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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
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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
Institutional/
Technological
Development
Governance
Of UES
Transition
Promotion of
Sustainable Energy
Sources
Renewable
Energy
Production
System
Efficiency
Improvement
Reducing the Dependency
to Unsustainable Energy
Sources
Energy
Conservation
Urbanization
Climate Change
Sustainable
Urban Energy
Infrastructure
Institutional/
Technological
Development
Governance
Of UES
Transition
Promotion of
Sustainable Energy
Sources
Renewable
Energy
Production
System
Efficiency
Improvement
Reducing the Dependency
to Unsustainable Energy
Sources
Energy
Conservation
Urbanization
Climate Change
Sustainable
Urban Energy
Infrastructure
Institutional/
Technological
Development
A framework for the
governance of urban
energy system transition
Governance
Of UES
Transition
Promotion of
Sustainable Energy
Sources
Renewable
Energy
Production
System
Efficiency
Improvement
Reducing the Dependency
to Unsustainable Energy
Sources
Energy
Conservation
Governance and Dynamics
Technological
changes/ Wider
technical base
Knowledge/
Technology
Transfer
Wider
Institutional
Environment
External
Funding
Renewable
Energy
Production
Investment
Independency to
Unsustainable
Energy Sources
System
Efficiency
Institutional
Change
Sustainable UES
Energy
Conservation
Cultural
Learning
Financial
Capability
Institutional
Capability
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Base
Local
Resources
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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
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Urbanization
Climate Change
Sustainable
Urban Energy
Infrastructure
Institutional/
Technological
Development
Governance
Of UES
Transition
Promotion of
Sustainable Energy
Sources
Reducing the Dependency
to Unsustainable Energy
Sources
Smart Grids
Renewable
Energy
Production
System
Efficiency
Improvement
Energy
Conservation
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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?
Urban Studies
Multi-level
Governance
Urban Energy
Infrastructure
City as a complex
socio-technical system
Local Policies and
agency
Competitiveness or
growth
Urban Development
& Sustainability
Multi-level governance
of a multi-actor
system
Policy implementation
for the emergence of
transition
Complexity
Theory
Socio-technical
Systems
Multi-actor
Emergence
Sector/National
level
Urban level
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What is the domain of this research?
Why Smart Grids Matter?
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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?
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How to approach the problem?
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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 intervention
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Amin Dehdarian
[email protected]
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