Give Engineers What Belongs to Engineers

Engineers no longer have any possibility to take back the whole industry for themselves. EWPC is a market architecture and design breakthrough discovery that gives engineers what belongs to engineers - the reliable planning, operation and control of the machine and the transportation system - and that gives business people what belongs to them - the money (no the electrical) activities of the value chain

Give Engineers What Belongs to Engineers

By José Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio, Ph.D.

Systemic Consultant: Electricity

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In the good old days engineers didn't need mandatory standards. Today they don't need them either, especially when they are an afterthought to fix convoluted incremental extensions away from the vertically integrated utilities paradigm.

As Tracy Rolstad wrote, standards compliance by fines is misplaced. The problem is there are important systemic delays which system planners need to approach several years earlier.

However, the good all engineering days are gone forever. Engineers no longer have any possibility to take back the whole industry for themselves. EWPC is a market architecture and design breakthrough discovery that gives engineers what belongs to engineers - the reliable planning, operation and control of the machine and the transportation system - and that gives business people what belongs to them - the money (no the electrical) activities of the value chain. Please read the article Engineers Needed for Lower Prices where many important questions about a reliable and cost effective power system formulated several years ago by Jack Casazza are responded with the EWPC paradigm.

The reason why lawyers remain in control is because they control a business model of winning rate case to regulators. As the industry is opened to competition they no longer will have that power.

For more details on EWPC please read the Electricity Without Price Controls Blog in the Energy Central Network where 28 other articles are already posted.

Reference and context: NERC-CIP: 'Critical' or in 'Critical Condition'?, by Warren Causey, Vice President, and Mike Smith, Senior Vice President, Sierra Energy Group.