Consumer, Prosumer, Prosumager: How Service Innovations Will Disrupt the Utility Business Model (Paperback)

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 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