Once the fibre is in, you can move in and change the mining. They have blocked off our service providers and stopped innovation. At the turn of the century it was electrification. Now it is datafication. With increased demand for technology comes the demand for power, which is where the energy utilities fit in.
Electrical energy is the fuel for the digital economy.
A crisis in electrical supply and distributed systems is a crisis for digital economies. Our Achilles heel is electricity. Bookey is now in talks with the US energy department and power companies on the development of a test system to cut power use through increased prices in times of peak demand. Under the system, prices would escalate dramatically at those times but consumers could choose to turn the power off in their own homes. He is working on software that would enable a device in a home to instruct a meter to turn the power off once it hit a high price.