- 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
Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge
How Distributed Energy Resources are Disrupting the Utility Business Model
Edited by
Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Menlo Energy Economics
Walnut Creek, CA, United States
Walnut Creek, CA, United States
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