The Future of Decentralized Electricity Distribution Networks

by Fereidoon Sioshansi (Editor)

Overview

The Future of Decentralized Electricity Distribution Networks assesses the evolution of the services delivered by the distribution network as demands placed on it proliferates from distributed, self-generating, power storing and power sharing 'consumers' – which Sioshansi terms 'prosumagers'. The work outlines the processes by which passive and homogeneous electricity consumers become prosumers and prosumagers, the nature of their service needs, and dependence on the services delivered by the distribution network diverges. Contributors assess how consumers are discovering and exercising options to migrate away from total reliance on upstream generators to produce electricity and on the delivery network for its transmission. As they do so, the "utilities" – be they distributors or retailers – must rethink the traditional utility business model. How will they find sufficient revenues to cover their fixed and variable costs as volumetric consumption declines when some consumers become prosumers – or go a step further and become prosumagers? This work argues that new service, business models and new methods for collecting sufficient revenues to maintain the network are mandatory for the survival of modern utilities. - Examines the future of services demanded by electricity customers as some diverge from their traditional total reliance on the network for delivery of all their service needs - Reviews the emergence of new business models to meet the diverging needs of customers - Explores the costs imposed by new types of customers on the delivery network and how to collect sufficient revenues from all to maintain it in ways that are efficient, equitable and fair

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443155925
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	05/23/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	526
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sector working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the “Electricity Currents” section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited 12 books on related topics with Elsevier.

Table of Contents

Part One: How technological innovations are changing customers' service needs 1. What drives consumers to become prosumers and prosumagers?2. Commercial rooftop solar in Australia: State of play, innovations and future prospects 3. Reaching world-record levels of rooftop solar PV: Causes and effects in Queensland4. Are networks keeping up with what customers need? Part Two: Old rules, new realities, unsustainable outcome5. Productive net metering reform: Where do the foundations of regulation, technological change and good economics meet?6. Leveraging the rise of the prosumer to promote electrification7. California at crossroads: How not to fumble the opportunities to transform the regulation of the power sector8. The design and structure of retail electricity markets in Europe Part Three: Regulation, policy, pricing9. Telecom pricing: Lessons for emerging electricity networks10. A new value proposition for electric distribution networks11. Why fair and efficient network pricing really matters12. Facilitating power system transformation at the distribution network level13. In search of a tariff fit for the grid's edge revolution: Reflections from Brazil14.Performance-based regulation to drive utility transformation and encourage DER markets15. Re-thinking, re-packaging and re-pricing the grid and retail electricity Part Four: Case studies, emerging innovative services, new business models16. How an innovative co-op is planning to thrive amidst the market disruptions: The Case of Holy Cross Energy17. Turning passive customers into active participants: MCE's innovative DER program18. How multiple trading relationships could upend historical single supplier business model19. Innovative products and services to meet the needs of present and future customers20. The future of grid-interactive efficient buildings and local transactive energy markets

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Explores the necessary evolution of services delivered by the distribution network as demand proliferates and encompasses new categories