Part I: Envisioning Alternative Futures
Chapter 1: Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge
2. Economics of DERs versuS traditional bundled service at regulated tariffs
4. Aggregators, integrators, and intermediaries
5. Evolving the role of regulators
Chapter 2: Innovation, Disruption, and the Survival of the Fittest
2. Is delivering this transformation really that much of an issue?
3. The five key characteristics of a future energy company
Chapter 3: The Great Rebalancing: Rattling the Electricity Value Chain from Behind the Meter
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
2. The growth of community solar
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
2. Victoria’s electricity market
5. Is rooftop PV a good investment in Victoria?
Chapter 6: Powering the Driverless Electric Car of the Future
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
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
Chapter 8: Quintessential Innovation for Transformation of the Power Sector
2. Twin challenges: nonstop, ever faster change
3. Managing the new reality of dynamic change
4. Quintessential innovation (Q2i)
5. The energy innovation market
Part II: Enabling Future Innovations
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
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
Chapter 11: We Don’t Need a New Business Model: “It Ain’t Broke and It Don’t Need Fixin”
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?
6. Why we do not need to reinvent the wheel?
8. Is transactive energy the new model?
Chapter 12: Toward Dynamic Network Tariffs: A Proposal for Spain
2. How much and what for residential consumers pay?
3. Hourly payments: the fall-back tariff (PVPC)
4. Toward an efficient access tariff
6. Is it worth? Network tariffs and decarbonization
Chapter 13: Internet of Things and the Economics of Microgrids
2. ICT innovations and standards as drivers for microgrids
3. Microgrids and their relation to Next Generation Networks
Part III: Alternative Business Models
Chapter 14: Access Rights and Consumer Protections in a Distributed Energy System
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
2. The German energy market in transition
3. The B2C market: potentials and major game changers
4. Emerging business models for distributed energy systems
Chapter 16: Peer-to-Peer Energy Matching: Transparency, Choice, and Locational Grid Pricing
2. Flexibility in the context of variable renewable generation
3. VPPs and the role of aggregators
4. What future for variable demand?
2. Rethinking local energy systems
3. Institutional precursors for ICESs
4. Institutional design of ICES through technoeconomic perspective
Chapter 19: Solar Grid Parity and its Impact on the Grid
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
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