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Energy entrepreneurship business models innovation: insights from European emerging firms

Michael Hamwi, ESTIA The power sector stands at the edge of a transition phase in which the liberalization of energy markets has paved the way for a new set of...

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...

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 o...

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 ...

The role of utilities in enabling prosumers and flexible distributed energy resources

Daniel Quiggin, Chatham House This paper explores how utilities could transform as the electricity system undergoes a second phase of transformations and the b...

No one left behind – Consumer empowerment, protection and universal service in the low carbon

Chris Harris , npower The fourth and fifth carbon budgets have challenges in implementation of current policies, and some remaining policy gaps. The Paris comm...

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 (‘bloc...

Business participation in demand response: a review of potential barriers

Catarina Araya Cardoso, Westminster Business School Demand side response (DSR) is widely seen as the main intervention tool to address issues of peaks and trou...

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,Â...

Demand response as a common pool resource game: Nudges versus prices

Penelope Buckley, Université Grenoble Alpes With the increasing share of renewable energy and distributed power generators, there is a need for new strategies...

From Airbnb to Solar: Toward a Transaction Cost Model of a Retail Electricity Distribution Platform

Lynne Kiesling, Purdue University Digitalization, decentralization, and decarbonization are economic factors poised to disrupt many aspects of the utility busi...

Swarm demand response: virtual storage by small consumers

Joachim Geske, Imperial College Business School Overview + Relevance Energy storage and demand response (DR) are options for coping with the rising share of...
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