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This is quite useful to better understand the likely development that solar tech in combination with rapid efficiency improvements paired with scale-driven cost reductions in batter tech will do to the energy utilities. I personally like the outlook of a total democratization of the energy production. I guess it will take quite a bit more time when it comes to “total”, but the consumer segment with residential customers being able to “cord cut” in terms of energy supply will speed up the energy market disruption.

“Several of the big trends in clean electricity depend, in one way or another, on batteries. How fast batteries get better and cheaper will help determine how fast renewable energy grows, how fast fossil fuel power plants get shut down, and how fast the vehicle fleet electrifies. The consulting firm McKinsey & Company recently released an analysis noting that batteries, like solar panels before them, are getting cheaper much faster than anyone expected — and the consequences for the power sector are going to be immense…”

I would like to share some of my thoughts on key developments that I believe will determine our lives in the upcoming two decades. Almost all of this is fueled by ever more accelerating technological progress and there are a lot of opportunities in it. As well as significant challenges.

Looking back at the perceived principle of the industrial age, where growth occurred or seemed to occur in a linear function, today we know about Moore’s Law. We have been able to observe it for the last 50 years where over time it became clearer that we have a doubling of computing power roughly every 1,5 years.

Now how does that apply in our everyday life? Where do we actually see that technologies get more and more “disruptive”? To show that this is not about buzzwords, here are a couple of examples for “wow” type of developments: Continue reading “Where accelerating technological Development will lead us in the next 15-20 years (André Cramer)” →

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Great Read on the bleak outlook for Energy Utilities: Utilities fighting against rooftop solar are only hastening their own doom… Batteries are going to make rooftop solar invulnerable (David Roberts)

Where accelerating technological Development will lead us in the next 15-20 years (André Cramer)

Cheap & Abundant Solar Energy is Coming: In the next 20 years, between 50 to 100 % of the world’s energy production could come from solar (Peter Diamandis)