The Future of Energy
Not Confidential
Because nature, people and the future matters.
Open Heart, Mind & Will
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Position
2
Problem
3
Possibilities
4
Pivot
5
Proposals
6
Planning
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Plan
The Possibilities
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination
and marks real advances in science.
Albert Einstein
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Technology
Innovation
The Pivot
Retreat and reflect, allow the inner knowing to emerge.
Brian Arthur
Incumbents have to figure out different ways to use their assets, capabilities and most difficultly their cultures to compete in a very different market that is coming at them at a speed they can scarcely imagine and much faster than their cultures will find it easy to cope with.
Amory Lovins
Rocky Mountain Institute
Almost everything around you, was made by people that were no smarter than you.
You can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Steve Jobs
We’re seeing a continuing sharp, exponential decline in the cost of renewable energy ..........
in many parts of the world, renewable energy is leap-frogging fossil fuels
Al Gore, Feb 2016
- Distributed Generation
- Alternative Fuel Vehicles
- Energy Storage
- Smart Grid
- Demand Side Management
- Little 300
- Connected Home
- Connected Community
The Proposals
Inevitable & Intermingled
Distributed Generation
Decentralised, Modular and Flexible
Centralised
Decentralised
Energy Storage
Critical for Demand Side Management (DSM),
optimising renewable generation
and Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFV).
Transmission
Distribution
Consumer
Position & Problems
Possibilities
Electric Vehicles
The time is right for electric cars.
In fact the time is critical.
Carlos Ghosn, CEO Renault & Nissan
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Connected Home
Many industries are converging
to satisfy our hierarchy of needs.
The Little 300
Renewables, smart/digital technology, big data and social media are force multipliers that can overcome the current energy orthodoxy.
Source: Ofgem
Demand Side Management
Using nega-watts to save mega-bucks
Source: Navigant Research
Growth in Behavioural & Analytic DSM
Smart Grid
Phasor measurement units, distributed power
flow control, dynamic turn up/down,
automation, artificial intelligence, drones......
OMG!!!
Source: Navigant Research
Growth in Smart Grid Technology
Connected Community
Smart cities, cyberville, digital city, teletopia OMG!!!!!
Planning
Planning is everything. Plans are nothing.
Field Marshall Helmuth Graf von Molke
Natural Planning
- Purpose
- Mission
- Brainstorming
- Organising
- Next Action
Your mind's for having ideas,
not holding them
David Allen
The Plan
A good plan violently executed now is better
than a perfect plan executed next week.
General George S. Patton
KBO
- Roads
- Grid
- Homes
- Offices
- Factories
Next Meeting
- Storming, Forming & Norming
- Natural Planning
- Theory U
- Digital Comms