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Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry
Understand the technological, business, and regulatory strategies that will keep utilities viable in the emerging age of distributed energy generation
Fereidoon Sioshansi (Author)
9780128002407, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 1 August 2014
552 pages, 150 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 3.4 cm, 0.96 kg
"For readers of this journal this book contains some very valuable articles summarizing recent developments...At the end asking the question how relevant the changes in the direction of distributed generation are, the answer is not unambiguous."--Energy Research & Social Science, January 28, 2015
Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry examines the current state of the electric supply industry; the upstream and downstream of the meter; the various technological, business, and regulatory strategies; and case studies that look at a number of projects that put new models into practice. A number of powerful trends are beginning to affect the fundamentals of the electric utility business as we know it. Recent developments have led to a fundamental re-thinking of the electric supply industry and its traditional method of measuring consumption on a volumetric basis. These developments include decreasing electricity demand growth; the rising cost of fossil fuels and its impact on electricity costs; investment in energy efficiency; increasing numbers of prosumers who generate for some or all of their own needs; and market reforms. This book examines the implications of these trends in chapters focusing on distributed and decentralized generation, transactive energy, the role of electric vehicles, any much more.
Foreword Preface Introduction Part I: What is changing? Chapter 1 Decentralized energy: Is it as imminent or serious as claimed?Chapter 2 New utility business model: A global viewChapter 3 Germany’s decentralized energy revolution Chapter 4 Australia’s million solar roofs: Disruption on the fringes or the beginning of a new order?Chapter 5 As the role of the distributor changes, so will the need for new technologyChapter 6 The impact of distributed generation on European power utilitiesChapter 7 Lessons from other industries facing disruptive technology Part II: Implications and industry/regulatory response Chapter 8 Electricity markets and pricing for the distributed generation eraChapter 9 Transactive energy: Linking supply and demand through price signalsChapter 10 Transactive energy: Interoperable transactive retail tariffsChapter 11 The evolution of the electric distribution utility Chapter 12 An expanded distribution utility business model: Win-win, or win-maybe?Chapter 13 From throughput to access fees: The future of network and retail tariffs Chapter 14 Industry response to revenue erosion from solar PVsChapter 15 Making the most of the no growth business environmentChapter 16 Regulatory policies for the transition to new business paradigmChapter 17 Electric vehicles: New problem, or distributed energy asset? Part III: What future? Chapter 18 Rethinking the transmission-distribution interface in a distributed generation futureChapter 19 Decentralized generation in Australia’s National Electricity Market? No problemChapter 20 What future for the grid operator? Chapter 21 Utility version 2.0: Maryland’s pilot projectChapter 22 Turning a vision to reality: Boulder's utility of the futureChapter 23 Perfect storm or perfect opportunity? Future scenarios for the electricity sectorChapter 24 Evolution, revolution or back to the future: Lessons from the electricity supply industry’s formative days Epilogue
Subject Areas: Power generation & distribution [THRB], Energy technology & engineering [TH]
