Our Energy Transition, The Role Of Social Media

Renewable resources are all dependent on our geographic location and, worse, we have no control over these resources, the key then is to increase our knowledge and predictability over these resources.

In any system of Risk Management, it is normal to see all scenarios, including the worst, do not wait for the variables that are not controlled, and act on the variables that we can control. Today, our main source of energy is Fossil Fuels and also our main source of CO2 emissions, promoted by human activity. Therefore, the reduction of CO2 emissions has huge energy cost, Fossil Fuels are the main resource for the care of our needs in the energy sector.

“Under Social Network” we can more than the "Governments", today we have many examples, using different approaches.

The push for the use of Renewable Energies, forces us to mitigate risks that come with progress and innovation.

In Networks, there are no rigidities in “Hierarchy or Titles or Rewards”, even so, the multiplier effects are virtually unpredictable, and produces remarkable results.

We are accustomed to working collaboratively to achieve the technical objectives well defined, and model of our institutions is not compatible with the "Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence" that is being born right now.

The collaboration has been disseminated by all types of institutions, and can evolve towards a better model, collaborative, in which people are involved all the time. The propagation of Renewable Energies is a common challenge in all places and "Information and Knowledge" may mitigate "Variability" associated with these energy sources.

This transition will structure our process of change in our energy matrix. And this change is on intensive use of Fossil Fuels to Renewable Fuels, which will define the evolution of our energy use in this century, and will bring profound changes in Global Economic Activity.

With so much complexity and variables involved is common to have different and a varied perceptions, resulting in the occurrence of diverse views about the need for transition in each Country and across Countries as well.

With so many visions, have been generating different approaches to take on the costs and risks of this change, and to further complicate this issue, we have to rush to mobilize the resources needed for their support.

The set of variables of these visions and approaches is emphasized from the very diversity and complexity of these costs.

Knowledge of the problems have differences between the actors involved, and not just in terms of “Cognitive Difficulty”, but also according to the different situations regarding the costs and also of the resources to be mobilized in this change.

There are several types of “Social Networks” and none is more important or better than another, they are just different.

Classification is comprehensive enough to include any type of network, but does not mean that a network only fits in one classification, and they are changing the way we see our global problems.

But the replacement of Fossil by Renewable, brings immense technological challenges, and give Renewable Fuels the same features present in the Fossil Fuels is not an easy task as renewable resources is conditional to "Variability ", and we have to change two of its characteristics essential, the “inability of storage and its low density”.

Localism present in Institutional Frameworks introduces a further difficulty, which to a global problem, "Global Warming and Climate Change," the solutions are conceived from a vision strongly local.

It is important to note that an analysis of the current World Energy Context and its future evolution is precisely its diversity and lack of consolidated examples that can be considered successful and therefore, replicable anywhere.

The Topology of Power Distribution, which will emerge resembles a hybrid solution, the core intelligence will grow depending on their maturity and extension.

Maxmillian Kwarteng
Energy and Environmental Manager
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