preparing for the (clean) tech tsunami of the 21st century
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Preparing for the 21C tech tsunami
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Prof Ray Wills
Managing DirectorFuture Smart Strategies
Partner and DirectorSun Brilliance Power
Adjunct ProfessorThe University of Western Australia
How to be abetter 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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Roger’s diffusion curve
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Wake up and smell the roses
Buggy whips -> combustion engine -> EVs? (Electric) typewriter -> word processor -> PC PC -> desktop -> laptop -> tablet Landline -> mobile -> smartphone (BlackBerry) Record shops Vinyl -> CD -> (Apple Store) VHS/Beta -> DVD -> BlueRay -> Cloud Book Shops Boutique -> mega -> (Amazon) Retail shop-> Boutique-> chain/mega -> Internet Energy -> chopping wood -> coal -> wind -> solar
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Technology adoption rates – US
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Technology adoption rates – US Renewables – ‘it’s just technology, stupid’ Solar panels are VCRs, not dishwashers Batteries will be, too
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The Big Bang Theory
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Technology adoption rates - vehicles
Zoepf 2011
Technology adoption - manufacturers
Zoepf 2011
Technology adoption rates - Govt
Zoepf 2011
A Brief Moment in Time
Predicting anything is difficult
Predicting anything is difficult
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And don’t forget the old tech exit
Declining PV price
Bloomberg NEF
Solar rising – by falling
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Global renewables growth …
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Global renewables growth and forecast
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Build it and they will come
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Storage will be simply a common commodity
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Global energy – fossil & renewables
Global energy – fossil & renewables
Global energy – impact on emissions
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-fundingSuggest & Choose driving supply chain from bottom
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Data driven electric markets …
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Potential EV growth
Autonomous
Rapid change - robility
Batteries – home storage + EVs
Robotics will aid every one – but erode every labor market
Robotics will aid every one – but erode every labor market
Traffic management will be controlled by traffic – social media data
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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.
Solar as just another consumer product
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
Solar in Western Australian towns
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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Solar and storage fight energy poverty Developing nations can meet modest domestic power
needs with solar. Means storage is already economically affordable.
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
We need governments to act …
Wind
Efficiency Solar
Biomass Hydro Waves/Tidal
Hydrothermal
Geothermal
We need governments to act – but… World faiths promising to act
We need governments to act – but… Companies promising to act
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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