Nicholas Carr advised Internet companies to become more like utilities. In this talk I turn this on its head and show that the next generation Electricity companies will need to incorporate lessons from Web 2.0 to survive in the age of renewables.

1. Electricity 2.0
Using The Lessons Of the Web To
Improve Our Energy Networks

2. Tom Raftery
•Lead analyst, energy and
sustainability practice,
RedMonk
•GreenMonk.net
•twitter.com/tomraftery
•tom@redmonk.com
•+34 677 695 468

3. Which Switch?

4. Telecoms
Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg

5. Telecoms
Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1876_Bell_Speaking_into_Telephone.jpg

6. Telecoms
Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alexander_Graham_Bell.jpg Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/alt1040/2675256698/

7. Electricity
Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thomas_Edison.jpg Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/intimaj/111843868/

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

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

10. Electricity 1.0 - LAN!
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/adambrock/142056834/

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

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

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

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

15. Provisioning for Hits
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsinho/228010056/

16. Provisioning for Hits

17. OH NOES!
Chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RockyMtnGuy

18. Then along comes...
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsinho/228010056/

19. Renewable energy
Source - Red Eléctrica de España (http://www.ree.es)

20. Renewable energy
Source - http://www.eirgrid.ie

21. Renewable energy
Electricity
Wind Energy Wind
Demand
5GW max 0.9GW max
2006 6.5%
1.8GW min 0.0GW min

22. Renewable energy - 2020
Electricity
Wind Energy Wind
Demand
10GW max 6.3GW max
2025 40%
3.6 GW min 0.0GW min

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

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

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

26. Less Exotic Storage solutions!
Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/airport/154582232/

27. Which leads to...
Graph - http://www.eirgrid.ie

28. And this...

29. Solution? Make it a big Network!

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

31. Information
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/traftery/2888824539/

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

33. Peak Shaving in the home
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/andybutkaj/441970348/

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

35. Demand Stimulation in the home
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigpogm/320545917/

36. The Read/Write Grid
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdell/185642911/

37. Vehicle to Grid - p2p power?
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/54493249@N00/2243340775/

38. 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

39. To Know Me Is To Change Me
Photo http://www.currentcost.co.uk

40. To Know Me Is To Change Me
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/tristanf/2627886505/

41. Hacking Your Home Electric

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

43. Barriers to Participation?
Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinandrewstewart/93222089/

44. Quote
The electranet presumes that every citizen is a
producer and seller of electricity as well as a
consumer of electricity.
Jock Gill

45. Electricity 2.0
• Architecture of Participation
• Bottom up and top down
• Hackable
• Massive routable network
• Multiple Sources
• New entrants
• Open quot;API'squot;
• Publish and Subscribe
• Read and Write
• Sustainable

46. 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

47. Why is this critical?
If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in
the next two to three years will determine our future. This is
the defining moment.
Rajendra Pachauri
Chair IPCC