Variable Generation, Flexible Demand

Table of Contents

Part One: Variable renewable generation 1. The evolution of California's variable renewable generation 2. Variability of generation in ERCOT and the role of flexible demand 3. Rising variability of generation in Italy: The grid operator's perspective 4. Integrating the rising variable renewable generation: A Spanish perspective

Part Two: Flexible demand 5. What is flexible demand; what demand is flexible? 6. Who are the customers with flexible demand, and how to find them? 7. How can flexible demand be aggregated and delivered to scale? 8. Electric vehicles: The ultimate flexible demand 9. Load flexibility: Market potential and opportunities in the US 10. Demand response in the US wholesale markets: Recent trends, new models and forecasts 11. What's limiting flexible demand from playing a bigger role in the US organized markets? The PJM experience

Part Three: Coupling flexible demand to variable generation 12. Valuing consumer flexibility in electricity market design 13. Variable renewables and demand flexibility: Day-ahead versus intra-day valuation 14. The value of flexibility in Australia's national electricity market 15. Demand flexibility and what it can contribute in Germany 16. Industrial demand flexibility: A German case study

Part Four: Implementation, business models, enabling technologies, policies, regulation 17. Market design and regulation to encourage demand aggregation and participation in European wholesale markets 18. Do time-of-use tariffs make residential demand more flexible? Evidence from Victoria, Australia 19. Empowering consumers to deliver flexible demand 20. Markets for flexibility: Product definition, market design and regulation 21. Energy communities and flexible demand 22. Flexible demand: What's in it for the customer?

Authors

Fereidoon Sioshansi President, Menlo Energy Economics, San Francisco, CA, USA. Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sector working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the "Electricity Currents� section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited 12 books on related topics with Elsevier.