Why the Time Has Arrived To Rethink The Electric Business Model

Electricity Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 65-74

  Sioshansi, Fereidoon P ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; DEMAND GROWTH; UTILITY BUSINESS;

EID: 84867437706     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. IEE white paper, May 2011.
2. AMORY LOVINS, REINVENTING FIRE: BOLD BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR THE NEW ENERGY ERA (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green), 2011.
3. A new development at UC Davis, called West Village, housing 3,000 students reportedly meets the ZNE definition, suggesting that entire communities generating as much electricity as the consume are feasible.
4. Capturing the Full Electricity Efficiency Potential of the UK, DECC,July 2012.
5. Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, New York City, July 2012.
6. See http://www.emeter.com/ smart-grid-watch/2012/how-fast-is-us-electricity-consumption-growing/.
7. Wood Mackenzie: A Decade of Lost Electricity Demand Growth Forcing a New U.S. Energy Landscape, press release, Aug. 21, 2012.
8. Diane Caldwell, Solar Panel Payments Set Off a Fairness Debate, N.Y. TIMES, June 4, 2012.
9. California's Tiered Rates Turn Off Heavy Users, Literally, EENERGY INFORMER, Aug. 2012.
10. P. Harper-Sloboszewics et al., Customer View of Smart Grid: Set and Forget?, in SMART GRID, F. Sioshansi, Ed. (Elsevier, 2011).
11. John Caldwell, Edison Electric Institute, posted e-mail.
12. 2011 Wind Technologies Market Report, DOE, July 2012.
13. Renewable Electricity Futures Study, NREL, 2012.
14. To highlight the point, consider a distribution company with little or no generation or transmission and no retailing business. Such stand-alone distribution companies actually exist, for example, in Australia, where this is already the case.