Screen LibraryInnovation and disruption at the grid's edge : how distributed energy resources are disrupting the utility business model /
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Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | London, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2017 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128117583 |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780128117637 012811763X |
| Index Number: | TK1005 |
| CLC: | TM7 |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Author Biographies; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I -- Envisioning Alternative Futures; Chapter 1 -- Innovation and Disruption at the Grid's Edge; 1 -- Introduction; 2 -- Economics of DERs versus traditional bundled service at regulated tariffs; 3 -- Bifurcation of customers; 4 -- Aggregators, integrators, and intermediaries; 5 -- Evolving the role of regulators; 6 -- Organization of the book; Chapter 2 -- Innovation, Disruption, and the Survival of the Fittest; 1 -- Introduction; 2 -- Is delivering this transformation really that much of an issue? 3 -- The five key characteristics of a future energy company3.1 -- Characteristic 1: Access to a Portfolio of Generation, Storage, and Flexible Demand Will Remain Important in the Future; 3.2 -- Characteristic 2: Risk Management, Optimization, and Trading are Essential Parts in the Operation of a Utility; 3.3 -- Characteristic 3: Control of "Big Data" Will Give Leverage for Competitive Advantage; 3.4 -- Characteristic 4: User-Friendly Applications and Automation Tools Will Enhance Customer Propositions and Unlock Deman ... 3.5 -- Characteristic 5: Being Close to the Customers as Their Demands Change4 -- The new energy company; 5 -- Conclusions; Chapter 3 -- The Great Rebalancing: Rattling the Electricity Value Chain from Behind the Meter; 1 -- Introduction; 2 -- Greater comfort and convenience; 3 -- New visions of the value chain: rhetoric, reality, regulation, and the REV; 3.1 -- Complicated or Complex?; 4 -- The tariff cost stack, the mystery beyond the meter and the full electricity value chain; 4.1 -- Customer Assets Beyond the Meter; 5 -- The DER dilemma for the true electricity value chain; 6 -- Conclusions. 7 -- Case study: Westchester, New York7.1 Governance and Structure; 7.2 Structure of the Program; 7.3 Energy Procurement; 7.4 Services Beyond Energy Procurement: Community Solar, Demand Response, and Microgrids; 8 -- Comparison of community choice aggregation cases; 9 -- Conclusions; References; Further Reading; Chapter 5 -- Grid Versus Distributed Solar: What Does Australia's Experience Say About the Competitiveness of Distributed En ... ; 1 -- Introduction; 2 -- Victoria's electricity market; 3 -- Analytical methodology; 3.1 -- Sensitivity One: Increase Feed-In Tariff by 5 Cents Per kWh. 3.2 -- Sensitivity Two: Convert Fixed Charges Into Variable Charges and Increase Feed-In Tariffs by 5 Cents Per kWh. |