| Description |
xii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents note continued: 5.Guidance in the information tsunami -- 6.From optimizing to satisficing -- 7.Innovation and dissemination networks -- 8.The right sequencing of the energy transformation -- 9.From unbundling to rebundling -- 10.Public service obligation for transparency -- Appendix: Company and Interviewee Profiles -- Argentus -- Konrad Jerusalem -- Bioenergy village Juhnde -- Eckhard Fangmeier -- co2online -- Johannes Dietrich Hengstenberg -- Daimler -- Ulrich Muller -- E.ON -- Eckhardt Rummler -- EnBW Regional -- Michael Kirsch -- GASAG -- Andreas Prohl -- Greenvironment -- Radu Anghel -- Itron -- Karsten Peterson -- Werner Paech -- LichtBlick -- Ralph Kampwirth -- ODR -- Frank Hose -- Siemens |
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Contents note continued: Electric vehicles -- A hype revisited -- Combining lead markets and lead suppliers (Daimler) -- Findings on stationary storage and electric vehicles -- 6.Enabling Negawatts -- Theoretical framing -- Inelastic demand for durable goods -- Split incentives and the principal-agent dilemma -- Transaction costs and incomplete contracts -- Building efficiency -- Technological progress driven by standards? -- Creating lasting ties with the building owner (co2online) -- Energy performance contracting -- From engineering to economics -- Product standardization as the key to customer management (Argentus) -- Risk reduction via guaranteed energy savings (Argentus) -- Findings on building efficiency and energy performance contracting -- 7.Insights from Germany for a Decentralized Energy Future -- 1.The decentralization snowball -- 2.Emotionalization of energy -- 3.From single technologies to systemic viability -- 4.Exploiting market volatility -- |
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Contents note continued: Ownership and participatory processes (Juhnde) -- Information dissemination and Smart Community consulting (Juhnde) -- Recommunalization -- The concept of citizen value (SWK, SWU, GASAG) -- Findings on empowerment and recommunalization -- 4.Smart Management of Electricity and Information -- Theoretical framing -- Network externalities -- Standardization and lock-in effects -- Smart grid -- The feed-in induced revolution (Siemens, EnBW Regional, and ODR) -- ICT to manage bidirectional power flows (Itron, Argentus, and ODR) -- Smart meters -- Competing standards (Itron) -- Netting peak-shaving and increasing the share of flexible power demand (Itron, SWU, and Siemens) -- Smart home and cross-selling opportunities (Siemens, E.ON) -- Findings on smart management of electricity and information -- 5.Local Storage Solutions -- Stationary storage -- The alternative to grid renewal -- Developing the blueprint for carbon-free energy systems (Younicos) -- |
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Machine generated contents note: The design of the future energy system -- How to read this book -- 1.Empowerment Paradigm - The Age of the Prosumer -- Technological drivers -- Regulatory drivers -- Empowerment drivers -- Agents of change -- 2.Small Is Beautiful -- Theoretical framing -- Industry development -- Innovation competence of incumbents -- Micro CHP -- The efficiency advantage -- Exploiting scarcity pricing in the wholesale market: virtual power plants (LichtBlick) -- Manufacturing synergies and economies of scale (Volkswagen) -- Micro turbines -- Aviation technology for the energy market -- Market entry and sales strategies (Greenvironment) -- Cooperations and alliances (Greenvironment and Viessmann) -- Findings on micro CHPs and micro turbines -- 3.The Rise of Island Systems -- Theoretical framing -- Capabilities and collective empowerment -- Race to the top and strategic differentiation -- Bioenergy villages -- The countryside strikes back -- |
| Summary |
Decentralized energy supply increases independence from fossil resources, reduces the carbon footprint of a society and enhances local value creation. But many of the technologies deployed are still in their infancy and depend on subsidies. Entrepreneurs, representatives of energy incumbents and new entrants from Germany portray how they have transformed the abstract vision of a low-carbon, decentralized energy system into commercially viable business strategies. They engage in innovation and dissemination networks with municipalities and manufacturers, create new business opportunities using the information and communication layer of the smart grid, and develop an integrated value proposition beyond the narrow maximization of energy sales. Meanwhile, community empowerment stimulates the emotionalization of energy, municipalities turn into island systems and consumers into 'prosumers.' This book provides first-hand insights of how sustainability and economy can be reconciled ₆ and how agents of change successfully develop the blueprint of a decentralized energy future |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Distributed generation of electric power -- Economic aspects -- Germany.
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Distributed generation of electric power -- Germany -- Finance.
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Energy industries -- Germany.
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Distributed generation of electric power -- Government policy -- Germany.
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Energy policy -- Germany.
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Renewable energy sources -- Government policy -- Germany.
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| Author |
Weinmann, Jens.
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| LC no. |
2012554221 |
| ISBN |
1137270691 (hbk.) |
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9781137270696 (hbk.) |
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