Citizen Power Station proposes a new distributed utility model where citizens become independent power producers (IPPs) through roof-top solar and net metering. This allows citizens to sell excess electricity to the grid at 80% of the buy rate. It suggests time-of-use tariffs with no service fees to prevent grid defection. Smart meters would allow utilities to schedule household appliances to optimize electricity use. The proposal aims to grow the renewable energy economy while lowering costs for citizens and increasing revenue for utilities.

1. Citizen Power Station
David Lipschitz
9th April 2016
1 Hypothesis
Citizens want to work with their
utilities to grow the economy
Utilities want to
grow their revenue
But their revenue is decreasing and they are
fighting this with a system of higher tariffs
and service fees which are further damaging
their business model
Citizens want
Decreasing costs
Costs have decreased for many things, and allowed
almost everyone world wide to have a better standard
of living than in the past. Anyone with hot running
water and a warm house has more luxury than the
kings of the Middle Ages
Increasing income
In the past the focus
has been here
More timeCompanies want plentiful,
cheap, reliable, electricity
Staff power station
3 What don't we need?
Utilities are scared of
"grid defection"
I also don't want this because once someone has defected
from the grid, their possibility of interacting with the grid is
lost, and their ability to be a part of a new distributed utility
model is lost. And their ability to help the economy grow
faster is lost.
A loss of goodwill from the general
population to the utilities
4 A suggestion
Roof top owners become IPP's and
power stations and act like big users, as
part of the new utility model
IPP = Independent
Power Producer
With
NNEM, New
Net Metering
Electricity is banked. The client's sell
rate is 80% of the buy rate
Time Of Use Tariffs
With a new structure
and no service fee
No service fee because otherwise
there will be grid defection
Demand Response
Smart
Meters
Energy Booking
For cooking, washing machines, heavy loads
that can we requested and which need to run in
the next 6, 12, 24, 96 hours
Then the utility can choose when
to switch on these loads
Investments before
tax & before VAT
With Energy
Intensive User
Benefits
Special tariffs (2.7x)
Esco benefits
2 What do we need?
Citizen Capital
Knowledge
Intellectual Capital
The vaste value tied up
in peoples' assets
Citizen Science
So many citizens are "scientists", in many
cases with more knowledge that scientists in
laboratories or business schools
This knowledge has been gleaned with massive
reading, research, R&D, personal investment for
personal knowledge and benefit, with knowledge
gained at the coal face, on the ground, and
practically, not theoretically.
Many experts only give their own expertise,
even if it the wrong advice for the client, to
protect their jobs, and to protect their
investment in their expertise
Many citizens have put millions into disclosing
their science, sharing it at conferences, in
newspapers, in the press generally, in EIA's and
Invitation to Tenders and RFI's
EIA = Environmental
Impact Assessment
RFI = Request For
Information
Buy in
Social Capital
Rewards
An incentive program for the utility's
staff to reward them for changed
behaviors in the right direction
A loyalty program for clients to reward them for being
part of the system, eg Demand Response benefits can
be given in the form of points
5 David Lipschitz
What do I want
out of this?
A better, more healthier world, where the millennial goal
of electricity access to all is achieved in a sustainable,
environmentally friendly way, without use of fossil fuels,
and where health and time availability is increased, and
stress reduced
I believe that this should also be the vision of
utilities and business
The Awakened Company's
executives get the benefits of the
staff's "at home" family & social networks
This enhances the performance of the
people in the company & the
company's performance as well
Recognition
To earn a
reasonable
living
To work with like minded people
on making this happen
To develop a new program that helps people get
from "here" to "there", possibly using
Gamification techniques and incentives
6
David Lipschitz
Quick CV
Over 10,000 hours of
R&D since 2008
Over R4 million
invested in learning
Knowledge sharing
Very many letters, articles in
magazines, interviews on
radio & TV & CNBC
I've been in documentary movies
Conferences
Topics such as
Tariffs
NEM
Social Capital
Building grid tie and off
grid power stations
Energy Efficiency
Renewable Energy
Energy generally
Advisory Boards
Workshops
Including Net Metering,
Virtual Power Stations
Commenting
On EIA's
On IRP
Integrated
Resource Plan
Testimonials
Prizes, eg
WESSA
SAAEA
Life time membership for
services to Renewable
Energy in South Africa
Committees
Residents Association
GCTCA
Greater Cape Town
Civic Alliance
Energy portfolio
Ward Forum
Youth Movements
Formal Knowledge
Computer Science Honours
Degree (4 years full time), UCT
MBA (2 years part time Executive
MBA), Cranfield University
30 years software
development
18 years incentive and loyalty and
accounting system software
development and integration
Textiles, plastics, warehousing,
shipping accounting, EPOS
Full software
development life
cycle
Optimizing
databases and
queries
SQL, stored
procedures,
packages
Personal Development
Mind mapping expert
Excellent ability to summarize
things and explain complex
concepts in plain English
Meditation
Tai Chi since 2009
Tai Chi instructors
course since 2014
Bodhisattva
Project since 2010
Sport
Hiking,
swimming,
skiing
Started skiing at age 47
My Power Station
8 years energy business
development, consultant, &
speaking at conferences
7 Next steps
Contact David Lipschitz for a discussion, or hire David
for a day to come and discuss possibilities with you,
or put David on a retainer to help you make this
happen, or make David a Non Executive
Director on your board
Phone: +27 21 813 9895
From USA: 011 27 21 813 9895
Skype:
MyPowerStation
Email:
david@mypowerstation.biz
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