Consumer, Prosumer, Prosumager: How Service Innovations will Disrupt the Utility Business Model

Consumers, Prosumers, Prosumagers: How Customer Stratification will Disrupt the Utility Business Model examines customer stratification in the electric power sector, arguing that it is poised to become one of the fundamental drivers of the 21st century power network as distributed energy generation, storage, sharing and trading options become available at scale. The book addresses the interface and the relationship between key players and their impacts on incumbent and disruptive service providers. Topics covered include innovations that lead to consumer stratification, regulatory policy, the potential of service, the speed and spread of stratification, and a review of potential business models and strategies. The work also covers the evolution and potential end-states of electricity service provision, from its basis in current pilot programs as distributed generation scales and its potential to supplant industry norms. Explores the impacts and trajectories of increasing distributed power generation and storage adoptionAnalyzes the growing number of electricity services and their impact on the existing power grid and service providers, including incumbent and disruptor utilitiesDiscusses future market trends and trends in costs, pricing and business models INDICE: Part 1 How service innovations are leading to consumer stratification and disruption 1. Digitalization of energy 2. The dawn of platforms, peer-to-peer trading and blockchain technology 3. Integrated energy services, distribute load aggregation and intelligent storage 4. Service innovation and disruption in the Australian contestable retail market 5. Do I have a deal for you? Buying well in Australia's contestable retail electricity markets 6. Enabling decentralized networks of the future 7. Self-selecting customers: A bless or miss for utilities Part 2 How regulatory policy will impact the evolution of services and the speed and spread of disruptions 8. Cutting electricity tariff's Gordian knot: navigating conflicting objectives in tariff design 9. New tariffs for new integrated energy services 10. Pathways for community energy storage: Regulatory implications and business models 11. Political, regulatory and legal challenges to promotion of distributed energy resources in Latin America: A Brazilian case study 12. Evolution of decentralized energy systems in Germany: A case study of co-ops 13. Advanced microgrid systems: Developing value-based rules to shape electric market parameters, players and structures Part 3 How will the emerging business models of incumbent distribution companies and newcomers will transform the electric power sector 14. The future of electricity distribution: A California case study 15. Using flexibility resources to optimize distribution grids? A French case study 16. Forget the grid: Stand-alone, pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) solar power systems fit for developing economies 17. Different concepts of decentralization and their role in the transformation of the energy system 18. Market redesign in the European Union - Capability development for utilities business model transformation 19. How incumbents are adjusting to the changing business environment: A German case study 20. Who will fuel your electric vehicle of the future? You or your utility? 21. Distributed energy resources and the wholesale power markets: Trends and projections

• ISBN: 978-0-12-816835-6
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 512
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés