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 producers
or for the managers and it also easier for the consumers, so you play the deploy and, and,
and a job and deploy, plug and play solution. So, that's where we borrowed that.
So, that's what we're planning to do in the next year. And hopefully, if you are, 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
is pretty short as the last minute. And so that is all for my presentation.
Yes, sure, go ahead. Anybody have any questions about the yes, go ahead.
So I was wondering, so it's an organization, the framework, which is
you said something about physical dimensions, but I guess also about communication.
Yes, yes, they gave to the internet. So you want to have this open and then
the different companies would implement it then by themselves. So you
use this framework and then all the whatever inverted companies and
concrete companies, which integrated or how do you plan to
to spread this and how it should be used with this.
Yes, a great 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.
There's a hardware equipment specification. That's like a Facebook and a 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 ease it with deploy.
One more. Yes.
Now, a cabinet was more like a photo. It's an outdoor. So it needs to be like a weatherproof,
fireproof, you know, windproof, all the kind of thing. Yes. Because you put it
outside. So it needs to be able to do it.