- Preface
- Abbreviations
- I. The Need for Power and the Grids That Deliver It
- 1. Les Jeux Sont Faits
- Leapfrogging and Euthanasia
- Beyond Decarbonization
- 2. The Future Is Electric
- Deconstructing Electricity Growth
- Long-Term Efficiency Trends
- Enter Carbon
- The AI Wild Card
- Electricity’s Third Act
- 3. La Vida Local
- Solar in the City, 2016
- Solar in the City, 2050
- Local Power versus the Grid, 2050
- 4. Why We Grid
- The Case for Big
- Aggregation and Trading
- Grids and Geographic Diversity
- Not Quite Case Closed
- 5. The Fragmented Future
- How to Damage a Grid, Part 1: Summon Poseidon
- Grid Vulnerabilities and the Climate
- Grid Coping Skills
- The Microgrid Revolution
- How to Damage a Grid, Part 2: Hire a Hacker
- New Architectural Paradigms
- The Fragmented Future
- 1. Les Jeux Sont Faits
- II. The Grid and Its Challenges
- 6. Decarbonizing the Big Grid
- The Old Design Paradigm
- The New Paradigm
- The Clean Power Toolkit
- From Lab Bench to Toolkit
- From Toolkit to Reality
- 7. Not in My Backyard-State-Region
- Planning the No-Carbon Future
- Not in My Backyard
- Searching for Supergrids
- The Future of Grid Expansion
- 8. The Big Grid Bucks Stop Here
- A Power Plant’s Early Retirement Package
- Power Markets and Plant Financing in a Carbon-Free Future
- Pros, Cons, and Trade-Offs in Long-Term Markets
- Fixing the Long-Term Markets
- The Big Grid’s Future
- 6. Decarbonizing the Big Grid
- III. Running and Regulating Post-Carbon Utilities
- 9. The New Utility Business in Three Dimensions
- The Business Model Rainbow
- Public Power and Cooperatives
- New Products and Horizons
- Toward Customer Love
- 10. The Really Smart Grid
- The Prosumer ESCO Marketplace
- Market Optimum and Public Interest
- Grid Pricing and “Optimizing” the System
- Retail Choice’s Next Act
- Machine over Market
- 11. Governing a Really Smart Grid
- Setting Regulation’s Goals
- Pricing Grid Services
- The Problem of Fixed Costs
- Planning and Building the Distribution System
- Of Elegance and Complexity
- 12. The Business and Regulation of Energy Service Utilities
- The Case for ESUs
- Changing Utilities’ Cultural Stripes
- Regulating an ESU
- Cross-Subsidies and the Space for Political Bargains
- 13. Forces and Fault Lines beyond the Industry
- Big Tech and Monopoly Power
- Privacy and the Smart Grid
- Energy Democracy
- Political Fault Lines
- 14. Money Talks
- Wall Street and New Business Models
- 15. Power without Carbon
- 9. The New Utility Business in Three Dimensions
- Appendix A: Summary of Policy Recommendations
- Appendix B: The Challenges to Energy Spot Markets with Increased Wind and Solar Generation
- Appendix C: Source Notes for Figure 2-2
- Appendix D: Supplement to Table 6-1
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Power after Carbon
Building a Clean, Resilient Grid
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