Governing the Future’s Power System: toward a method of guided self-organisation for the Smart Grid

Viktoras  Veitas; Francis Heylighen; Tor-Eigil Hodne; Marta Lenartowicz; David. R Weinbaum; Shima Beigi

Governing the Future’s Power System: toward a method of guided self-organisation for the Smart Grid

Viktoras Veitas, Francis Heylighen, Tor-Eigil Hodne, Marta Lenartowicz, David. R Weinbaum, Shima Beigi

Department of Civil Engineering

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This technical report sketches the context for implementing a European Smart Super Grid, in which electricity generation and distribution would become much less centralised, involving a variety of prosumers that both produce and consume power. It conceives this future energy network as a complex adaptive system that cannot be controlled in a traditional, top-down manner. Instead it proposes that we should develop a distributed governance model based on guided self-organisation: supporting the different stakeholders in developing a synergetic, win-win arrangement that furthers both the stakeholders' individual interests, and collective, agreed-upon values, such as sustainability, resilience and distributed intelligence.

Original language	English
Number of pages	13
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2015

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3 Conference Abstract
2 Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
1 Article (Academic Journal)

Evidence for the value of a systemic approach to infrastructure delivery
Carhart, N., Beigi, S., Ersoy, A. & Taylor, C., 2016, (E-pub ahead of print).
Research output: Working paper
Resilience as a necessary capacity to sustain coherence in an Autopoietic and Dissipative Whole
Beigi, S., 13 Jan 2016, (In preparation) In: Ecology and Society. p. 1 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
An adaptive urban planning for 21st century: exploring the application of resilience thinking in the context of urban ecosystems in Iran: 2015 Canberra Conference on Earth System Governance
Beigi, S. & Hajibandeh, M., 20 Apr 2015, p. 1. 1 p.
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Evidence for the value of a systemic approach to infrastructure delivery

Resilience as a necessary capacity to sustain coherence in an Autopoietic and Dissipative Whole

An adaptive urban planning for 21st century: exploring the application of resilience thinking in the context of urban ecosystems in Iran: 2015 Canberra Conference on Earth System Governance

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