Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society www.surv-perspect-integr-environ-soc.net 1993-3800 1993-3819 1 2 2008 10.5194/sapiens-1-87-2008 http://www.surv-perspect-integr-environ-soc.net/1/87/2008/ http://www.surv-perspect-integr-environ-soc.net/1/87/2008/sapiens-1-87-2008.html http://www.surv-perspect-integr-environ-soc.net/1/87/2008/sapiens-1-87-2008.pdf 87 96 2008-10-01 The current electrical revolution: portrait of a newly emerging architecture in industrialized countries P. Dunsky philippe@dunsky.ca President, Dunsky Energy Consulting, Montreal, Canada In the short and medium terms, the precise architecture of the industrial world's electricity system remains hazy. Yet in the long term, it seems quite clearly headed toward a new configuration, rooted in a triad of solid trends: miniaturization, decentralization and the "greening'' of power generation. 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