Open AccessTransforming energy infrastructure between market incentives and local cooperation
Author(s) -
Mieke Oostra,
R. Herlaar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/588/5/052053
Subject(s) - incentive , production (economics) , competition (biology) , business , position (finance) , investment (military) , industrial organization , value (mathematics) , capital (architecture) , environmental economics , economics , market economy , microeconomics , finance , computer science , history , ecology , archaeology , machine learning , politics , political science , law , biology
Distribution system (grid) operators (DSO’s) currently experience turbulent times. Changes in society and the energy infrastructure related to the worldwide accords to diminish CO2 emissions and the rise of decentral energy production demand a different position from DSO’s. Until recently DSO’s were utilities part of larger companies combining energy production, transportation and delivery. This changed after the introduction of a market model in the EU, making sure that consumers had a choice and competition would promote more efficiency and the investment of private capital in energy production. Now we are facing major impacts of the results of man induced global warming current economic models are questioned. Therefore it is important to investigate whether a different way of organizing would be able to bring about social transformation and different results that would be of value in reducing CO2 emissions and addressing adverse effects of the current economic system. In this paper it is investigated what the different model of cooperation would bring. This paper uses a framework of cooperation to explore new ways of working for DSO’s in the Netherlands. For this a case study is used directed at facilitating internal cooperation within one Dutch DSO.