TOMORROW’S ENERGY TODAY FINAL PRESENTATION - COMP 410 F12

MOTIVATION

WHAT IS OUR PLAN?

INTRODUCTION

WHO ARE WE? COMP CS students Semester-long senior design course Completely student-ran No homework, no grades Given problem statement - Not a project AT WORK

PROBLEM STATEMENT Customer – Citizen for Affordable Energy John Hofmeister – Former President of Shell Oil Company Develop a simulation framework capable of simulating the results of various energy plans for different energy models. Create a non-partisan plan for the U.S. energy system for the next 50 years which ensures energy is available, affordable, and sustainable. Verify the plan produces desired results by developing an energy model of the U.S. energy system and running the plan and model on the simulation framework. Make the plan and results readily available to the public.

SPECIFICATION I.Model of the US Energy Industry II.Best-case, average-case, and worst-case 50-year plans for the energy industry III.Simulator I.Public Web Interface II.Cloud Storage III.General Purpose Modeling

MODEL & PLAN

ENERGY MODEL Definition: A representation of the energy industry in terms of interconnected modules. Module: An object which wraps a lambda and keeps tack of values. Lambda: A piece of code or math which takes a set of input values and computes a set of output values. Add Lambda Sub Mult Add ModuleModel Add 3 5 8

OUR PLAN

SYSTEM DYNAMICS

SD ADVANTAGES EXTENSIBILITYCOMPARABILITY

OUR MODEL

SIMULATOR

FEATURES Load pre-constructed models and plans. Make edits to models and plans dynamically. Save new models and plans for later use. Run a simulation and view results.

DEMONSTRATION (Look at the other screen! )

TECHNOLOGIES … Windows Azure?

ARCHITECTURE

CONCLUSION

ANALYSIS

FUTURE WORK

THANK YOU! Special Gratitude to: Microsoft Citizens for Affordable Energy School of Engineering CS Department COMP 410 Staff Dr. Wong

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