Electricity 2.0 Using The Lessons Of the Web To Improve Our Energy Networks
Aug 04, 2015
Tom Raftery
•Lead analyst, energy and sustainability practice, RedMonk•GreenMonk.net•twitter.com/tomraftery•[email protected]•+34 677 695 468
Telecoms
Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg
Telecoms
Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1876_Bell_Speaking_into_Telephone.jpg
Telecoms
Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/alt1040/2675256698/
Electricity
Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thomas_Edison.jpg Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/intimaj/111843868/
Electricity 1.0 - Top Down
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedefiant/1949525340/
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/adambrock/142056834/
Electricity 1.0 - LAN!
Electricity 1.0 - buggy
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/smb_flickr/892015017/
OH NOES!
Chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RockyMtnGuy
Renewable energy
Source - Red Eléctrica de España (http://www.ree.es)
Renewable energy - 2020
Electricity Demand Wind Energy Wind
202510GW max
3.6 GW min
6.3GW max
0.0GW min40%
Exotic Storage solutions
Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Pumpstor_racoon_mtn.jpg
Less Exotic Storage solutions!
Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/airport/154582232/
Information
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Vehicle to Grid - p2p power?
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/54493249@N00/2243340775/
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
To Know Me Is To Change Me
Photo http://www.currentcost.co.uk
To Know Me Is To Change Me
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/tristanf/2627886505/
Barriers to Participation?
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinandrewstewart/93222089/
Quote
The electranet presumes that every citizen is a producer and seller of electricity as well as a consumer of electricity.
Jock Gill
Electricity 2.0
• Architecture of Participation • Bottom up and top down• Hackable • Massive routable network• Multiple Sources• New entrants • Open "API's" • Publish and Subscribe • Read and Write • Sustainable
Why is this important?
As global average temperature increase exceeds about 3.5 degrees C, model projections suggest significant extinctions (40-70% of species assessed) around the globe.
2007 IPCC Climate Change Synthesis Report
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf