Transforming the Grid: Electricity System Governance and Network Integration of Distributed Generation

摘要

Dierk Bauknecht's book addresses the following question: How can electricity market liberalization and sustainability be reconciled? He analyzes "… whether and how the standard model of network regulation that is part of the standard model of electricity market liberalization can be developed and adapted to accommodate DG [distributed generation] and network developments necessary to integrate a higher share of DG" (p. 20). He concludes that the additional objectives that sustainability entail cannot be incorporated into a market framework through efficient price signals alone. Instead, a governance mechanism is needed to overcome the lock-in of the existing system and to coordinate innovation processes.