“Below is a summary and analysis of key points, addressing potential question of how VPP concept has evolved or been realized by 2025, given the document’s forward-looking vision toward 2020…”
There are a number of omissions in the support of this solution. The largest of course is the advent and growth of AI with its voracious appetite for power far surpassing the efficiency of this concept.
In addition to the above, the article assumes an unsupported projection of growth of EVs; challenges to solar, wind energy and storage at scale that are further handicapped by the difficulty of permitting and financing new transmission to reach those renewables. Even as some these hurdles have been overcome they have hamstrung grids with their intermittent supply and artificial integration into those grids stymying development of a resilient backbone of thermal energy.
There are a number of omissions in the support of this solution. The largest of course is the advent and growth of AI with its voracious appetite for power far surpassing the efficiency of this concept.
In addition to the above, the article assumes an unsupported projection of growth of EVs; challenges to solar, wind energy and storage at scale that are further handicapped by the difficulty of permitting and financing new transmission to reach those renewables. Even as some these hurdles have been overcome they have hamstrung grids with their intermittent supply and artificial integration into those grids stymying development of a resilient backbone of thermal energy.
You are right, Adrian. AI is reinventing the way we look at the world. My piece is dated.