Behind and Beyond the Meter

Digitalization, Aggregation, Optimization, Monetization

Fereidoon Sioshansi editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Published:4th Feb '20

Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 29th April 2025, but could change

Behind and Beyond the Meter cover

The historical ways in which electricity was generated in large central power plants and delivered to passive customers through a one-way transmission and distribution network – as everyone knows – is radically changing to one where consumers can generate, store and consume a significant portion of their energy needs energy locally. This, however, is only the first step, soon to be followed by the ability to share or trade with others using the distribution network. More exciting opportunities are possible with the increased digitalization of BTM assets, which in turn can be aggregated into large portfolios of flexible load and generation and optimized using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

"A new book [delving into] the nitty gritty of similar and more broad-based production, use, storage and trading of behind-the-meter alternative energy technologies, Behind and Beyond the Meter looks at the rapidly changing energy sector driven by the rise of renewable resources on the supply side and equally dramatic developments on the demand side, including distributed generation and storage, electric vehicles and other like innovations. "It’s not far fetched," to imagine a future with many net zero energy communities, those generating and feeding into the network as many kWhs as they take out, Sioshansi emphasized. Standing in the way are regulatory barriers, including those that thwart localized trading of power. The editor and contributors urge regulators to avoid stifling innovation and instead to encourage and reward this energy innovation."--Elizabeth McCarthy, 9 Apr 2020, CA Current "provides a thorough survey of the issues arising from "behind" the meter. As the epilogue highlights, decentralisation and digitalisation are surely well underway, along with activation of new interactions, whether through aggregators, platforms or other means, justifying the initial claim of the book to cover most interesting and fertile territory." --Martin Crouch, 4D Economics

ISBN: 9780128199510

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 950g

460 pages