Solar Prosumage: An Economic Discussion of Challenges and Opportunities

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Zerrahn, Alexander; Kunz, Friedrich

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“…Therefore, transferring their findings to concrete implementation strategies for the real grid (including integration measures in the distribution grid) turns out to be much costlier than anticipated or even technically infeasible. Cost underestimations have been observed, for example, for the integration of decentral technologies such as prosumers 17 . In order to overcome infeasible system states, bottom‐up approaches (such as cellular approaches presented by Lehmann et al 18 ) are helpful, but they do not guarantee yielding the intended system designs, especially with regard to affordability, reliability, or sustainability.…”

Section: Analyzing Future Energy Systemsmentioning

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Bridging granularity gaps to decarbonize large‐scale energy systems—The case of power system planning

Cao

Haas

Sperber

et al. 2021

Energy Science & Engineering

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The comprehensive evaluation of strategies for decarbonizing large‐scale energy systems requires insights from many different perspectives. In energy systems analysis, optimization models are widely used for this purpose. However, they are limited in incorporating all crucial aspects of such a complex system to be sustainably transformed. Hence, they differ in terms of their spatial, temporal, technological, and economic perspective and either have a narrow focus with high resolution or a broad scope with little detail. Against this background, we introduce the so‐called granularity gaps and discuss two possibilities to address them: increasing the resolutions of the established optimization models, and the different kinds of model coupling. After laying out open challenges, we propose a novel framework to design power systems in particular. Our exemplary concept exploits the capabilities of power system optimization, transmission network simulation, distribution grid planning, and agent‐based simulation. This integrated framework can serve to study the energy transition with greater comprehensibility and may be a blueprint for similar multimodel analyses.

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Section: Analyzing Future Energy Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging granularity gaps to decarbonize large‐scale energy systems—The case of power system planning

Cao

Haas

Sperber

et al. 2021

Energy Science & Engineering

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“…Studies on households and smart grids have examined how with the introduction of smart grids, households are imagined to get a more active role in the energy system through monitoring their household energy consumption and production, and responding to this information by shifting their energy use in time, or taking energy-saving measures [2]. Home energy management by prosumers (who then become 'prosumer-managers' or "prosumagers" [3,4]), in the forms of both everyday behavioural adjustments and automated digital energy technologies (such as storage devices and smart heating systems), is considered crucial to the success of smart grids [12,21].…”

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“…Their involvement in so-called demand response programs makes them co-managers of the grid [2]. Recently, the term 'prosumager' [3,4] has been coined to refer to grid-connected households who have, next to solar panels, also installed residential batteries.…”

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Platforms in Power: Householder Perspectives on the Social, Environmental and Economic Challenges of Energy Platforms

Smale

Kloppenburg

2020

Sustainability

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New business models and digital infrastructures, in the form of ‘energy platforms’, are emerging as part of a transition towards decarbonised, decentralised, and digitised energy systems. These energy platforms offer new ways for householders to trade or exchange energy with other households or with energy system actors, but also bring along challenges. This paper examines how householders engage with potential environmental, social, and economic opportunities and risks of energy platforms. We convened two serious-game style workshops in which Dutch frontrunner householders assumed the role of platform members and were challenged to deliberate about different scenarios and issues. The workshop results, while explorative in nature, are indicative of a willingness to pursue energy system integration rather than autarky or grid defection. The idea of energy platforms as vehicles for energy justice appealed less to the householders, although the participants were moderately interested in sharing surplus renewable energy. Finally, environmental motivations were of key importance in householders’ evaluation of different platform types. This shows that in the role of energy platform members, householders can engage with both the community and the grid in new and different ways, leading to a diversity of possible outcomes for householder engagement.

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“…Studies on households and smart grids have examined how with the introduction of smart grids, households are imagined to get a more active role in the energy system through monitoring their household energy consumption and production, and responding to this information by shifting their energy use in time, or taking energy-saving measures [2]. Home energy management by prosumers (who then become 'prosumer-managers' or "prosumagers " Schill et al, 2019;Sioshansi, 2019), in the forms of both everyday behavioural adjustments and automated digital energy technologies (such as storage devices and smart heating systems), is considered crucial to the success of smart grids (Naus, 2017;Smale et al, 2018).…”

Section: Prosumers As Co-managers Of Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, the term 'prosumager' (Schill et al, 2019;Sioshansi, 2019) has been coined to refer to grid-connected households who have, next to solar panels, also installed residential batteries.…”

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Smart grids the human scale : Investigating householder participation in the decentralization, digitalization and decarbonization of energy grids in the Netherlands

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Stable, affordable and sustainable electricity production, transportation and consumption are crucial to the functioning of any modern society. Nowadays, utility providers face technical, environmental, and societal challenges in securing the taken-for-granted services the energy grid is expected to provide to household. The electrification of daily life, especially in the sphere of mobility (EVs) and electrified heating, in combination with the rise of decentralized renewable generation (rooftop solar), places increasing pressure on the electricity distribution grid. This challenge goes together with an unprecedented pressure on the energy sector to reduce its climate impact in the next decades.Smart grids are heralded as promising socio-technical innovation and a comprehensive solution for making the energy grid more flexible and green (Yu et al., 2011;Darby et al., 2013). A smart grid can be defined as "a socio-technical network characterised by the active management of both information and energy flows, in order to control practices of distributed generation, storage, consumption and flexible demand" (Wolsink, 2012, p. 824). Smart grids innovations presume the involvement of householders, who, by conserving, monitoring, and timing their consumption with the help of various smart technologies and information flows, contribute to the sustainability and stability of the electricity grid. To realize flexible grid management and decarbonization as key objectives of smart grids, domestic practices of (energy) consumption will undergo significant change. Without the engagement of householders these changes are unlikely to be achieved.In light of these developments and the maturation of smart grid technologies, policy-makers, technology designers and infrastructure planners are in need for knowledge regarding the factors that determine the specific ways in which householders (co-) shape their everyday life involvement in smart grids (Verbong et al. 2013;Skjølsvold and Lindkvist, 2015; Geelen et al., 2016). In what -both individual and organized -ways, to what extent and with what kind of ideas, moods, values and emotions are householders gradually becoming engaged with the key objectives of smart grid developments? To answer this set of questions, communities of experts, including engineers, grid managers, (social-)psychologists and behavioural economists, have applied different perspectives and methods in the search for pathways towards the social embedding of smart grids in the everyday lives of situated households. So far, technology design, economic modelling and nudging individual behaviours have emerged as core features for Research aim and research questionsThe following three main research questions underlie the proceeding chapters 2 to 5 and will be answered in concluding Chapter 6. Complexity of householder agencyAs described in section 1.1, complexities with respect to householder agency in smart grids is found on two (equally important and interrelated) levels: (1) householders' (behavioural) response to ...

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Solar Prosumage: An Economic Discussion of Challenges and Opportunities

Cited by 12 publications

References 34 publications

Bridging granularity gaps to decarbonize large‐scale energy systems—The case of power system planning

Bridging granularity gaps to decarbonize large‐scale energy systems—The case of power system planning

Platforms in Power: Householder Perspectives on the Social, Environmental and Economic Challenges of Energy Platforms

Smart grids the human scale : Investigating householder participation in the decentralization, digitalization and decarbonization of energy grids in the Netherlands

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