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Survive, Thrive or Decline?
With many examples of sectoral transformations up-ending other industries, there is much the power sector can learn from navigating its own transformation.
Like the modernising aerospace sector before it, a decarbonising electricity sector faces unprecedented new levels of whole-system complexity that now exceed many of its traditional tools, navigational approaches and organisational biases.
New levels of strategic imperative, futures-competence, structural agility and organisational learning, couple with best-in-class tools for ‘taming’ the inherently complex, will all be key to the organisations that shape the future.
A Gambit for Grid 2035
Systems Architecture
Australia is experiencing one of the fastest power system transformations on the planet and provides a window on the future for many jurisdictions.
It also illustrates the need for shared, evidence-based methodologies for enhancing multi-stakeholder collaboration and ‘taming’ deep complexity.
Australia’s national science agency CSIRO together with AEMO have spearheaded the nation’s contribution to the Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) initiative.
Under this initiative, Strategen Consulting undertook a detailed analysis of the wide range of global approaches to navigating this level of systemic complexity.
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