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

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Electricity 1.0 - Top Down

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Electricity 1.0 - Disparate

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Electricity 1.0 - buggy

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Electricity 1.0 - Dumb!

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Electricity 1.0 - Dumb!

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Electricity 1.0 - Closed!

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Electricity 1.0 - Architected for the Past

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2.0

self healingself provisioning

All was well(ish!), until...

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Renewable energy

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy

Storage

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Exotic storage solutions

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Which leads to...

Exotic Storage solutions

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And this...

Solution? Make it a big Network!

Use proven principles

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Use Publish/Subscribe

• Can't control supply? Then Manage Demando Utilities publish prices  o Consumers subscribe 

equipment responds accordinglyo AKA Demand Response

Peak Shaving

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Peak Shaving

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Demand Stimulation

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Demand Stimulation

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The r/w grid - Microgeneration!

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Vehicle to Grid - r/w grid

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Infrastructure Requirements

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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 SchmidtCEO Google

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