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The Governance of Urban Energy System Transition: the Case of Smart Grids. Amin Dehdarian École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) / Switzerland. What is the domain of this research? Why Smart Grids Matter? What is the problem? How to approach the problem? Methodology? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Governance of Urban Energy System Transition: the Case of Smart Grids
Amin DehdarianÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) / Switzerland
The Governance of Urban Energy System Transition23 June 2014
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• What is the domain of this research?• Why Smart Grids Matter?• What is the problem?• How to approach the problem?• Methodology?• What is the way forward?
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Urbanization Climate Change
Sustainable Urban Energy Infrastructure
GovernanceOf UES
Transition
Energy Conservation
Reducing the Dependency to Unsustainable Energy
Sources
Promotion of Sustainable Energy
Sources
SystemEfficiency
Improvement
RenewableEnergy
Production
Institutional/ TechnologicalDevelopment
Urbanization Climate Change
Sustainable Urban Energy Infrastructure
GovernanceOf UES
Transition
Energy Conservation
Reducing the Dependency to Unsustainable Energy
Sources
Promotion of Sustainable Energy
Sources
SystemEfficiency
Improvement
RenewableEnergy
Production
Institutional/ TechnologicalDevelopment
Urbanization Climate Change
Sustainable Urban Energy Infrastructure
GovernanceOf UES
Transition
Energy Conservation
Reducing the Dependency to Unsustainable Energy
Sources
Promotion of Sustainable Energy
Sources
SystemEfficiency
Improvement
RenewableEnergy
Production
Institutional/ TechnologicalDevelopment
A framework for the governance of urban
energy system transition
Governance and Dynamics
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Wider Institutional Environment
Independency to Unsustainable Energy Sources
Financial Capability
Knowledge/ Technology
Transfer
RenewableEnergy
Production
Institutional Capability
TechnicalBase
LocalResources
ExternalFunding
SystemEfficiency
Energy Conservation
Sustainable UES
Investment
InstitutionalChange
CulturalLearning
Technological changes/ Wider technical base
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• What is the domain of this research?• Why Smart Grids Matter?• What is the problem?• How to approach the problem?• Methodology?• What is the way forward?
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Why Smart Grid matters?
• New Paradigms:– Distributed Energy Generation (DEG)– Real-time Data (RTD)– Demand Management (DM)
• Smart Grid: an electricity network that can intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supplies.
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Distributed Energy
Generation
Integration of Renewable
Energy Systems
Renewable Energy
Production
Real-time Data & Supply
Smart Metering
System Efficiency
Improvement
Demand Management
Consumer Involvement
Energy Conservation
New Paradigm
Smart Grids
Energy Transition
Urbanization Climate Change
Sustainable Urban Energy Infrastructure
GovernanceOf UES
Transition
Energy Conservation
Reducing the Dependency to Unsustainable Energy
Sources
Promotion of Sustainable Energy
Sources
SystemEfficiency
Improvement
RenewableEnergy
Production
Institutional/ TechnologicalDevelopment
Smart Grids
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• What is the domain of this research?• Why Smart Grids Matter?• What is the problem?• How to approach the problem?• Methodology?• What is the way forward?
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Problem Statement
• Cost-intensive• Not market-driven• Needs to policy intervention and regulation
• Research Question:“How policy interventions and regulations in electricity systems influence the governance of transition to smart
grids in urban energy systems?”
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Problem Owners
• Strategic decision makers– Regulators, policy makers, mayors, big businesses and
utility companies• Practitioners– NGOs, producers, operators, distributors, etc.
• Researchers– Energy transition, urban planning, Complexity science,
etc.
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• What is the domain of this research?• Why Smart Grids Matter?• What is the problem?• How to approach the problem?• Methodology?• What is the way forward?
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How to approach the problem?
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Urban Studies
Multi-level Governance
Local Policies and agency
Competitiveness or growth
Urban Development & Sustainability
Urban Energy Infrastructure
City as a complex socio-technical system
Multi-level governance of a multi-actor system
Policy implementation for the emergence of
transition
Urban level
Complexity Theory
Socio-technical Systems
Multi-actor
Emergence
Sector/National level
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• What is the domain of this research?• Why Smart Grids Matter?• What is the problem?• How to approach the problem?• Methodology?• What is the way forward?
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Methodology
• Complex system approach– City as a multi-actor and socio-technical system
• Transition science– Intervention of policies and regulations in order to
make the transition happen in urban electricity infrastructure
• Agent-based modeling– Bottom-up approach, transition as an emergent
phenomenon
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• What is the domain of this research?• Why Smart Grids Matter?• What is the problem?• How to approach the problem?• Methodology?• What is the way forward?
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Next Steps
• Primary analysis of smart grids, application of micro-grids and smart metering roll-out in urban areas
• System and Actor analysis
• Modeling two different levels:– Technological level– Social level: proactive and reactive actors
• Policy selection, analysis and intervention23 June 2014
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Amin [email protected]
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Thank you for your attention
