Dear respected colleagues,
The following EPRI article by Prof. Ellen Williams is recently published in the EPRI journal,
http://eprijournal.com/from-synchrophasors-to-flow-batteries-a-view-along-the-learning-curve/
Due to its valuable analyses and insights, I decided to share it here, and to request discussing its contents. Please consider to focus on the section entitled “What challenges and gaps need to be addressed for momentum in innovation?” In particular, I guess that every researcher and manufacturer should carefully and seriously consider the declaration : “Power companies have to be very conservative about what they put in their system. They have to be sure that a new technology won’t disrupt power delivery. As a result, getting a new technology into the system requires a lot of prior demonstration, so that when it goes online it’s certain to be reliable and effective.” , and “The other challenge is the regulatory complexity of the power system. Effective technical solutions can run into regulatory hurdles, and this is outside the comfort zone of most technology developers.”
A similar set of challenges arise in the drive to the more and all electric aircraft, where regulatory issues are the rate defining factor. There is interest in co-developing new technologies with the power industry, given that future aircraft systems will operate at higher powers (and voltages) in a difficult environmental regime. The learning curve is equally difficult in both industries.
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