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Part I. What is changing and what are the implications
1. What future for electric power sector
2. The value of an integrated grid
3. Microgrids: Finally finding their place
4. The new power on the consumer side of the meter
5. A customer-centric view of electricity service
6. The role of the utility and pricing in the transition
Part II. Innovation, policy, regulations, pricing
7. Regulation for a sustainable energy system – reconfiguring the institutions
8. Rate design of the future
9. Rates and revenues: Differential impacts of customer-sited distributed generation in vertically-integrated and competitive retail markets
10. Rehabilitating Retail Electricity Markets: Pitfalls and Opportunities
11. Assessing the Cost and Benefits of DER Integration
12. Efficiency and equity considerations in designing rates in the context of the death spiral for electric utilities
13. Modeling the impacts of disruptive technologies and pricing on peak demand
14. Intermittency – it’s the short-term that matters
15. Opportunities and challenges in coupling local renewable energy generation with EV fleets
Part III. Function and role of the utility of the future – or the future of utilities
16. Identifying value pools, building new business models, and defining strategies rooted in inherent capabilities in utilities
17. Utilities don’t simply connect, they integrate
18. Smart, renewable or decentralized: Strategic choices of European energy incumbents
19. Imagine a future where entrepreneurial, profitable utilities thrive despite disruptive technologies: German case study
20. The future of utility customers and utility customers of the future
21. Flexibility business models: new actors, new roles, new rules
22. Decentralized reliability options – market based capacity arrangements
23. Network pricing for the prosumer future: Demand-based tariffs or nodal pricing?
24. The evolution of smart grids begs disaggregated nodal pricing
25. The distributed utility: Conflicts and opportunities between the incumbent
utilities, suppliers and the emerging new entrants
26. Innovation platform enables the Internet of things
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