The power of transformation

Abstract

The answer to the question, how is man empowered to change? can be given in this form: We are empowered to change when we experience trust and acceptance coming to us from another person or group. Change occurs when our power of being is affirmed by other centers of power. This affirmation of our power of being overcomes the anxiety of nonbeing implied in every change. It supplies us with the courage to accept our acceptance and to exist in spite of threats to our existence. The content of trust in our experiencing that has taken the place of the prior anxiety in our experiencing reduces the disturbances that distorted our perception of reality. This enables us to receive reality more accurately and to symbolize it more exactly. Change then is an internal metamorphosis that is the result of a courage educed in us by external forces. The transformation of our internal experiencing is the prior condition and ground for the transformation of our symbolizations.

Barriers to flexibility in the district energy-electricity system interface – A taxonomy

“…Flexibility has many definitions. IEA [10], Cochran et al [27] and Ma et al [28] assign an ability to an asset in the energy system within a given time-frame, e.g. short term operational response by generation or demand in the electricity system.…”

“…DE technological conditions -In the investment phases, technological conditions deal with technology types, their associated costs and maturity, while they in the operation phase relate to the technical ability to operate flexibly. Adjustability (span between minimum and maximum generation level), ramping (the speed at which generation can be changed) and lead time (the advance notice required to be available) is based on IEA's [10] definition of flexible operation. A fundamental challenge is if the technology is adequate to satisfy the desired operational capabilities [38,51,52].…”

“…Regarding volatility, solutions include improving pricereflective signals by higher granularity geographically or temporally (e.g. bids based on minutes instead of hours) [10].…”

“…flexibility regarding use and generation of electricity, not flexible use or generation of fuels such as gas. [10] and [18].…”

Increased heat-electricity sector coupling by constraining biomass use?

“…sectors based on different energy carriers such as heating and electricity, is a pertinent measure for improving overall energy-and economic efficiency [1,2]. Benefits include the ability to use the least cost technologies to satisfy energy demands, and the ability to flexibly balance and integrate the electricity production from variable renewable energy (VRE -here wind power and solar photovoltaics (PV)) [3]. VRE integration can be achieved in the heating sector, by utilising VRE-based electricity for heating purposes.…”