Tuesday, December 19, 2017

The Fundamental Architecture of Energy Networks is Evolving

As you have all heard me say (probably to excess) utility networks are going to a redundant ring architecture on the long haul and metro rings and mesh in the local, mirroring advanced telecom networks and distributed generation and storage nodes will look just like an Internet for electrons instead of digital bits.

 

I was very happy to see that this guy agrees:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/10/nyregion/how-new-york-city-gets-its-electricity-power-grid.html

 

“We have a system which is energy-inefficient because it was never designed to be efficient,” said Richard L. Kauffman, the state’s so-called energy czar, who is leading its plans to reimagine the power grid. ”It’s like a

mainframe computer in the age of cloud computing”, he added, “and with climate change, the state has to “rethink that basic architecture.”

 

SOURCE, 2017 New York Times: Richard Kauffman, Chairman of Energy & Finance for New York (Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo),

Chair of the NYSERDA Board in 2017 New York Times.

 

 

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