能源内部人员激发了电力未来的辩论

来自世界上许多最具创新性公司的电力球员自由分享他们有价值的，有时是有争议的，偶尔对美国电力部门最紧迫的担忧的不受欢迎的洞察力。

这是在岩石山学院的首届电力创新实验室点燃事件，部分旗舰GreenBiz边缘SF.关于可持续性和技术的事件必威体育2018。

在整个下午，在小组讨论和团体设置中，参与者今天考虑了当今电力部门中最刺激的变换和明亮的斑点，现在的合作机会，从现在开始，五年来，有什么需要发生的“星期一早晨”捕捉这些机会。

实际上是查塔姆屋规则在1927年设计的英国设计，在会议上提供匿名的封面，所以发言者在不担心公共报价和潜在的影响方面会让他们的思想感到更容易。

由RMI的团队指导，四小时E实验室点燃工作会议对“分发边缘的查找值”字样。

Elab成员包括国家和联邦能源调节机构;Avista等主要公用事业和网格运营商，NRG能量，太平洋燃气和电气，PJM互联，普吉特音耗和圣地亚哥燃气和电气;Sopodesk，Facebook，Hewlett Packard，微软和雅虎等科技公司;可再生和分布式能源创新者，包括清洁电力融资，普林斯顿力量，斯普雷，救世主和阳光;沃尔玛和美国海军等大能消费者;倡导者如环保基金，自然资源国防委员会和世界野生动物基金等倡导者：和投资者如有利地位。

会议的陈述目标是两倍：首先，了解，探索和点燃大型企业能源客户的机会与公用事业和其他电力系统利益相关者合作，其次，为大型企业能源客户确定新兴分布式能源解决方案。

许多参与者涉及关键挑战。以下是一些亮点，匿名释放和编辑空间和清晰度：

“Fifteen years ago, we thought technology could solve our problems. We thought all we had to do was invent the right technologies and deliver them to customers, and our problems would go away. The truth is we have learned that technology didn’t solve the problems. But we have also learned that technology has made huge headway. If we hadn’t gotten the price of solar to where we’ve gotten it over those 15 years, we wouldn’t be sitting in this room. Looking at a specific problem, let us think about how we can apply existing technologies to solve the problem."

“当我们开始时，我们将电气系统视为由公用事业和监管机构驱动的东西，我们随着客户接受的任何东西都被送走了。过去15年发生了什么是网格已成为更多的消费者为中心。“

“With all the focus on distributed energy resources, and what they are doing to the system, the analogy that comes to my mind is this: we are used to that nice, even concrete floor, but now it’s like walking over sand and you cannot get good traction. The debate in the industry is how or when will this new surface become more stable. When will it go back to that stable concrete floor? My answer to that is, that’s not happening. The situation has changed. Utilities, energy consumers and energy service providers are all creating optionality for themselves. How they interact with each other – that will come from self-interest. I don’t think everybody is going to sit around and say, ‘Let’s globally solve the problem.’ Everybody is going to optimize from their own perspective."

“As a utility customer, I think it’s kind of amazing the level of service we get from electric utilities – every day. The lights are on, our data centers are humming and they do serve their customers. What their customers want is cheap, clean, reliable energy. It is not a goal for us to have distributed energy; we do in some cases, but that is not our goal. So it’s really important to think about what problem we are trying to solve. And in the process it’s important to not destroy the system that’s actually given us really good service. For all the progress that we’ve made, which has been extraordinary in terms of cost, distributed energy isn’t there yet."

“公用事业do amazing things with the resources they put on the grid today on supply side, as part of their capital plans. But this runs us squarely into one of the institutional problems: if a utility makes money on capital and doesn’t make money on distributed energy resources, because the customer owns them, now we have an institutional puzzle that’s solvable – but it is not solved right now."

“我刚看到了一个非常有趣的统计数据：如果某些东西呈指数级增长，每年增加一倍，零率为零和100％。所以，在很多方面，我们已经过了太阳能的中途。如果我们添加EVS的指数增长，如果电池最终赶上，则指标是大规模的变化很快就会发生。“

“我不认为解决方案是100％清晰的。在技术水平上很清楚，但率设计，市场结构，监管问题不是。每个州都有自己的方法。”

“我们需要启用飞行员并展示技术。一个例子可能值得数千页的证词。”

“如果你有成功而没有人听到它，这是一项成功吗？我们需要让这些信息得到解决。”

“我们需要开始做像我们进行传输规划的分发规划。”

“我们不能让完美成为善的敌人。我们必须愿意牢记更大的目标。有些东西总比没有好。”

“我们需要岛屿的微电网像军队一样，捍卫网络攻击。“

“创新思维是不正常的。任何公司的普通员工都会得到长期以来做的事情。所以自满或常规取代了挑战的想法。创新思维，就像我们在这里一样，是你在这里的方式人们前进。“

“我将采取这些谈话，这不仅是鼓舞人心但有价值的，可以帮助我们在我们想去的地方，然后进入行动。”