The Future of Decentralized Electricity Distribution Networks

The Future of Decentralized Electricity Distribution Networks examines how consumers are transitioning from passive and homogeneous electricity consumers to prosumers and prosumagers, and how utilities must rethink their business model to survive.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 526 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2023
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

The Future of Decentralized Electricity Distribution Networks delves into the transformative journey of the services provided by distribution networks, as they adapt to meet the increasing demands of distributed, self-generating, power-storing, and power-sharing consumers, known as prosumers. This comprehensive work outlines the processes by which passive and homogeneous electricity consumers evolve into prosumers and prosumagers, discerning their unique service needs and developing a reliance on the services offered by the distribution network. Contributors examine how consumers are exploring and exercising options to transition away from their complete dependence on upstream generators for electricity production and on the delivery network for its transmission. As this shift occurs, utilities, whether they are distributors or retailers, are compelled to reevaluate their traditional utility business model. How can they secure sufficient revenues to cover their fixed and variable costs, particularly as volumetric consumption declines when some consumers become prosumers or even venture into prosumaging? This insightful work posits that the adoption of new service, business models, and innovative revenue collection methods is imperative for the survival and sustainability of modern utilities in the face of evolving consumer dynamics.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780443155918