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Bill Akeley

Retired gas utility executive; former President of Gas Operations at Eversource Energy who led the nation's first utility-owned networked geothermal pilot in Framingham, MA, and now serves on the HEET board.

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Apr 1, 2026

A climate activist and a gas executive walk into a bar

Apr 1 · 35m

8:53

Where'd you grow up and do you remember how your parents heated your home?

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8:58

Yes, very much so.

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8:59

Grew up in New York.

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9:01

This is New York City? This is on Long Island, outside of New York City.

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9:05

And my parents definitely heated their home with oil because I remember my father, he used to do delivery for an oil company.

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9:13

And once in a while, he would take me out with him.

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9:14

So I knew very much about oil, oil deliveries, and I knew our house was always had oil and every smell that came with it.

13 MINS LATER

22:08

So Eversource agreed to try it as a pilot project.