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Power from behind the scenes

Renewables, battery technologies, microgrids. They’re coming, in one form or another, that’s a given. But do they need to be a threat to the utilities of today? Or, could we think of ways to cooperate in order to turn the development into something great for us all – the utilities, the energy consumers, the entire society?

​Working on his doctoral dissertation on the future of electrical networks, Tarmo Mere, Segment Director for Electric & Gas at Trimble Energy, became familiar with the backcasting method a couple of years ago and found it interesting also for his professional life. “It is a process, or a methodology, not just to design the imaginable future but also to organize today’s work in order to make the preferred kind of a future a reality,” Tarmo explains.