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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 22, 2016). |
| Summary |
Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future: How technological innovations in distributed generation will reshape the electric power sector relates the latest information on the electric power sector its rapid transformation, particularly on the distribution network and customer side. Trends like the rapid rise of self-generation and distributed generation, microgrids, demand response, the dissemination of electric vehicles and zero-net energy buildings that promise to turn many consumers into prosumers are discussed. The book brings together authors from industry and academic backgrounds to present their original, cutting-edge and thought-provoking ideas on the challenges currently faced by electric utilities around the globe, the opportunities they present, and what the future might hold for both traditional players and new entrants to the sector. The book's first part lays out the present scenario, with concepts such as an integrated grid, microgrids, self-generation, customer-centric service, and pricing, while the second part focuses on how innovation, policy, regulation, and pricing models may come together to form a new electrical sector, exploring the reconfiguring of the current institutions, new rates design in light of changes to retail electricity markets and energy efficiency, and the cost and benefits of integration of distributed or intermittent generation, including coupling local renewable energy generation with electric vehicle fleets. The final section projects the future function and role of existing electrical utilities and newcomers to this sector, looking at new pathways for business and pricing models, consumer relations, technology, and innovation. |
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pt. I What is Changing, What are the Implications -- 1. What is the Future of the Electric Power Sector? / Fereidoon P. Sioshansi -- 2. Value of an Integrated Grid / Clark W. Gellings -- 3. Microgrids: Finally Finding their Place / Chris Marnay -- 4. Customer-Centric View of Electricity Service / Eric G. Gimon -- 5. The Innovation Platform Enables the Internet of Things / John Cooper -- 6. Role of Utility and Pricing in the Transition / Judith McNeill -- 7. Intermittency: It's the Short-Term That Matters / Glenn Platt -- pt. II Competition, Innovation, Regulation, and Pricing -- 8. Retail Competition, Advanced Metering Investments, and Product Differentiation: Evidence From Texas / Jay Zarnikau -- 9. Rehabilitating Retail Electricity Markets: Pitfalls and Opportunities / Amanda Levin -- 10. Residential Rate Design and Death Spiral for Electric Utilities: Efficiency and Equity Considerations / Frank Felder -- 11. Modeling the Impacts of Disruptive Technologies and Pricing on Electricity Consumption / Glenn Walden -- 12. Decentralized Reliability Options: Market Based Capacity Arrangements / Stephen Woodhouse -- 13.Network Pricing for the Prosumer Future: Demand-Based Tariffs or Locational Marginal Pricing? / Andrew Reeves -- 14. The Evolution of Smart Grids Begs Disaggregated Nodal Pricing / Gunter Knieps -- pt. III Utilities of the Future: Future of Utilities -- 15. New Business Models for Utilities to Meet the Challenge of the Energy Transition / Michael Pollitt -- 16. European Utilities: Strategic Choices and Cultural Prerequisites for the Future / Jens Weinmann -- 17. Thriving Despite Disruptive Technologies: A German Utilities' Case Study / Gerhard Jochum -- 18. The Future of Utility Customers and the Utility Customer of the Future / Lain MacGill -- 19. Business Models for Power System Flexibility: New Actors, New Roles, New Rules / Rahmatallah Poudineh -- 20. The Repurposed Distribution Utility: Roadmaps to Getting There / Kai E. Van Horn -- 21. Distributed Utility: Conflicts and Opportunities Between Incumbent Utilities, Suppliers, and Emerging New Entrants / Matthew Roche -- 22. The Fully Integrated Grid: Wholesale and Retail, Transmission and Distribution / Paul Sotkiewicz. |
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Distributed generation of electric power -- Technological innovations.
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Electric utilities -- Technological innovations.
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Électricité -- Production -- Génération répartie -- Innovations.
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Services publics d'électricité -- Innovations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Electric utilities -- Technological innovations
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| Added Author |
Sioshansi, Fereidoon P. (Fereidoon Perry), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780128042496 |
| ISBN |
9780128043202 (electronic bk.) |
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0128043202 (electronic bk.) |
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9780128042496 |
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0128042494 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000061151118 |
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CHBIS 010796228 |
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CHNEW 001013471 |
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CHVBK 403943051 |
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CHVBK 519311728 |
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DEBBG BV043629313 |
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DEBSZ 480372136 |
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DEBSZ 482469846 |
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GBVCP 879392754 |
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