Learning the Dispatch of Flexible Resources in Energy Systems from Tenet
Tenet is a film about climate justice and energy transition…
- It has a lot of shots in a offshore windfarm
- It is about a generation war between contemporaries and the future generation, who inherited a poisoned and over-heated Earth
- And it has this concept called “temporal pincer movement”…
- Wait, what?!
Temporal Pincer Movement
In Tenet, it is possible for humans and objects to reserve their direction of time; allowing the “inverted” team to co-operate with the usual team with their knowledge of what had already happened (or would happen from blue team’s POV).
TPM as a Dispatch Tool of Personnel
Since time still flows for inverted people (albeit the opposite direction), the reachable time on the temporal horizon for a personnel is limited to her life span / retirement age. The reachable time for a personnel decreases drastically as she travels further on the opposite temporal direction from the rest of the world.
An inverted personnel contributes for two additional operational units of personnel during the additional time span she is inverted and reverted. She will however, contribute for a loss of one operational unit of personnel in the far future when she has to retire earlier on the temporal horizon. The time span when the net loss occurs is twice the length of that of the time span when she is inverted and reverted.
For any organization operating on the temporal horizon, it would be essential to recruit and dispatch its personnel (with inversion-and-reversion if necessary) in such a way that for all the critical points on the temporal horizon, events develop as desired by the organization.
The impact of a person undergo inversion-and-reversion resembles the response function of a flexible resource in the energy system, and the dispatch problem of an organization operating on the temporal horizon mimics that of an energy system operator.
Dispatch Strategy: Example Signal
LTI Energy System Optimization Problem
