Part II: Enabling Future Innovations
by Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge
- Cover
- 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
- Chapter 2: Innovation, Disruption, and the Survival of the Fittest
- 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?
- 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
- Chapter 8: Quintessential Innovation for Transformation of the Power Sector
- Part II: Enabling Future Innovations
- Chapter 9: Bringing DER Into the Mainstream: Regulations, Innovation, and Disruption on the Grid’s Edge
- Chapter 10: Public Policy Issues Associated With Feed-In Tariffs and Net Metering: An Australian Perspective
- 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
- Chapter 13: Internet of Things and the Economics of Microgrids
- Part III: Alternative Business Models
- Chapter 14: Access Rights and Consumer Protections in a Distributed Energy System
- Chapter 15: The Transformation of the German Electricity Sector and the Emergence of New Business Models in Distributed Energy Systems
- Chapter 16: Peer-to-Peer Energy Matching: Transparency, Choice, and Locational Grid Pricing
- Chapter 17: Virtual Power Plants: Bringing the Flexibility of Decentralized Loads and Generation to Power Markets
- Chapter 18: Integrated Community-Based Energy Systems: Aligning Technology, Incentives, and Regulations
- 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
Part II
Enabling Future Innovations
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