Sustainable Energy Now AGM on Monday 12 September 2016
Presenting Perth-based Futurist Professor Ray Wills as our keynote speaker who will take us on a fascinating journey into what smart cities might look like by 2040 and how quickly we can adapt to "disruptive technologies"
More info from http://raywills.net/rtwtechadopt.html
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Preparing for the (Clean) Tech Tsunami of the 21st Century
1. Preparing for the 21C tech tsunami
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Prof Ray Wills
Managing Director
Future Smart Strategies
Partner and Director
Sun Brilliance Power
Adjunct Professor
The University of Western Australia
2. How to be a
better surfer
What’s happening
globally with
new tech?
Where is all this
new tech taking us?
What do markets tell us all about how quickly disruptive
technologies will impact on everything?
How do we prepare ourselves and our towns and cities for
mind-boggling rapid change?
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
(Niels Bohr)
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6. Technology adoption rates – US
Renewables – ‘it’s just technology, stupid’
Solar panels are VCRs, not dishwashers
Batteries will be, too
@ProfRayWillsNY Times
24. A swarm, a cluster, a wave, a tsunami
20th Century: Command and Control
21st Century: Suggest & Choose
– local, distributed, democratic
– open source, exponential innovation
Renewable energy, EVs, batteries
eRetail and market-led marketing
iEverything – Internet of Things (IoT) + sensors
Automation, hybrids, AI & CI, robotics, robility
3D printing, additive manufacturing, construction
Finance, banking, insurance – and crowd-funding
Suggest & Choose driving supply chain from bottom
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34. Solar gen 2, gen 3, gen 4 …
1st gen solar cell made from silicon
2nd gen solar cell thin-films
1st gen solar panels ‘fixed-on’
2nd gen emerging – building material: < cost labour, material
3rd gen solar cell – may be nanotubes, silicon wires, organic
dyes, and conductive plastics – lead to solar inks for printing,
solar paint on any surface, personal wearables.
36. Solar on Australian homes
1.6 million solar installs in Australia, total 5 GW of capacity; output
estimated 6100 GWh of electricity in the 12 months to June 2016.
WA – 207k rooftops with solar, a total of 600 MW of solar capacity
Mandurah (postcode 6210) – over 9.6k homes, 23.3 MW of capacity
38. WA’s largest …
Sun Brilliance 100MW+ DC solar
165ha farm Cunderdin
WA wheatbelt, east of Perth
Development to break new
ground on a number of fronts in
the Australian solar market
Not shutting capacity – taking it
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39. Solar and storage fight energy poverty
Developing nations can meet modest domestic power
needs with solar.
Means storage is already economically affordable.
40. Smart grids devices and buildings –
and microgrids…
Integrated energy planning smart devices (not grids) to
coordinate the actions of devices such as loads &
generators
Distributed generation changes utility paradigm
41. We need governments to act …
Wind
Efficiency Solar
Biomass
Hydro Waves/Tidal
Hydrothermal
Geothermal
44. World’s largest …
taxi company owns no taxis (Uber)
hotel chain owns no property (AirBnB)
telcos own no wires (Skype, WeChat)
retailers own no stock (Ebay, Alibaba)
financial houses that hold no currency (PayPal)
media service creates no content (Facebook)
movie house owns no cinemas (Netflix)
software vendors don’t write apps (Apple, Google)
Will largest energy companies generate no energy?
The battle field is the slickest customer interface
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