Editors: | F. Kongoli, H. Dodds, S. Atnaw, T. Turna. |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2022 |
Pages: | 266 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-989820-48-3(CD) |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) conditions are emerging all over the world and in sort of forms. Such conditions emerge in recent years primarily triggered due to the fact of anthropogenic climate change, affecting the weather conditions with severe hits in form of hurricanes, typhoons, sudden appearing devastating microclimate occurrence or similar. Earthquakes, volcano eruptions form also VUCA conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic hit global economies the recent years and will for sure prevent governments from their regular infrastructure planning and implementation works. Wars, causing distractions in raw material supply chains show similar results. In the opposite sometimes VUCA conditions appear due to a sudden vectoral change in a positive direction.
Despite the technological and political progress of humankind in form of communication and information access (i.e. internet), sustainable production (industrial, farming), digitalization, civil rights etc. VUCA conditions prevail and make emergency solutions essential. Emergency solutions tend to be more and more demanded by markets and governments, even leading to be used as mid-term and long-term solutions meeting the needs of consumers.
This paper will introduce the vectors leading to emergency conditions and needs in the power generation sphere and provide an insight on medium to large size powerships and powertrailers, while addressing major power generation trends such as renewable energy and storage technologies and their recent markets gains.