Can This Room-Sized Board Game Help Utilities Plan for Dramatic Changes in the Electric Sector?

A board game called Newtonian Shift squeezes two decades of energy transition into a few hours.

Running an electric utility is a complex, serious business. So when 25 professionals gathered in a large meeting room in downtown Toronto to play a board game, some were understandably skeptical.

As the journalist in the room, I was among the skeptical. What could we — a mix of utility executives, technology suppliers, government officials, industry regulators, and outside observers — possibly get out of such a simple exercise?

Quite a bit, it turns out.

by Tyler Hamilton

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