Okay, let's get started, my name is Chris Sheer, I'm the resource head of
resource strategy at the future way, and I'm also the chair for the
Auras working group at the Lenders Foundation Energy.
Today, my topic on my talk is exploring the Auras Open Renewable Energy
Systems. Last year, I was here to present it, and this year, just to present
some latest updates for the Auras Working Group.
I live in Static Valley, which is the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
There is a place called Masel Landing in Montgomery, California, which is about
1.5 hours drive south of my home. Just a couple of weeks ago, there was a big fire,
and that first was a battery energy storage facility.
And that facility was used by PGIE Pacific Gas Electric, which is our home's
power utility service company. This company was famous because a few years ago,
California, not in California, there were fires.
A number of huge fires from the forest. And in the forest, a week ago, there are
like a heavy metal ingredients, stuff that is around the residential area, because of this
fire. And that fire is a particular from the battery facility, with a long, long batteries.
So we see there is a centralized challenge, a power supply, basically with the power
systems. And these systems are, what happened if we do this in the decentralized
situation, the decentralized entity, right? And PGIE realized there is a challenge there.
So they have started to implement some of the solutions, like the distributed solutions
that they are working with, Tesla Powerwall. So several of my colleagues have installed
Tesla Powerwall in their homes, and they participate in the PGIE program.
It's more like a virtual program where I was told that before there is a weather event
or there is huge demand, the PGIE will fill out their home batteries for them.
And the next day, if there is event, then they will just drain out the battery, so that they
can supply the local communities. So people who can, you know, use all the
Tesla Powerwall, but that's a proper solution. It's very hard. And if you want to
expand the batteries, it's going to be very costly. And you cannot think of it, you cannot
change it. You have to hire contractors, go your home, that's very expensive, too
expanded, or too anything else with it. So there is alternative, this is the open solutions,
and that's what OS comes into play. So what is OS? So the OS is short for open, you
knowable energy systems. It is not a product, it's not a software, it's not a hard work,
but it is a specification. It is a framework that allows people, vendors to develop their
own open, disaggregated energy solutions. So the key value position is that, as I said,
you know, this is an open source solution. It's the open solution. It's a different from
black box, it's open. And our aim is to make it a simple installation and integration.
And it's a modular design and then linearly scalable. This is the overall architecture
of the OS system. Now we have power productions from like a smart solar panels and wind turbines,
and there are smart batteries. And we have all the, this process, we have added a module
called a Wi-Fi sensor switch, where the home house load. For example, you're
macrower oven, your coffee maker, you can just plug it into this Wi-Fi switch sensor,
and then you will inform the controller. If there's a load, you will give the signal to the controller
and the controller can inform the batteries to release to your local home grid instead of getting
power from the public grid. So, so this, I mentioned, this is a standardization effort,
it's our standardization. So the purpose of this standardization is to allow standardized
uniform architecture. Allow, so we have borrowed this concept from the data center in
the cloud data center, where you have all the cabinets. And you can have standard specifications.
You can plug in the servers, you can plug in the storage devices. So, so that you can,
you can, you can standardize on this one factor so that you can enable
manufacturer to, to build a standard equipment, and easier for the, either for the producer
for the monitors and also easier for the consumers. So you place it, deploy and, and,
drop and deploy, plug and place solution. So that's, we borrowed that. So that's,
what we're planning to do, what's the next year. And hopefully, if people are interested,
people are interested, you can join us, we connect to my LinkedIn and also the
Auras GitHub so that you can help contribute and since we have a 10 minutes
talk it's pretty short at the last minute and so that is all for my
presentation yes sure go ahead anybody have any question about the yes go
ahead so I was wondering so it's anization framework which is you
said something about physical dimensions but I guess also about communication
yes you see a gear to be implemented so you want to have this open and then
the different companies would implement it then by themselves so you if this
framework and then all the whatever inverted companies and concrete companies
which integrated or how you plan to to spread this and how it should
be used if it's a good question the question is how would you develop the
standard so companies can adopt and this is where following the very playbook
from the OCP the open compute platform or open 19 there's another standard for
data center equipment the hardware equipment specification that's like a
Facebook and Google Microsoft they're all kind of adopting that so we're trying
to borrow that concept into this renewable energy system so it makes it easier for
manufacturers for you know the big cloud service providers they use this because
they have massive departments and if we have the same nature of the massive
department in our communities we need that kind of a concept as well to help
lower the cost and easy to deploy
that cabinet was more like for the outdoor so it used to be like weather proof fire
proof you know the proof of the kind of thing yes because you put it outside so
you need to be able