The flexible prosumer: Measuring the willingness to co-create distributed flexibility

M Kubli, M Loock, R Wüstenhagen - Energy policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Rising shares of fluctuating renewables increase the need for flexibility in the power market.
At the same time, the emergence of the prosumer has created new opportunities for co …

Prosumer communities as strategic allies for electric utilities: Exploring future decentralization trends in Switzerland

JZ Riveros, M Kubli, S Ulli-Beer - Energy Research & Social Science, 2019 - Elsevier
A prosumer community is a group of households that are organized together to consume
energy from a common decentralized generation system such as solar photovoltaic (PV) …

Performance and economic viability of the PV system in different climatic zones of Nigeria

NH Umar, B Bora, C Banerjee, P Gupta… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study analyzed the effect of climatic variation on PV systems' performance and
economic viability in four climatic zones of Nigeria (warm desert, warm semi-arid, tropical …

Beauty and the budget: A segmentation of residential solar adopters

B Petrovich, SL Hille, R Wüstenhagen - Ecological Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
The transition to renewable energy supply of buildings, especially distributed solar power, is
a key element of climate change mitigation. As the policy landscape is shifting and financial …

Consumer preferences for electricity tariffs: Does proximity matter?

BJ Kalkbrenner, K Yonezawa, J Roosen - Energy Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The introduction of renewable energy sources fosters the transformation to an energy
system with distributed generation. This alters the relation between consumers and power …

Community solar as an innovative business model for building-integrated photovoltaics: An experimental analysis with Swiss electricity consumers

A Stauch, P Vuichard - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
A currently pertinent research challenge is to find ways to keep the growth rate of solar
power at a high level. The adoption of new technologies, such as building-integrated …

The price of risk in residential solar investments

B Petrovich, S Carattini, R Wüstenhagen - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Households are key actors in decarbonizing our economy, especially when it comes to
investments in a decentralized energy system, such as solar photovoltaics (PV). The …

Squaring the sunny circle? On balancing distributive justice of power grid costs and incentives for solar prosumers

M Kubli - Energy policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar prosumers are about to revolutionize the power sector. Utilities are challenged in
recovering the costs of distribution grids, as parts of their revenue basis decreases through …

Are voluntary markets effective in replacing state-led support for the expansion of renewables?–A comparative analysis of voluntary green electricity markets in the UK …

C Herbes, B Rilling, S MacDonald, N Boutin, S Bigerna - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
With state-led support being only temporary, attention has turned to retail electricity markets
to provide long-term support for renewable electricity. Past research has focused on …

Informed citizen panels on the Swiss electricity mix 2035: Longer-term evolution of citizen preferences and affect in two cities

A Dubois, S Holzer, G Xexakis, J Cousse, E Trutnevyte - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
For a successful transition to low-carbon electricity supply, public support is essential.
Citizen preferences are best understood in the process of informed citizen panels, where …