This chapter discusses how trends in technology translate into novel business models, which in turn require dedicated transactional agreements as well as adjusted regulation. Regulators and policymakers are taking on the challenge of facilitating the integration of electricity from renewable sources and leveraging the potential of digitalization in the energy sector. This furthers the evolution of regulation from the aim of reducing the cost of network provision to catering for a cost-increasing transformation of the network service. The cases of Germany and the Netherlands serve to illustrate: one showcasing incremental change and the other the need to leap ahead and reinvent to some extent. These national cases illustrate measures limiting grid users’ access to scarce network capacity, incentivizing their flexibility and encouraging network operators to innovate grid operation beyond the technical realm. The future for this sector, however, appears to take shape on a new, European level.
Electrification has moved from a sectoral aspiration to the backbone of the European Union’s decarbonisation strategy, because it alone enables a sustainable break with imported fossil fuels. Yet as this [...]
The energy consumers are entering a new era of digitalisation in the energy market, and as a result, gaining access to innovative offers and services that were before non-existent to [...]
The literature on a ‘just transition’ has grown exponentially over the last decade. The success of the just transition scholarship is due to the earlier endorsement and dissemination of a [...]
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