Innovation is key to achieving a sustainable electricity system. New technologies and organizational changes can bring about more sustainable, climate-friendly electricity structures. Yet the dynamics of innovation are complex, and difficult to shape. This book, written by experts in the field, sets out to explore the dynamics, the drivers and the setting of innovation processes. Case studies on micro cogeneration, carbon capture and storage, consumer feedback, network regulation and emissions trading provide insights into innovation dynamics in the electricity system and are analyzed to derive strategic implications for innovation policies. A special focus is placed on drivers and barriers of change, and their consequences for shaping the innovation process. This book is an indispensable source of information for researchers and decision makers in energy and climate change as well as for lecturers and students interested in the principles and ramifications of electricity innovation dynamics.
The transformation of electricity systems requires new networks. However, network regulation has mainly been aimed at cost reduction of existing networks via incentive regulation. This book analyzes if and how network regulation can accommodate these new challenges. Transforming the Grid takes the network integration of distributed generation (DG) as an example and examines the cases of the United Kingdom and Denmark. The research is broken down according to different governance issues: DG connection and integration, network innovation, and transformation. The liberalization literature holds that additional objectives can be incorporated in the market and regulation framework through price signals. However, a large body of literature based on evolutionary economics argues that innovation and systemic transformation require governance mechanisms that complement the price mechanism of the market to overcome the lock-in of the existing system and coordinate innovation processes. Against this general background, the book shows the potential of the standard model of regulation to pursue new objectives, as well as the need to broaden the scope beyond governance based on economic incentives. (Series: Competition and Regulation of Markets and Companies / Wettbewerb und Regulierung von Markten und Unternehmen - Vol. 20)
Innovation is key to achieving a sustainable electricity system. New technologies and organizational changes can bring about more sustainable, climate-friendly electricity structures. Yet the dynamics of innovation are complex, and difficult to shape. This book, written by experts in the field, sets out to explore the dynamics, the drivers and the setting of innovation processes. Case studies on micro cogeneration, carbon capture and storage, consumer feedback, network regulation and emissions trading provide insights into innovation dynamics in the electricity system and are analyzed to derive strategic implications for innovation policies. A special focus is placed on drivers and barriers of change, and their consequences for shaping the innovation process. This book is an indispensable source of information for researchers and decision makers in energy and climate change as well as for lecturers and students interested in the principles and ramifications of electricity innovation dynamics.
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