SIZE MATTERS - WHY LOCK OUT THE EU CLEAN ENERGY PACKAGE SOLUTION?
Dudley Stewart
Managing Director - Micro Electricity Generation Association (MEGA) & Charleville Castle - cityxchange
In the Energy Transition "size matters"
In the electricity distribution end of the rapid Energy Transition - small embraces people as solution providers of high granularity/proximity flexibility solutions for local area seamless balancing and energy/power quality rectification and control. Here Small Size Matters.
But also "Size Matters" because low scale leads to high price e.g. one electrician can sometimes service 20 machines a day but if there is only 1 machine to look after the cost is 20 times higher. Also worth noting is the contra-indicator: Solar PV costs became affordable because "Size Matters" - the bigger the market, production line and certainty the lower the cost. Here Big Size Matters.
But read the book "Small is beautiful" written so long ago by Schumacher and I hope in there you will find proof (proven by life experience) that sometimes "small size matters" most ... but there again, from the Solar PV Story, sometimes Big Size Matters.......
The increasing erratic flows of electricity in the Electricity Distribution Network (causing device burn-out and power outages) is yet to be understood fully as a key indicator that small size matters as does locality or proximity or granularity and speed of response and sensitivity ....... these new important potentialities are possible only by completely involving people in the electricity system ... not as slaves to the electricity system but as key problem solvers (Prosumers & Prosumer Communities) with organisation, and operating codes, acceptable to both the Electricity System and the Prosumer?.... moderated, of course, by a fair transparent Regulator (armed nowadays with advanced digital technology systems - right?) ........ so why are we all afraid to talk about this new Energy Transition Reality? Will we watch the system crumble without any attempt to discuss/converse on it - or just leave to the radicals to protest .... ?
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Or could it just simply be that the Energy Industry is backed with bosses who share the attributes of the majority of army generals in World War 1 - hold onto their own power and position no matter how many soldiers are slaughtered unnecessarily?
I ask the question because I share the table with a significan number of these "generals" and hear well what is spoken. But I am most interested in your views not mine.
Many thanks