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NETWORK / 31 / XXXXX 20XX The Future Power System Architecture report has made a case for disruptive change in grid functionality and governance. What happens next? Change agenda I t's easy to theorise about revolution. It's less easy to make one happen and even harder to do so with a happy outcome – especially when you're trying to lead a diverse collective of conservatives, radicals and sceptics. The team behind the Future Power System Architecture (FPSA) project therefore has a big job ahead of it if it is to realise the promise and aspirations in its proposals. These include the implementation of 35 new or extended functions for the power grid before 2030, as well as the clear suggestion that the current market and governance structures of the UK's power system are not fit for purpose in a future defined by flexible, low-carbon, prosumer-friendly and multi- vector energy. The new functions set out by the FPSA project have seven drivers – all of which are likely to be familiar to power system stakeholders today (see box). The reasons these drivers give rise to the suggested functions are set out in six fulsome project deliverables comprising: a summary report, the main/full report, an international study comparing power system transformation in the UK to progress in other countries (see poster pull-out at the centre of this issue), a system engineering methodology that sets out the approach underlying all the analysis and assumptions, a functionality matrix that sets the proposed new and extended functions against four separate timescales for implementation, and a function-sequencing spreadsheet that explains in more detail the relationships between of all of the →