
The Future of Decentralized Electricity Distribution Networks
- 1st Edition - May 23, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Fereidoon Sioshansi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 5 9 1 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 5 9 2 - 5
The Future of Decentralized Electricity Distribution Networks assesses the evolution of the services delivered by the distribution network as demands placed on it prolifera… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe 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
Foreword
Jean-Michel Glachant
Preface
Richard Green
Introduction & chapter summaries
Fereidoon Sioshansi
Part One: How technological innovations are changing customers’ service needs
1) What drives consumers to become prosumers and prosumagers?
Fereidoon Sioshansi
2) Commercial rooftop solar in Australia: State of play, innovations and future prospects
Bruce Mountain
3) Reaching world-record levels of rooftop solar PV: Causes and effects in Queensland
Paul Simshauser, Joel Gilmore, and Tim Nelson
4) Are networks keeping up with what customers need?
Fereidoon Sioshansi
Part Two: Old rules, new realities, unsustainable outcome
5) Productive net metering reform: Where do the foundations of regulation, technological change and good economics meet?
Fereidoon Sioshansi and Richard McCann based on unpublished manuscript by Jim Lazar
6) Leveraging the rise of the prosumer to promote electrification
Richard McCann
7) California at crossroads: How not to fumble the opportunities to transform the regulation of the power sector
Kevin Bell
8) The design and structure of retail electricity markets in Europe
Carlo Stagnaro
Part Three: Regulation, policy, pricing
9)Telecom pricing: Lessons for emerging electricity networks
Carl Danner
10) A new value proposition for electric distribution networks
Lorenzo Kristov
11) Why fair and efficient network pricing really matters
David Robinson and Angel Arcos-Vargas
12) Facilitating power system transformation at the distribution network level
Darryl Biggar and Mohammad Hesamzadeh
13) In search of a tariff fit for the grid’s edge revolution: Reflections from Brazil
Richard Hochstetler and João Cho
14)Performance-based regulation to drive utility transformation and encourage DER markets
Karl R. Rábago and Jesse Hitchcock
15) Re-thinking, re-packaging and re-pricing the grid and retail electricity
Mark Kolesar
Part Four: Case studies, emerging innovative services, new business models
16) How an innovative co-op is planning to thrive amidst the market disruptions: The Case of Holy Cross Energy
Bryan Hannegan
17) Turning passive customers into active participants: MCE's innovative DER program
Jennifer Baak
18) How multiple trading relationships could upend historical single supplier business model
John Campbell
19) Innovative products and services to meet the needs of present and future customers
Con Hristodoulidis
20) The future of grid-interactive efficient buildings and local transactive energy markets
Kay Aikin
Epilogue
Stephen Littlechild
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 23, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 526
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443155918
- eBook ISBN: 9780443155925
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