Forests Inspire My Work on Distributed Ecosystems like Controllable Load Resources
How forests shaped the thinking behind PCLR: build deep common roots, then let competition decide what grows.
Luminary Strategies · 4 min read
In brief
Arushi describes writing her first technical paper across three forests, from the Sebastopol redwoods to Deer Valley and the Lake Michigan Basin, and draws lessons from how forests scale through distributed growth, shared infrastructure, and continual culling and regeneration. She connects that model to energy entrepreneur Randy Goldstein’s distributed-agriculture work and to her own record, citing Aggregated DER in Texas, written under her leadership before her first advised venture, Base Power Company, existed. She presents PCLR as the same kind of growth ecosystem: one common grid-facing standard, with the private technology behind it left open.
Key points
- 01Forests scale through distributed growth, deep common infrastructure and constant renewal.
- 02Market architecture can build system scale before assets scale, as Aggregated DER did for Base Power.
- 03PCLR sets one grid-facing standard and leaves the technology behind it open.
“If you build the roots, and open the ecosystem, prosperous growth will arrive and it will compound.”
