Did a Paradigm Shift Emerge in the 24 Hours of the IEEE Spectrum Smart Grid 2025 Game?

Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio | Mar 21, 2011

        

This is part of my experience in more that 20 engagements, together with many other players, in my attempt to get the attention of participants on the emerging, simple, holistic, Electricity Without Price Controls Architecture Framework (EWPC-AF) paradigm shift away of the obsolete, complex, fragmented, Investor Owned Utilities Architecture Framework (IOUs-AF) in all of its current mix of incremental extensions forms. Was I able to progress with the EWPC-AF in just 24 hours, more that what I have done in the EWPC Blog in more than three years and a half, with close to 650,000 views, more than 250 blog posts entries (many of them articles) and more than 850 comments?

Identified as the EWPC-AF_Creator, I played on about 19 of the 24 hours of the Smart Grid 2025 Game, that was set up in the Foresight Engine’s forecasting platform of the Institute For The Future (IFTF) and organized in concert with and funded by the IEEE Spectrum. One may also question, if the massive parallel game itself was successful?

Expecting that anyone is able to see the very rich information IFTF Foresight Engine’s Dashboard, with all the cards played, and much more, like the awards, at this moment, the last blog news update read as follows:

That’s a Wrap!

Posted onMarch 18, 2011 by admin

Thanks for playing Smart Grid 2025. With almost 700 players producing almost 5000 ideas, this has been an amazing experience inventing the future of the Smart Grid.

Please keep an eye on this space–  with all the data so that you technically minded people can do some voodoo on the data to see what our game guides missed.

We look forward to playing more with you in the future, but for now, thanks!

**Update – Thanks for your patience. We now have a csv file for y’all to parse. Download the file here! Looking forward to the results — please post them in the comments here, or include #smartgrid2025 in your twitter posting of them!

Trying to “keep and eye” on said space “… to see what our game guides missed,” if any, the longest play engagement initiated by me as the EWPC-AF_Creator has 60 ideas, most of which came in a kind of exponential fashion. As expected by the IFTF, of the 11 complementary engagements I started, among the 153 ideas that I played, only two other had more 30 plays. That I think was part of good focused play.

In what can now be tagged as #Big_Picture, the first play was the Positive Imagination micro-forecast “Consider a paradigm shift away from the current Investor Owned Utilities Architecture Framework (IOUs-AF) and its incremental extensions.”

As can be seen below, there were 21 ideas by a total of 7 other players. Next is how the first 20 of the 60 cards were played, organized in hierarchical order, instead of chronological order. Please hit Part II and Part III to see the other ideas played. Maybe other players can reconstruct the plays of their engagements to respond to the action call by admin.

35	3/17/2011 16:03	\N	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Positive Imagination	Consider a paradigm shift away from the current Investor Owned Utilities Architecture Framework (IOUs-AF) and its incremental extensions	0	2	0
111	3/17/2011 16:20	35	syzygy6	268	Investigation	what are some other paradigms to replace the IOU-AF, or other models to emulate?	3	1	0
3838	3/18/2011 11:04	111	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	As shown, there is at least one Big_Picture paradigm for the power industry as a whole : the EWPC-AF	1	0	0
286	3/17/2011 16:43	35	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	The IOUs-AF was a great model to follow up to near 1970. From there on it became a vicious circle. In EPAct 92 an architecting flaw came in	0	0	0
340	3/17/2011 16:48	35	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	There is at least one that I created to replace the IOUs-AF and the current models that resulted from its complex incremental extensions	0	0	0
362	3/17/2011 16:51	35	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Momentum	Consider a Minimalist Architecture to enable a holistic discovery of the emerging Electricity Without Price Controls Architecture Framework	5	0	0
1341	3/17/2011 18:50	362	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Momentum	Sort out the highest architecting priorities and select key system properties to let others game participants use their creative freedom	0	0	0
3091	3/18/2011 3:17	362	vercingetorix	411	Momentum	This minimalist architecture could be a simple sensor and a blue tooth or wi-fi connection. With ad-hoc connectivity.	39	6	0
3105	3/18/2011 3:26	3091	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Antagonism	The minimalist architecture is not micro, but macro. It applies to the #Big_Picture of the whole power industry.	19	5	0
3302	3/18/2011 5:07	3105	vercingetorix	411	Investigation	Please define Minimalist Arch?	9	4	0
3756	3/18/2011 10:17	3302	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	Minimalist Architecture (MA) was defined by Bredemeyer Consulting	1	0	0
3760	3/18/2011 10:19	3302	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	MA Principle: \Sort out what your highest priority architectural requirements are and do the least you possibly can to achieve them\""	1	0	0
3763	3/18/2011 10:22	3302	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	What are the only justifiable MA reasons for restricting the creative freedom of other game participants? (adapted from Bredemeyer)	1	0	0
3766	3/18/2011 10:23	3302	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	MA \... demonstrable contribution to strategic and systemic properties that otherwise could not be achieved\""	1	0	0
3101	3/18/2011 3:23	362	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	The Minimalist Architecture refers to the power industry as a whole, to help enact an energy policy for the best possible future for the SG	0	0	0
3104	3/18/2011 3:25	3101	serenosaur	308	Investigation	Would an industry without price controls have wildly fluctuating value and cost, at least at the beginning?	1	0	0
3116	3/18/2011 3:31	3101	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	NO! The high volatility of incomplete markets are mitigated by complete markets. The #EWPC-AF centers its attention in greater elasticity.	0	0	0
1310	3/17/2011 18:44	35	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Investigation	#EWPC-AF -Electricity Without Price Controls Architecture Framework. #IOUs-AF -Investor Owned Utilities Architechture Framework & extensions	0	0	0
116	3/17/2011 16:21	49	EWPC-AF_Creator	55	Momentum	What about using systems architecting to enable a synthesis for the new market mechanism including social, economic, and political systems	2108915	32	0
140	3/17/2011 16:24	116	ligtvoet	387	Adaptation	More work for the academics!	1054457	31	0

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