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SEACON 2022: The next level pipelines delivering Net Zero

SEACON 2022: The next level pipelines delivering Net Zero

Benedict Dodd, Co-Founder at Armakuni and Peter Stuart, Technical Director at RES delivered this talk at SEACON 2022

Net Zero is not a nice to have and the clock is ticking. As the global community looks to reorganise to tackle the most important and urgent issue humanity may ever face, it’s obvious that clean energy production is at the core of the solution.

Peter Stuart has spent the last 18 months building elite teams with RES, the world’s largest independent renewable energy company, implementing the next generation of pipelines delivering the next generation of energy supply.

Whilst this talk gives an interesting insight into how the digital revolution is enabling renewable energy, it also gives insight into the organising teams for fast flow, infrastructure, code, data, analytics and ML pipelines that connect, for example, the climatic analysis to the hardware harvesting energy in the North Sea to the IoT cloud platforms and the operational analysis tools ensure every last drop of energy is collected.

This is also a story with scalability at its heart and how every lesson the DevOps community has learned is going to be needed to meet the exponential growth the world needs to realise in our journey to sustainable, renewable energy.

Armakuni

May 18, 2023
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  1. The next level pipelines delivering Net Zero
    Peter Stuart & Ben Dodd

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  2. Time to meet our villain!
    B

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  3. The Clock is Ticking
    Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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  4. Source: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/
    We’ve always had heatwaves
    B

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  5. Source: https://showyourstripes.info/s/globe / UK Met Office / University of Reading / 1850-2021
    B

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  6. Sign of the Times
    Source: Peter & Family

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  7. It’ll get used up anyway…THEN we can switch
    Source: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/how-many-gigatons-of-co2/
    B

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  8. Energy Stability & Cost
    Source: https://www.reuters.com &

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  9. Where are these greenhouse gasses coming from?
    B
    Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)

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  10. SOLAR
    ● We need to scale rapidly
    ● Little room for failure

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  11. Who are you?
    Ben Dodd
    ● Founder at Armakuni
    ● Quite Tall
    ● I used to do bad jokes
    ● I had 3 children
    ● Now I do dad jokes
    ● I get to work with interesting companies
    doing difficult things
    B

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  12. ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠
    Renewable Dad Joke Alert
    B

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  13. What do wind
    turbines think of
    renewable energy?
    They’re a big fan!
    B

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  14. Who are you?
    Peter Stuart
    ● Technical Director @ RES
    ● Not as tall as Ben
    ● Passionate about using technology to scale
    up renewable energy
    ● Father of Twins

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  15. CONSTRUCTION
    RES Overview
    16
    23
    GW
    40
    10
    GW
    2,500+
    PROJECT
    PORTFOLIO
    YEARS OF
    EXPERIENCE
    EMPLOYEES
    DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SERVICES WIND SOLAR STORAGE TRANSMISSION
    &
    DISTRIBUTION
    TECHNOLOGIES
    ACTIVITIES
    OF OPERATIONAL
    ASSETS SUPPORTED
    GREEN
    HYDROGEN
    H
    2

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  16. By 2030, 50% of the world’s power
    will come from renewable energy
    Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/oil-and-gas/our-insights/global-energy-perspective-2022

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  17. More projects to manage
    More complex projects
    Innovating to remain market leaders
    → Investing in technology & our people!
    Challenges

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  18. What’s on the Menu?

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  19. We build pipes for fast flow!
    B

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  20. The pipeline of work
    & alignment

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  21. Before
    Team

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  22. After
    Get the basics
    right…
    …then add value (energy)
    …and make it visible
    to our customers
    1
    Control
    Insights
    Analytics
    Data Integration
    Data Acquisition
    2
    3

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  23. Learnings
    ● It’s been challenging!
    ● There are many different ways to split the monolith
    ● Smaller products give us the agility to build faster and better
    ● Building quality into the software is key
    ● Important to make time to share knowledge between teams
    and developing a culture of learning

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  24. Control
    Data Acquisition
    Platform Flow Aligned
    UNO
    Data Integration
    As a service
    Analytics / Insight
    Enabling
    Complex
    Subsystem
    B

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  25. B
    Dunbar’s
    Number
    Team API
    Independent
    Service
    Heuristics
    Conway’s Law
    Product Mindset
    Service
    Management
    Mindset
    User Needs
    Mapping
    Cybernetics
    Clear
    boundaries
    Team Cognitive
    Load
    Generative
    Organisation
    Common goal
    Wardley Maps
    Dynamic
    Reteaming
    Psychological
    Safety
    Domain-Driven
    Design
    Fractal
    Planes
    Technical
    Excellence
    Super strong foundations
    that keep your team
    topologies-led, sensing
    organisation standing
    for many years!

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  26. B
    Source: https://teamtopologies.com/infographics
    The end state:
    Sensing capability
    responding at pace,
    not an org chart

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  27. SOLAR
    ● Align your teams for flow
    ● Lower cognitive overhead
    ● Use the data pyramid

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  28. ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠
    Renewable Dad Joke Alert
    B

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  29. A surge of electricity
    walks into a bar. The
    barman says:
    “why the long
    phase?”
    B

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  30. The pipeline of data

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  31. The journey of data

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  32. Excitement, Opportunity
    & Cross-Functional Teams

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  33. Azure IoT Edge:
    Continuous Delivery
    The journey of data
    B

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  34. T&D
    ● Everyone loves a gearbox
    ● Even physical, tricky systems
    can use continuous delivery
    ● Bi-directional fast flow of code
    and data is an opportunity for
    the flow of new products

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  35. One more joke…

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  36. ⚠ ⚠ ⚠ ⚠
    Ultimate Dad Joke Alert
    B

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  37. Son: "Dad, can you
    tell me what a solar
    eclipse is?
    Dad: "No sun."
    B

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  38. Conclusion

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  39. What I hope you have learned
    ● Organise your people for low cognitive load and flow
    ● More importantly, listen for when to change
    ● Even tricky environments can use CD
    ● Feedback early and often for all the pipelines

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  40. Bringing Creativity & Joy
    To The World of Engineering.
    ● “...a future you can look forward to and not feel sad about…”
    ● Working towards an inspiring vision AND working more like this
    The prize:
    B

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  41. A future where everyone has access to
    affordable zero-carbon energy
    The prize:

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  42. Claire Puttock
    [email protected]
    Thank you!
    👈 Feedback
    & Links

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