1. Electricity 2.0 Making Electricity more like the Internet

2. 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"

3. Electricity 1.0 - Read Only Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericskiff/2400270056/

4. Electricity 1.0 - Top Down Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedefiant/1949525340/

5. Electricity 1.0 - Disparate Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/adambrock/142056834/

6. Electricity 1.0 - buggy Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/smb_flickr/892015017/

7. Electricity 1.0 - Dumb! Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonwiley/1208632794/

8. Electricity 1.0 - Dumb! Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright/24691962/

9. Electricity 1.0 - Closed! Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/markusschoepke/72431367/

10. Electricity 1.0 - Architected for the Past Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/bakewell/35026819/

11. 2.0 self healing self provisioning

12. All was well(ish!), until... Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsinho/228010056/

13. Renewable energy Chart https://demanda.ree.es/demanda.html

14. Renewable energy

16. Storage Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/spo0ky/420291292/

17. Exotic storage solutions Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Minebw-large.jpg

18. Which leads to...

19. Exotic Storage solutions Image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Pumpstor_racoon_mtn.jpg

20. And this...

21. Solution? Make it a big Network!

22. Use proven principles Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexbip/247333777/

23. Use Publish/Subscribe Can't control supply? Then Manage Demand o Utilities publish prices o Consumers subscribe equipment responds accordingly o AKA Demand Response

24. Peak Shaving Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronlayters/13237817/

25. Peak Shaving Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/andybutkaj/441970348/

26. Demand Stimulation Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/m_alsaleh/2737919108/

27. Demand Stimulation Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigpogm/320545917/

28. The r/w grid - Microgeneration! Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdell/185642911/

29. Vehicle to Grid - r/w grid Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/54493249@N00/2243340775/

30. Infrastructure Requirements Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/eastpole/580765318/

31. Requirements Political will Political will and Political will

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

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