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Electricity 2.0. Making Electricity more like the Internet. Electricity 1.0. Read Only Top down Disparate/disconnected (National not international) Buggy Dumb Closed Architected for the past Architected for control Architected for "dial tone" To be fair - it "just works".
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Electricity 2.0 Making Electricity more like the Internet
Electricity 1.0 • Read Only • Top down • Disparate/disconnected (National not international) • Buggy • Dumb • Closed • Architected for the past • Architected for control • Architected for "dial tone" • To be fair - it "just works"
Electricity 1.0 - Read Only Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericskiff/2400270056/
Electricity 1.0 - Top Down Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedefiant/1949525340/
Electricity 1.0 - Disparate Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/adambrock/142056834/
Electricity 1.0 - buggy Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/smb_flickr/892015017/
Electricity 1.0 - Dumb! Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonwiley/1208632794/
Electricity 1.0 - Dumb! Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright/24691962/
Electricity 1.0 - Closed! Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/markusschoepke/72431367/
Electricity 1.0 - Architected for the Past Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakewell/35026819/
2.0 self healing self provisioning
All was well(ish!), until... Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsinho/228010056/
Renewable energy Chart https://demanda.ree.es/demanda.html
Storage Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/spo0ky/420291292/
Exotic storage solutions Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Minebw-large.jpg
Exotic Storage solutions Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Pumpstor_racoon_mtn.jpg
Use proven principles Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexbip/247333777/
Use Publish/Subscribe • Can't control supply? Then Manage Demand • Utilities publish prices • Consumers subscribe • equipment responds accordingly • AKA Demand Response
Peak Shaving Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronlayters/13237817/
Peak Shaving Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/andybutkaj/441970348/
Demand Stimulation Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/m_alsaleh/2737919108/
Demand Stimulation Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigpogm/320545917/
The r/w grid - Microgeneration! Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdell/185642911/
Vehicle to Grid - r/w grid Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/54493249@N00/2243340775/
Infrastructure Requirements Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/eastpole/580765318/
Requirements • Political will • Political will and • Political will
Soundbite! If we have a system where demand mirrors supply then we can throw as much variable supply (renewables) onto the grid as we want without destabilising it. Renewables FTW! Tom Raftery
Electricity 2.0 • Read and Write, Publish and Subscribe • Bottom up and top down • Multiple Sources • An Architecture of Participation • Open "API's" so anyone can add electricity to the grid • Why not have DC in the house? USB sockets FTW
Quote I could imagine a smart garage where I would plug in my car and the computer handles it. I could even make money by cost shifting.... It solves energy security, energy prices and job creation...and by the way, climate change. Eric Schmidt CEO Google