Peter Gardett: have what they are bringing to the week of the energy of New York?

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The United States energy sector has come to a truce of innovation.

After years of accelerating the adoption of renewable energy and smart grid technologies, not to mention the excitement about electric cars and opportunities of the electrification of the developing world, the brightness is much of the promise of a brave new world of energy that seemed imminent in the markets of high price of only a few years ago.

It is a natural reaction to the artificial boost of energy-related stimulus in Obama's first term and includes a kind of relief energy planners that the rise of natural gas (built in industry innovation now more than one decade of age) spare them the need for a transformation of the sector full-scale, expensive. But some of that calm is because the corporate landscape is still a land of silos.

Renewable energies do not speak to industry types oil (and the other way around). Financiers veer energy technology startups to focus on models of income of centenarians who understand and marketing gurus fail to see the virtue of marks that the public knows little about or simply reflexively does not like.

But the sector and innovation change occurs, all the silos of industry must find ways to work together and do they need places to meet. They need for the exchange of ideas that are on the periphery of their comfort zones and see how new challenges to their thinking can create new opportunities for your business.

That is why I am part of the week of the energy of New York. Too long, the industry has been defined by a mentality which does not allow creative exchange of ideas and best practices, a mentality which includes a manifesto of reliability built to an economic model of scale and centralization that is passing rapidly from relevance.

In the week of the energy of New York, we have worked to bring hackers in giants of the technology along with oil analysts and bring watchdogs of Government in conversation with self-professed disruptors. What better place to do it than New York City, where everyone elbows on crowded streets of people and the metro.

The United States is enormous, profitable energy sector and a credit to the national and global economy. It is also too often invisible and isolated. I am looking forward to see some talks unlikely that happen during the week of the energy of New York and have my own assumptions challenged.

What are they bringing to the week of the energy of New York?

Peter Gardett is the Foundation Editor of breaking energy and member of the Board of the week of the energy of New York, from 24 to 28 July 2013.

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