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Data is the new fuel of the grid, where does it come from and who owns the data?

Lawrence Orsini is the founder of LO3 Energy, a groundbreaking energy and tech company working on innovative new hardware and software products within the emerging distributed energy and computation industry. His wide range of experience in the energy sector ranges from the development of policy and regulatory frameworks to relationship management on energy solutions with Fortune 100 utility and corporate clients. Prior to LO3 Energy, Lawrence was the Director of New Products for CLEAResult, working as the strategic lead on the development, piloting and deployment of new utility service offerings. This focused on energy efficiency, microgrid, and load management for commercial, industrial and residential market sectors.  

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190918-Lo3-Exergy.pdf 1.61 MB
19th
Sep
2018

Continuity and Disruption in UK Energy System Change: Mapping Expert Differences – and Understanding their Implications

Mike Kattirtz, University of Edinburgh Energy systems globally are undergoing dramatic changes, and many observers anticipate accelerated changes in the years ahead. The changes are being driven by a combination of high-level national and international policy agreements, as well as more bottom-up, insurgent changes in the cost and performance of energy technologies (supply, storage and use) and also changing consumer behaviours and social practices. Less visibly, energy systems also exhibit strong elements of continuity, in terms of the renewal, extension and repurposing of existing technical infrastructures and institutions. This pattern of both disruptive and continuity-based change, which is particularly evident in the UK energy system, is reflected in energy experts’ varied prescriptions for energy system change. As a result, there are multiple working definitions of the energy system change and system integration, with many questions and uncertainties about future pathways such as the extent of system rescaling, the key public and private agents of change and the extent to which consumers and citizens are likely to play a significant role in driving change. In their review of energy scenarios, McDowall Read more…

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Kattirzi-Continuity-and-disruption-in-UK-energy-system-change.pptx 4.33 MBKattiritz-Continuity-and-disruption-in-UK-energy-sytem-change.pdf 973.16 KB
19th
Sep
2018

Unlocking the benefits to end consumers

Nicholas Rubin, ELEXON Ltd ELEXON recognises that how electricity is used is radically changing and that end consumers are being presented with more and more opportunities to actively manage their energy consumption and/or production. We recognise that the energy market (including central industry systems and processes) that facilitates this active participation will need to radically change too. A commitment to decarbonise the economy and developments in disrupting and decentralised technology, services and business models, amongst other things, is driving a great pace of change in the way electricity is produced and consumed. Whilst innovation in technology and service provision unlocks opportunities in the home, it is also unlocking opportunities that are making it a reality for smaller and smaller customers (including domestic customers) and businesses to actively participate at the heart of the electricity system, and provide services to each other and other actors across the system, in existing and new markets. On the one hand, these services might simply be based on the provision of smart meters to allow consumers to better manage their use, smart time of use Read more…

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Rubin-Unlocking-the-benefits-to-consumers-0918-v1.0.pptx 2.16 MBRubin-Unlocking-the-benefits-to-end-consumers1.pdf 319.46 KB
19th
Sep
2018

Community Energy: A New Democratised Energy System?

Helen Roby; Coventry University Introduction The UK energy sector has been one of large-scale energy production, with households viewed as passive consumers at the end of wires. With the development of renewable energy technologies and smart meters, households and communities are taking on more active roles as producers and consumers of energy. This change could lead to a reconfiguration of production and consumption, whereby the energy system becomes both decentralised and democratised, empowering individuals and communities to contribute to its decarbonisation. Context In 2014 DECC (2014) published a strategy report for community energy, aimed at supporting energy and climate change policies. This report indicated a change in government policy from centralised large-scale energy production, to small-scale dispersed generation and ownership. The DECC report explores community energy’s role in helping to meet carbon reduction targets, with the potential by 2020 to produce between 0.5GW (2.2%) and 3GW (14%) of installed energy. Community energy schemes can also deliver other benefits, including meeting local needs, maintaining energy security, saving money and wider social and economic benefits (Cherrier, Szuba, and Özçağlar-Toulouse 2012). However, such Read more…

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Roby-Community-Energy-a-new-democratised-energy-system.pptx 25.43 MBRoby-Community-energy-A-new-democtratised-energy-systeem.pdf 281.89 KB
19th
Sep
2018

The role of consumers in the uptake of decentralised energy storage technologies

Peter Taylor, University of Leeds Various forms of decentralised electricity and heat storage (decentralised energy storage, DES) could play an important role in meeting the challenges of increased energy demand and integrating new forms of low carbon energy supply. Services that can be delivered by energy storage include matching supply and demand over periods from seconds to days, maximising the utilisation of existing and new infrastructure, providing links between heat and electricity systems so allowing trade-offs between the two and ensuring secure energy supplies. However, while the technology development of these small-scale storage systems has received a lot of attention (and new technologies, for example, the Tesla Powerwall and, aggregation platforms such as Moixa’s GridShare are now available) we currently have a limited understanding of the role that households and communities could play in owning or using these technologies, and the benefits that would fall to consumers rather than the energy system as a whole. In this paper we will consider the role of consumers in the potential uptake of community- and household-scale storage. We will cover three distinct but Read more…

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Taylor-Consumers-and-decentralised-energy-storage.pptx 1.7 MBTaylor-The-Role-of-consumers-in-the-uptake-of-decentralised-energy-storage-technologies.pdf 443.57 KB
18th
Sep
2018

Energy cooperatives: a missing piece of the peer-to-peer energy regulation puzzle?

