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Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future: How technological innovations in distributed generation will reshape the electric power sector relates the latest information on the electric power sector its rapid transformation, particularly on the distribution network and customer side. Trends like the rapid rise of self-generation and distributed generation, microgrids, demand response, the dissemination of electric vehicles and zero-net energy buildings that promise to turn many consumers into prosumers are discussed. The book brings together authors from industry and academic backgrounds to present their original, cutting-edge and thought-provoking ideas on the challenges currently faced by electric utilities around the globe, the opportunities they present, and what the future might hold for both traditional players and new entrants to the sector. The book's first part lays out the present scenario, with concepts such as an integrated grid, microgrids, self-generation, customer-centric service, and pricing, while the second part focuses on how innovation, policy, regulation, and pricing models may come together to form a new electrical sector, exploring the reconfiguring of the current institutions, new rates design in light of changes to retail electricity markets and energy efficiency, and the cost and benefits of integration of distributed or intermittent generation, including coupling local renewable energy generation with electric vehicle fleets. The final section projects the future function and role of existing electrical utilities and newcomers to this sector, looking at new pathways for business and pricing models, consumer relations, technology, and innovation. Contains discussions that help readers understand the underlying causes and drivers of change in the electrical sector, and what these changes mean in financial, operational, and regulatory terms Provides thought-provoking ideas on the challenges currently faced by electric utilities around the globe, the opportunities they present, and what the future might hold for both traditional players and new entrants to the sector Helps readers anticipate what developments are likely to define the function and role of the utility of the future

Distributed generation of electric power --- Electric utilities --- Technological innovations. --- Electric companies --- Electric light and power industry --- Electric power industry --- Electric industries --- Energy industries --- Public utilities --- Decentralized generation of electric power --- Generation of electric power, Distributed --- Distributed resources (Electric utilities) --- Electric power production

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This book addresses the problem of building an optimal community energy network in a decentralized distributed energy context. The book introduces a few novel modeling frameworks to assist a single customer or a community of multiple end-user customers in building their optimal electricity system/network and operating their own local energy system. The content of the book is suitable for students, academics and industrial practitioners studying or working in the area of energy management and smart grid energy networks.

Energy. --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Electric power production. --- Power electronics. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks. --- Energy Technology. --- Distributed generation of electric power. --- Decentralized generation of electric power --- Generation of electric power, Distributed --- Distributed resources (Electric utilities) --- Electric power production --- Production of electric energy or. --- Energy Systems. --- Energy systems. --- Electronics, Power --- Electric power --- Electronics --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Government policy

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Urban DC Microgrid: Intelligent Control and Power Flow Optimization focuses on microgrids for urban areas, particularly associated with building-integrated photovoltaic and renewable sources. This book describes the most important problems of DC microgrid application, with grid-connected and off-grid operating modes, aiming to supply DC building distribution networks.The book considers direct current (DC) microgrid to supply DC building distribution networks for positive energy buildings; dynamic interactions with the utility grid based on communication with the smart grid; supervisory control systems; and energy management. The global power system is exposed and the DC microgrid system is presented and analyzed with results and discussion, highlighting both the advantages and limitations of the concept. Coverage at the system level of microgrid control as well as the various technical aspects of the power system components make this a book interesting to academic researchers, industrial energy researchers, electrical power and power system professionals.

Renewable energy sources. --- Interconnected electric utility systems. --- Distributed generation of electric power. --- Decentralized generation of electric power --- Generation of electric power, Distributed --- Distributed resources (Electric utilities) --- Electric power production --- Electric power pooling --- Electric utility systems, Interconnected --- Interties (Electric utilities) --- System interconnection, Electric power --- Transmission line interconnection --- Electric power distribution --- Electric power-plants --- Electric power systems --- Electric utilities --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Renewable energy sources --- Interconnected electric utility systems --- Distributed generation of electric power