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by Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge
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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Author Biographies
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Envisioning Alternative Futures
Chapter 1: Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Economics of DERs versuS traditional bundled service at regulated tariffs
3. Bifurcation of customers
4. Aggregators, integrators, and intermediaries
5. Evolving the role of regulators
6. Organization of the book
Chapter 2: Innovation, Disruption, and the Survival of the Fittest
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Is delivering this transformation really that much of an issue?
3. The five key characteristics of a future energy company
4. The new energy company
5. Conclusions
Chapter 3: The Great Rebalancing: Rattling the Electricity Value Chain from Behind the Meter
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Greater comfort and convenience
3. New visions of the value chain: rhetoric, reality, regulation, and the REV
4. The tariff cost stack, the mystery beyond the meter and the full electricity value chain
5. The DER dilemma for the true electricity value chain
6. Conclusions
Chapter 4: Beyond Community Solar: Aggregating Local Distributed Resources for Resilience and Sustainability
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The growth of community solar
3. Community solar challenges
4. Community choice aggregation: taking steps beyond community solar
5. Case study: Marin Clean Energy
6. Case study: Lowell, Massachusetts community choice power plan
7. Case study: Westchester, New York
8. Comparison of community choice aggregation cases
9. Conclusions
Chapter 5: Grid Versus Distributed Solar: What Does Australia’s Experience Say About the Competitiveness of Distributed Energy?
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Victoria’s electricity market
3. Analytical methodology
4. Results
5. Is rooftop PV a good investment in Victoria?
6. Conclusions
Chapter 6: Powering the Driverless Electric Car of the Future
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Peak car and EVs
3. EV cost advantages
4. EV fueling infrastructure
5. Commercial drivers of EV uptake
6. Developments in automotive battery technology
7. EV refueling infrastructure: interface with the grid
8. The future of EV battery technology
9. Government and regulatory drives of EV uptake
10. Conclusions
Chapter 7: Regulations, Barriers, and Opportunities to the Growth of DERs in the Spanish Power Sector
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Regulation/legislation on renewables in Spain
3. Spanish renewable energy plans
4. Development of renewables and costs
5. DER: household prosumers and PV utility scale
6. Electric Vehicles
7. Conclusions
Chapter 8: Quintessential Innovation for Transformation of the Power Sector
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Twin challenges: nonstop, ever faster change
3. Managing the new reality of dynamic change
4. Quintessential innovation (Q2i)
5. The energy innovation market
6. Conclusions
Part II: Enabling Future Innovations
Chapter 9: Bringing DER Into the Mainstream: Regulations, Innovation, and Disruption on the Grid’s Edge
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Challenges and opportunities of high levels of DER
3. California and New York—a tale of two regulatory approaches
4. Getting the most out of DER
5. Aligning utility financial motives with DER policy goals
6. Conclusions
Chapter 10: Public Policy Issues Associated With Feed-In Tariffs and Net Metering: An Australian Perspective
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Efficient tariffs for generation and load in theory
3. Retail tariffs for generation and load in practice, and their implications
4. Current problems and possible future directions
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 11: We Don’t Need a New Business Model: “It Ain’t Broke and It Don’t Need Fixin”
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. A reprise: what has prompted the discussions about new business models?
3. Will there be more changes?
4. What should the new regulatory focus be?
5. Rate of return regulation
6. Why we do not need to reinvent the wheel?
7. How can we move forward?
8. Is transactive energy the new model?
9. Conclusions
Chapter 12: Toward Dynamic Network Tariffs: A Proposal for Spain
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. How much and what for residential consumers pay?
3. Hourly payments: the fall-back tariff (PVPC)
4. Toward an efficient access tariff
5. A Spanish case study
6. Is it worth? Network tariffs and decarbonization
7. Conclusions
Chapter 13: Internet of Things and the Economics of Microgrids
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. ICT innovations and standards as drivers for microgrids
3. Microgrids and their relation to Next Generation Networks
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Part III: Alternative Business Models
Chapter 14: Access Rights and Consumer Protections in a Distributed Energy System
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Consumer market developments in the NEM
3. Outlook for distributed technologies in the NEM
4. Growing customer heterogeneity: impacts of technology adoption on household demand
5. Evolution of consumer rights and protections
6. Conclusions
Chapter 15: The Transformation of the German Electricity Sector and the Emergence of New Business Models in Distributed Energy Systems
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The German energy market in transition
3. The B2C market: potentials and major game changers
4. Emerging business models for distributed energy systems
5. The transformation process
6. Conclusions
Chapter 16: Peer-to-Peer Energy Matching: Transparency, Choice, and Locational Grid Pricing
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Transparency and choice
3. Locational grid pricing
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 17: Virtual Power Plants: Bringing the Flexibility of Decentralized Loads and Generation to Power Markets
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Flexibility in the context of variable renewable generation
3. VPPs and the role of aggregators
4. What future for variable demand?
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgment
Chapter 18: Integrated Community-Based Energy Systems: Aligning Technology, Incentives, and Regulations
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Rethinking local energy systems
3. Institutional precursors for ICESs
4. Institutional design of ICES through technoeconomic perspective
5. Conclusions
Chapter 19: Solar Grid Parity and its Impact on the Grid
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The solar energy cost watershed
3. The rise of distributed commercial/solar
4. The shaping of PPAs by PV uptake
5. Commercial solar uptake: Australia
6. Commercial PV uptake: California
7. Financing and management of large-scale corporate uptake of PV solar
8. The future of a PV/wind-dominated power supply
9. Community-based microgrids
10. Conclusions
Epilogue
Index
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