What Will Disrupt The Power Industry? A Little Bit Of Empathy.

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It’s a great time to be working on innovation in the power sector. Technology advancements that were once thought to be fringe (to the sector), are now coming mainstream. Utilities are starting to develop their solar panel deployment strategies as the <a href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/research/report/us-solar-pv-system-pricing-h2-2016" target="_blank">price of solar continues to plummet</a> (image below), the <em>‘wait and see approach</em>’ that was prevalent in 2016 due to political uncertainty is now giving way to ‘<a href="http://www.publicpower.org/Media/daily/ArticleDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=47633" target="_blank"><em>what projects can we deploy</em></a>’ in 2017. And of course the upstarts, Tesla et al, are ramping up their offensive against the traditional utility with announcements of <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/04/14/tesla-introduces-solar-panels-ahead-of-gigafactory.aspx" target="_blank">solar roofs and new gigafactories</a>. It’s feeling like the <a href="http://amzn.to/2pW6814" target="_blank">disrupted (utilities)</a> might finally be waking up to the <a href="http://amzn.to/2pVXCit" target="_blank">inevitability of disruption</a>.