefit from putting that grey box on the back of that building and your children will breathe better tomorrow as a result of our efforts. That’s how strongly we feel about the work we do at ClayDean.
Back when we were kids, Mom and Dad always said:
“Turn off the lights.”
“Close the fridge.”
“Shut the door. You are letting all the air out.”
Now, with how we are approaching energy, the automation and the power distribution capabilities and technology allow us to know exactly how much power a building, a family, a car, a piece of equipment consumes.
We get excited about the technology that our talented tradespeople are installing, and how the industry is opening up new opportunities for companies like ClayDean. How awesome is it that a “big grey box” can accurately monitor how humans occupy a space and consume its energy. That behavioral data over time feeds an algorithm that makes the building and its grey box smart enough to know how much energy to produce, store and use to serve the humans in that building. So awesome!
And, so many options: solar array, generators, geothermal, wind – we can plug just about any power source into this kind of technology. When you have this kind of data intelligence, you can start to manage the incoming energy from either the power grid, solar array, or wind to name a few. This tech gives us options on where to source that energy coming into the building. And that’s how we make this huge difference.
Here’s another example, of what many people are doing today. We can take power, like on a house, while everybody’s at work all day, and the sun’s energy is stacking up in a battery ready for you to come home at night. When you get home, you have reserve energy, to power your home. So nowhere in that equation, in that 24-hour cycle, are you using fossil fuel-based energy supply. Win. Win.
Listen to the latest episode of Table26 to hear more about ClayDean’s perspective on new energy technology. Adam Feuerstein, President of ClayDean Electric, and Michael Tipton, Director of New Energy Development, lay it all on the table in this episode we are calling “Gentle Giant”. Its saucy, straight-up and tells you just how we see the world.
With every commissioned installation, we are thinking about two things: the economic viability of the project and the impact that the project will have on this earth – for generations. That what excites us. That’s what motivates us. And, that’s why we choose to do it together, at ClayDean.
You Can Overcome Anything
On the latest episode of Table26, the new energy podcast from ClayDean Electric, Tammy Bellofatto, Executive Director of Bayaud Enterprises, talks shower trucks, redemption and how her organization supports vulnerable populations with employment.
Bayaud is one of our community partners — we have 100 great organizations in the program — a group of great folks who help out by supporting our employees. The organization is focused on keeping people employed, providing support through placement and training. At ClayDean, Bayaud has been working with us in our mission to keep electricians employed.
In the podcast recording booth, Tammy joined ClayDean’s President Adam Feuerstein, Director of Talent Acquisitions/HR/Safety Liaison Amy Van Meter, and New Energy Development Michael Tipton. They discussed a range of issues important to job seekers:
Tammy is relatively new to Bayaud, having been appointed to this role in September 2019. She was previously director of vocational services at the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.
In the “You Can Overcome Anything” episode of Table26, Bellofatto shares her own personal experiences and helps listeners understand how people experiencing homelessness, seeks the same things that all of us want – a safe place to sleep, a steady source of income, and the resources to be self-sustainable. “Bayaud enterprises went to the people that we serve and said, ‘How can we help you what, what would you like us to do?’ And they told us that one of the hurdles to employment is not having clean clothes. So we took one of our old shredding trucks and put in washers and dryers,” shared Bellofatto in the podcast interview.
Bayaud Enterprises’ mission is to create Hope, Opportunity, and Choice, with work as the means through which people with disabilities and other hurdles to employment can more fully participate in the mainstream of life.
Looking for a new career? ClayDean Electric is interested in your passions and what motivates your future because we invest in our people for the long-term. Our most senior electricians have built their careers at ClayDean, managing a wide variety of projects. If you are new to the industry, our registered apprenticeship program with the State of Colorado, will give you a diversity of exposure and mentoring from our senior team and the resources you need, from community partnerships like Bayaud Enterprises.
We invite you to listen and subscribe to Table26.
Thunderstruck
The team recently took Dutch fitness guru Wim Hof’s ice bath challenge. Ryan earned bragging rights. The rest of us earned blue lips and uncontrollable shivering. We spent the morning dumping 1800 lbs. of ice into an aboveground pool in Adam’s garage at the Hood Ranch. All, so we could kick on “Thunderstruck”, climb in, and challenge our bodies and minds to work as one. There’s something crazy about measuring your whole earthly existence to AC/DC. Running on repeat, that song was blaring from the speaker. Our team and friends egged one another on, and, of course, making fun of each of us. You cannot control your initial response to dipping your whole-self into freezing water. That’s the whole challenge. Mind over body. To quote Joe that day, “I did not recognize myself when I got out.”
We used the Ice Challenge as a backdrop to record the inaugural episode of our new podcast, Table26.
A revolution is taking place in new energy, from microgrids to solar, hydro, and other green energy solutions. This transformation is creating opportunities for communities, businesses, and talented tradespeople to explore new models for powering our world. Table26 will explore this new landscape through our observations and conversations with some of the people driving this change.
Through the podcast, you’ll get to meet the Clay Dean team, and really see who we are. We’ll introduce you to community partners from across the West. We’ll talk with organizations, individuals, and community leaders involved in workforce pre-apprenticeship programs and show you some of the amazing work happening here in Colorado to serve veterans, justice-involved, or others looking for a new career.
We’ll talk to industry leaders and those pushing economic development and growth policies. It is through conversations with progressive developers, investors, and policymakers that we can find a common world-view on the transformation occurring in the new energy economy.
We invite you to listen and subscribe to Table26.