Keynote Address Details

Abstract

The regulated utility model with a centralized grid where dispatched generation follows load has been very effective for over 100 years! The grid, however, is rapidly changing with Exponential Technologies (Computation, PV solar, wind, power semis, electric transportation, storage, microcontrollers, sensors, IoT, communication technologies, block-chain, cloud, autonomous control, deep learning) where traditional control paradigms are breaking down. Utilities would like to centrally control the ‘smart’ edge devices on the grid...but this is not scalable to millions of nodes. A decentralized paradigm will be required for the future!