Electric Industry Structure and Regulatory Responses in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future

Technical Report · Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1237497· OSTI ID:1237497

Corneli, Steve ^[1]; Kihm, Steve ^[1]; Schwartz, Lisa ^[2]

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1. Seventhwave, Madison, WI (United States)
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

The emergence of distributed energy resources (DERs) that can generate, manage and store energy on the customer side of the electric meter is widely recognized as a transformative force in the power sector. This report focuses on two key aspects of that transformation: structural changes in the electric industry and related changes in business organization and regulation that are likely to result from them. Both industry structure and regulation are inextricably linked. History shows that the regulation of the power sector has responded primarily to innovation in technologies and business models that created significant structural changes in the sector’s cost and organizational structure.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1237497
• Report Number(s): LBNL-1003823; ir:1003823
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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