Leah Kuritzky
Antora Energy, Head of Photovoltaic Operations
About the Speaker
Leah Kuritzky is Head of Photovoltaics Operations at Antora Energy. She has a PhD in Materials from UC Santa Barbara and has focused her career on engineering solutions to climate change. She has a background in LED R&D, manufacturing, and reliability, and at Antora she puts her optoelectronics skills to unique use in thermal energy storage. Antora uses renewable electricity to heat blocks of carbon to glowing hot temperatures >1500°C. Dr. Kuritzky has contributed to the R&D and manufacturing of Antora's high-efficiency thermophotovoltaics (TPV) that convert the stored radiant heat back into electricity to deliver zero-carbon, on-demand power to customers.
