Solving infrastructural concerns through a market reorganization

A case study of a Danish smart grid demonstration

Bibliographic Data

ID13065660
AuthorsTrine Pallesen (0000-0001-8844-9336, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author), Peter Holm Jacobsen (0000-0002-8538-7691, Copenhagen Business School)
Year2018
Volume41
Pages80-88
Publication date2018-04-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnergy Research & Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2214-6296 • E-ISSN: 2214-6326
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.005
OpenAlexW2802861712
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited52

Following the rapid growth of wind power in Denmark in the past 20 years, energy infrastructure has become increasingly politicized. Fluctuating renewables not only contest the dominant ‘logic’ of operating the system, namely ‘supply-follows-demand’, but it also introduces new actors like aggregators and reconfigures existing market actors. In this paper, we study a case, EcoGrid 2.0 on the Danish island Bornholm, as a case of a ‘marketized’ solution to the infrastructural concerns emerging from the large share of fluctuating wind power in the system. The market design involves transforming ‘flexible consumption’ into an exchangeable good, as well as a transformation of households into ‘distributed energy resources’, making it possible to capitalize on the existing infrastructure in new ways. We end the paper with a discussion of the implications for infrastructure; when households become balancing entities and a digital and smart infrastructure is made indispensable to the operation of the system, the infrastructure grows significantly in terms of scope and complexity eventually introducing yet new challenges

Business · Danish · Electrical engineering · Geography · Grid · Smart grid · Computer Science · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public-Private Partnership Projects · Smart Grid Energy Management

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