Alexandra Schneiders, UCL Energy Institute, University College London Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading, often facilitated through distributed ledgers (‘blockchains’), is emerging as a new mechanism for settling exchanges of energy between renewable energy generators and consumers, as well as matching local supply and demand. It is currently being tested in urban areas, where there are fewer renewable energy installations due to space constraints. The sharing of energy generated by a single installation (e.g. solar panels on the roof of a tower block) between residents, through a P2P blockchain-run energy trading platform, can tackle the disparity in renewable energy generation across the UK. Furthermore, grouping residents into a single legal entity, such as an energy cooperative, could resolve regulatory problems associated with P2P energy trading- such as the legal recognition of prosumers acting as consumers and entrepreneurs, as well as the validity of ‘smart contracts’ programmed to trade energy on the platform. Energy cooperatives are popular in European countries such as Denmark and Germany, where they benefit from government support. The situation is different in the United Kingdom, where energy cooperatives are Read more…

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Schneiders-Energy-Cooperatives-A-Missing-Piece-of-the-P2P-Energy-Regulation-Puzzle.pptx 1.44 MBSchneiders-Energy-cooperatives-a-missing-piece-of-the-peer-to-peer-energy-regulation-puzzle.pdf 460.95 KB
18th
Sep
2018

Attitudes, preferences and intentions to participate in peer-to-peer electricity trading: The case of Southwest German households

André Hackbarth, Reutlingen University Overview The share of electricity produced   from renewable resources in Germany increased to almost 32% in 2015,   opening perspectives for new products and services especially for   private households, who own nearly one-third of the renewable production   capacities (Trendresearch, 2017). Moreover, the rapidly increasing   degree of digitalization enables innovative business models and   stimulates the market entry of competitors from other sectors   challenging the incumbent utilities. For example, virtual and decentral   market places for peer-to-peer energy trading are currently emerging  and  have the potential to disrupt the energy market (Löbbe and  Hackbarth,  2017). The objective of this paper is, hence, to examine the  motivators  of private households’ willingness to participate in  peer-to-peer energy  trading. Relevance to the Conference Our   analysis of the determinants of the intention to adopt energy  community  products perfectly fits one of the aims of the conference,  i.e. the  assessment of consumer opinions and preferences regarding new  approaches  to energy. Further, based on the rich body of literature on  the  adoption intention for related energy technologies, such as PV  systems  (e.g. Woersdorfer and Kaus, 2011; Read more…

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Hackbarth_Loebbe_Attitudes_P2P_electricity_trading_German_households_BIEE_2018.pptx 891.64 KBHackbarth-Attitudes-preferences-and-intentions-to-participate-inpeer-to-peer-electricity-trading.pdf 320.85 KB
18th
Sep
2018

EU Retail Electricity Markets in Transition: The Quest for Adequate Design

Luis Boscan;University of Southern Denmark (SDU) After a gradual process of reforms, retail electricity markets in Europe are well-established. In parallel, the decarbonization agenda and rapid technological progress lead the way towards a renewable-based electricity system, in which new business models emerge. Distributed resources, prosumers and peer-to-peer trading are all part of the most likely scenarios. While the 2016 Clean Energy Package responds to the consensus that the electricity market design needs to adapt and aims at putting consumers at the center of the clean energy transition, most recent analyses focus on wholesale issues. I narrow this gap by focusing on arrangements downstream of the distribution network level. First, I analyze the EU retail market design in isolation and second, I study its interaction with EU renewable energy policies. I do this in both the current and the forthcoming legislative framework to elucidate if the recently politically-agreed reforms mitigate conflicts or facilitate synergies in the European energy policy framework. While I find reforms to be promising in some respects, I also find several other fundamental unresolved conflicts. As remedial measures Read more…

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Boscan-EU-Retail-Electricity-Markets-in-Transition.pdf 82.84 KBBoscan-EU-Retail-Electricity-markets-in-Transition.pptx 2.07 MB
18th
Sep
2018

The next big thing or too big for us? New business models for renewable energy cooperatives – barriers in the perception of cooperatives’ members.

Prof Carsten  Herbes, Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Germany Mr Vasco Brummer, Alanus University,Germany  Ms Naomi Gericke, Alanus University, Germany Mrs Judith Rognli, Nuertingen-Geislingen University, Germany Prof Susanne Blazejewski, Alanus University,Germany Community energy projects and especially renewable energy cooperatives (RECs) have become an increasingly important element of energy markets in various European countries (Viardot et al. 2013). Especially in the German energy market, they have changed the long unaltered market structure. As of end of 2014, 973 RECs (Holstenkamp, Müller 2015) were operating in Germany with the 772 RECs founded since 2006 alone accounting for a total capacity of approximately one Gigawatt (DGRV 2015). However, most RECs have relied on an easily scalable, simple and low-risk business model: producing electricity with photovoltaic (PV) systems and receiving feed-in tariffs (FIT) stipulated by the Renewable Energy Act (REA) (Yildiz et al. 2015). With the recent disruptive changes in the REA, especially the tendering system increasingly replacing fixed FIT, RECs have to look into new business models which has already led to a steep decline in the number of newly established RECs in 2014. New business models that have been implemented Read more…

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Herbes-The-next-big-thing_FINAL.pdf 1.69 MBHerbes-The-next-bing-thing1.pdf 744.23 KB
22nd
Sep
2016

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