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Nicole Rhodes

Nicole Rhodes

CEO of Center Phase Energy, an Oklahoma City-based utility storm restoration and line contractor, and guest on the PowerGridTalks podcast.

Sep 23, 2026

10:12
They said, what's one thing that is completely different than you were like, I had no idea contractors had to do that.
10:18
I mean, just the managing of the business, right? So the way that...
10:22
I don't have a meter spinning over here, right? And so all the financial aspects of it, just the managing the business, very different challenges over here.
10:30
I mean, I tell you, that's probably the biggest rude awakening coming over to this side of the world.
10:36
And then, you know, I mean, I had opinions formed of the contractor side of the world.
10:39
I had contracting.
10:41
That was one of my responsibilities at the utility, right? And I had a lot of things wrong that I thought were one way.

55 MINS LATER

65:50
Because if you're taking the lowest bidder, they've got to cut something to be that lowest bidder, right? So how do you guys feel about bid work and that part of the industry?

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