The document discusses challenges facing the energy industry and opportunities for increased efficiency through automation, decentralized production, and internet of things (IoT) technologies. Key points include: 1) The energy industry must find 30-50% efficiencies over 10 years through automation without changing user habits and more radical changes to production and distribution. 2) Opportunities exist in automating energy use for end users, managing production based on conditions, shortening transmission lines, and decreasing investment risks through decentralization. 3) IoT, big data analysis, smart metering, and demand prediction can help shift energy use, control distributed generation and storage, and improve the energy grid. 4) While IoT opens opportunities to disrupt

2. Light bulb versus coal

3. Problems of energy
industry
• Large losses and no accumulation ☞
opportunity
• No one wants to have power plant in their
backyard
• Raw (energy-primary) materials are
available sparsely and in politically
volatile regions mostly
• Enough cheap energy is basis for all
production and manufacturing

4. Power grid of
yesterday

5. Today’s reality

6. Task for power industry of
st
21 century is finding
efficiency
• Savings for end users: efficient savings
without significant change of user habits
through automation
(where “efficient” = 30-50 % in 10
years)
• Savings in production: Radical change
of production and distribution setup
(where “radical” = 1 generation)

7. So, how to save ...
• Thorough automation for end users clever algorithms
• Manage production according to
present conditions
• Shorten transmission lines
• Decrease investment risks
So, go decentralised, right?

8. Improvement: from simple to
complex grid

9. Task for Smart Grid and
Smart Metering
• Knowledge of individual user
energy profile
• Ability to predict demand and
respond on real time with supply
• Time-shift energy intense
activities
• Provide feedback for control of
CHP (combined heat and power),
PV and energy storage

10. Conclusions about
IoT
• Internet of Things is important for
improvement. It can help everywhere,
where we need to step up efficiency of
current resources.
• IoT is just a technology. To be clever is
your part of the game.
• IoT never comes without Big Data &
Smart Data Analysis.

11. Role of IoT & Big Data &
Analysis
• Analysis of discrete data streams.
• Finding hidden dependencies and trends.
• Prediction of future conditions of systems.
• Possibility to predict unpredictable.

12. Risks and / or Issues
• Increased complexity brings susceptibility
to errors.
• The system is de-facto closed and
therefore hard to audit.
• Possible problems can be massive and
can escalate exponentially. Few experts
really understand and can solve troubles.
• Mustn’t underestimate backup plan, which
we usually like to do.

13. •
Homework for
Webexpo 2035internet
We are on the cusp of interwoving
into all other industries (after IT, telco and
media).
• Huge opportunity to disrupt markets: lower
prices, better customer relationship,
increased satisfaction, availability and
quality of service.
• High risk transition, disruption of status
quo and increseas complexity.

14. See opportunity?
Anticipate risks?

15. thank you for your attention
patrick zandl
www.energomonitor.cz