Innovation and Disruption at the Grids Edge: How distributed energy resources are disrupting the utility business model

Innovation and Disruption at the Grid's Edge examines the viable developments in peer-to-peer transactions enabled by open platforms on the grid's edge. With consumers and prosumers using more electronic platforms to trade surplus electricity from rooftop solar panels, share a storage battery, or use smart gadgets that manage load and self-generation, the grid's edge is becoming crowded. The book examines the growing number of consumers engaging in self-generation and storage, and analyzes the underlying causes and drivers of change, as well as the implications of how the utility sector-particularly the distribution network-should/could be regulated. The book also explores how tariffs are set and revenues are collected to cover both fixed and variable costs in a sustainable way. This reference is useful for anyone interested in the areas of energy generation and regulation, especially stakeholders engaged in the generation, transmission, and distribution of power. Examines the new players that will disrupt the energy grid marketsOffers unique coverage of an emerging and unpublished topicHelps the reader understand up-to-date energy regulations and pricing innovations INDICE: Foreword Preface Introduction Part I: Envisioning alternative futures Why and how the industry is changing; the implications of change on incumbent stakeholders and new players Part II. Enabling future innovations Policy, regulations, pricing, innovation; regulation cannot mandate innovation, but neither should it stifle it. Part III. Alternative business models Prosumage & Digitized E-lectricity Trading on the Grid's Edge Epilogue

• ISBN: 978-0-12-811758-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 500
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés