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.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Author biographies - p. xv 7. Foreword - p. xxiii 8. Preface - p. xxv 9. Part I: How technological innovations are changing customers’ service needs - p. xxviii 10. What motivates consumers to become prosumers or prosumagers? - p. 3 11. Chapter 2. Commercial rooftop solar in Australia: State of play, innovations, and prospects - p. 27 12. Chapter 3. The sunshine state: Cause and effects of mass rooftop solar PV take-up rates in Queensland - p. 49 13. Chapter 4. Are networks keeping up with what customers need? - p. 81 14. Part II: Old rules, new realities, unsustainable outcome - p. 94 15. Productive net metering reform: Where do the foundations of regulation, technological change, and good economics meet? - p. 99 16. Chapter 6. Leveraging the rise of the prosumer to promote electrification - p. 133 17. Chapter 7. California at the crossroads: How not to fumble the energy transformation - p. 157 18. Chapter 8. The design and structure of retail electricity markets in Europe - p. 177 19. Part III: Regulation, policy, pricing - p. 194 20. Chapter 9. Some telecom pricing lessons for advanced electricity networks - p. 199 21. Chapter 10. A new value proposition for electric distribution networks - p. 219 22. Chapter 11. Why efficient network pricing and energy markets really matter - p. 237 23. Facilitating power system transformation at the distribution network level - p. 263 24. Chapter 13. In search of a tariff fit for the grid's edge revolution: Reflections from Brazil - p. 285 25. Chapter 14. Performance-based regulation to drive utility transformation and encourage DER market growth - p. 313 26. Rethinking, repackaging and repricing the grid and retail electricity - p. 333 27. Part IV: Case studies, emerging innovative services, new business models - p. 351 28. Chapter 16. How an innovative co-op is planning to thrive amidst the market disruptions: The case of Holy Cross Energy - p. 357 29. Turning passive customers into active participants: MCE's innovative DER program - p. 371 30. Chapter 18. How multiple trading relationships could upend the historical single supplier business model - p. 395 31. Chapter 19. Innovative products and services to meet the needs of present and future customers - p. 417 32. Chapter 20. The future of grid-interactive efficient buildings and local transactive energy markets - p. 437 33. Epilogue - p. 465 34. Index - p. 469
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.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Author biographies - p. xv 7. Foreword - p. xxiii 8. Preface - p. xxv 9. Part I: How technological innovations are changing customers’ service needs - p. xxviii 10. What motivates consumers to become prosumers or prosumagers? - p. 3 11. Chapter 2. Commercial rooftop solar in Australia: State of play, innovations, and prospects - p. 27 12. Chapter 3. The sunshine state: Cause and effects of mass rooftop solar PV take-up rates in Queensland - p. 49 13. Chapter 4. Are networks keeping up with what customers need? - p. 81 14. Part II: Old rules, new realities, unsustainable outcome - p. 94 15. Productive net metering reform: Where do the foundations of regulation, technological change, and good economics meet? - p. 99 16. Chapter 6. Leveraging the rise of the prosumer to promote electrification - p. 133 17. Chapter 7. California at the crossroads: How not to fumble the energy transformation - p. 157 18. Chapter 8. The design and structure of retail electricity markets in Europe - p. 177 19. Part III: Regulation, policy, pricing - p. 194 20. Chapter 9. Some telecom pricing lessons for advanced electricity networks - p. 199 21. Chapter 10. A new value proposition for electric distribution networks - p. 219 22. Chapter 11. Why efficient network pricing and energy markets really matter - p. 237 23. Facilitating power system transformation at the distribution network level - p. 263 24. Chapter 13. In search of a tariff fit for the grid's edge revolution: Reflections from Brazil - p. 285 25. Chapter 14. Performance-based regulation to drive utility transformation and encourage DER market growth - p. 313 26. Rethinking, repackaging and repricing the grid and retail electricity - p. 333 27. Part IV: Case studies, emerging innovative services, new business models - p. 351 28. Chapter 16. How an innovative co-op is planning to thrive amidst the market disruptions: The case of Holy Cross Energy - p. 357 29. Turning passive customers into active participants: MCE's innovative DER program - p. 371 30. Chapter 18. How multiple trading relationships could upend the historical single supplier business model - p. 395 31. Chapter 19. Innovative products and services to meet the needs of present and future customers - p. 417 32. Chapter 20. The future of grid-interactive efficient buildings and local transactive energy markets - p. 437 33. Epilogue - p. 465 34. Index - p. 469
