The Benefits of Digitalisation for Energy Transition (IET Central London Network October Evening Lecture)
Man-Maths. Noun: the process of making the hopelessly unaffordable seem unequivocally financially logical. See also: denial, head in sand, massive balloon. Man-maths was the concept Rod Buchanan used to illustrate how head over heart prevailed when he made the financially driven decision to change cars from a large three litre Audi to a Tesla. This was not an easy choice as the car, known as “ Harry ”, was obviously part of the family. Rod's journey from the defence industry (fast jets) through autonomous systems (R2D2) to becoming a Tesla owning Chief Technology Officer of Amp X has happened at a time of Energy Transition. More and more households are adopting technologies such as Electric Vehicles, Heat Pumps and Airconditioning which add to the load on the distribution grid whilst only…