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The Renaissance of the Power Industry

Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio | Jun 23, 2009

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Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis is a very timely report in the July/August issue of Fast Company has an article byAnya Kamenetz.

The summary of the report says: "Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got."

The Electricity Without Price Controls (EWPC) Architecture Framework, that has emerged to replace the obsolete Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) Architecture Framework, is the necessary institutional foundation to start the renaissance of the power industry.

These are a selection of 5 recent recommended articles to get you introduced to the EWPC-AF:

  1. EWPC as a Timely Basic Innovation

As time goes by, an increasing number of people will agree that the EWPC creation is in fact a fundamental organizational innovation to restructure the global power industry to help enable a sustain...
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  1. Propelling the Power Industry to a Superior Solution Path

To raise the competitive balance of the power industry to a superior solution path, “public utility commissions … have to let go of their authority to regulate rates at the retail level.&...
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  1. Just as Pogo, IOUs Found the Enemy

Just as everybody else, power industry investors win by changing their IOUs paradigm mental model. Well in agreement with the insights of three DOE’s Electricity Advisory Committee reports, a tr...
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  1. I will Tell You Who is Going to Get the Power

This is a comment posted under the article You Tell Us, by Willie D. Jones, that was first published in the January 2009 issue of the IEEE Spectrum online. I will Tell You Who is Going to Got the P...
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  1. Renewable Power and Smart Grid as Parts of a Whole

It is argued that the smart grid is not the lifeline of renewable power. Instead, what´s holding both is the Investor Owned Utility paradigm. Renewable Power and Smart Grid are Parts of a...
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Wed, 06/24/2009 - 7:21pm
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Michael Bobzien

Thu, 06/25/2009 - 6:31pm
Great!
Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio

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