When top-down meets bottom-up: Is there a collaborative business model for local energy storage?
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As the energy transition progresses, energy storage becomes increasingly important for safeguarding a reliable energy provision. At the same time, energy storage systems are used to increase the self-consumption of decentralised generation and are expected to result in lower electricity bills for the energy prosumers. Drawing on sustainability transitions and management literature, this contribution focuses on a neighbourhood battery with the aim to explore to what extent a collaboration between a network operator and renewable energy initiatives on local energy storage could help increase the impact of the latter in the energy transition. The concept of a neighbourhood battery involves strategic decisions, and perhaps a strategic innovation, whose transformative potential depends to a large extent on the perceptions and actions of those involved. This paper explores the opportunities and constraints for a collaborative business model for the neighbourhood battery in the Netherlands, as well as the challenges and tensions that emerge for the main parties involved. The perspectives of the network operator were compared with those of renewable energy initiatives in the country, including the Energy Service Company involved in the pilot and, in parts, with the perspectives of the involved end-users. This contribution registers a misalignment of interests and expectations which complicates the deployment of the neighbourhood battery concept. Recognizing the critical role of network operators, the conditions that may enable the emergence of collaborative business models for local energy storage are also discussed.
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The new regulatory context in the European Union and Switzerland states that the ownership and operation of energy storage is restricted for DSO, however, they could use tenders to engage market actors (like prosumers and aggregators) who own energy storage to provide grid services.
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Gupta, R., Pena-Bello, A., Streicher, K. N., Roduner, C., Farhat, Y., Thöni, D., Patel, M. K., & Parra, D. (2021) · Applied Energy · doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116504 · Cited by 161 · see citing works
- Authors
- Proka, A., Hisschemöller, M., & Loorbach, D.
- Affiliations
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Proka, Antonia
- Venue
- Energy Research & Social Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-11
- Volume
- 69
- Pages
- 101606
- ISSN
- 2214-6296 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3036310791
- Cited by
- 31
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- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 1.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- Energy Research & Social Science (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Smart Grid Energy Management
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Renewable Energy and Sustainability
- Keywords
- local energy storage, cooperative business models, network operators, energy service companies, energy prosumers, energy transition, strategic innovation, stakeholder misalignment, energy storage deployment, Netherlands
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