Results

Smart grids and regulation are of practical relevance in the current European electricity supply system. We want to encourage discussion via the publication of the project results in the form of working papers, articles and published talks. Most of the material is available for download directly as PDF; in some cases requests have to be placed with the external publisher.

Final Report (German only)

The final report summarized the project content and results and presents the main these and recommendations. You can download the final report (German only) here.

Discussion Papers

Work package 1: Advancing incentive regulation with respect to smart grids

Stronzik, Marcus (2011). Zusammenhang zwischen Anreizregulierung und Eigenkapitalverzinsung. WIK Diskussionsbeitrag Nr. 357/IRIN working paper for working package: Advancing incentive regulation with respect to smart grids. WIK Bad Honnef.
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Müller, Christine (2011). New regulatory approaches towards investments: a revision of international experiences. WIK Diskussionsbeitrag Nr. 353/IRIN working paper for working package: Advancing incentive regulation with respect to smart grids. WIK Bad Honnef.
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Müller, Christine, Growitsch, Christian & Wissner, Matthias (2010). Regulierung und Investitionsanreize in der ökonomischen Theorie. WIK Diskussionsbeitrag Nr. 349/IRIN working paper for working package: Advancing incentive regulation with respect to smart grids. WIK Bad Honnef.
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Work package 1 2: Intelligent network pricing

Brandstätt, Christine, Brunekreeft, Gert & Friedrichsen, Nele (2011). Improving investment coordination in electricity networks through smart contracts. IRIN Working paper. Bremen Energy Working Paper Nr. 10. Bremer Energie Institut.
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Brandstätt, Christine; Brunekreeft, Gert & Friedrichsen, Nele (2012). Smart pricing to reduce network investment in smart distribution grids – experience in Germany. in: Smart Grid: Integrating Renewable, Distributed and Efficient Energy. Herausgegeben von Fereidoon P. Sioshansi, Menlo Energy Economics, Elsevier.
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Brandstätt, Christine, Brunekreeft, Gert & Friedrichsen, Nele (2011). Locational signals to reduce network investments - What works and what not? Utilities Policy, 19(4), S. 244-254.
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Work package 3: Advancement of incentive regulation: network innovation and transformation

Bauknecht, Dierk (2010). Network regulation and system change: Beyond Changes in the Incentive formula. IRIN Working paper. Öko-Institut Freiburg.
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Bauknecht, Dierk (2010). Incentive Regulation and Network Innovations, EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2011/02/IRIN Working paper. Öko-Institut Freiburg.
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Bauknecht, Dierk & Koch, Matthias (2010). Netzinnovationen und Netzregulierung im Dilemma zwischen Kosteneffizienz und Investitionsbedarf. Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen 12/2010.
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Work package 4: Adaptation of the legal framework

Güneysu, Sindy, Vetter, Miriam & Wieser, Matthias (2011). Intelligenter Rechtsrahmen für intelligente Netze (Smart Grids), Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt (DVBl), S. 870-875.

Wieser, Matthias (2011) Energiespeicher als zentrale Elemente eines intelligenten Energieversorgungsnetzes - Rechtliche Einordnung, Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht, S. 240 ff.
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Wieser, Matthias (2011). Entflechtung als Störfaktor im intelligenten Elektrizitätsverteilernetz? Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, S. 176-183.
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Presentations

Locational Distribution Network Pricing in Germany, presentation by Christine Brandstätt at the IEEE PES General Meeting, IEEE Power and Energy Society, Juli 28, 2011 in Detroit.

Regulation, efficiency and the incentive dilemma with smart grid investments, presentation by Christine Müller in the session "Innovation and Regulation in Network Industries IV: Deregulation and industrial organization" at the SASE 23rd Annual Conference", "Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism: Actors, Institutions, Processes", SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics), June 24, 2011 in Madrid.

Advancing regulation with respect to Smart Grids: A revision of international best practices, presentation by Christine Müller in the session "Innovation and Regulation in Network Industries III: International Comparative Analysis" at the SASE 23rd Annual Conference", "Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism: Actors, Institutions, Processes", SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) am 24. Juni 2011 in Madrid.

Locational Signals to Reduce Network Investments in Smart Distribution Grids: What Works and What Not? , presentation by Nele Friedrichsen on June 20, 2011 at the 34th IAEE International Conference "Institutions, Efficiency and Evolving Energy Technologies", June 19 - 23, 2011, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

Governing "smart grids" - the case for an ISO, presentation by Nele Friedrichsen on May 27, 2011 at the 14th Economics of Infrastructures Conference, "Entrepreneurship and Regulation in Infrastructures", May 26 - 27, 2011, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands.

Anreizregulierung und Innovation, presentation by Dierk Bauknecht on February 17, 2011 at the 7. Internationalen Energiewirtschaftstagung, "Energieversorgung 2011: Märkte um des Marktes Willen?", February 16 - 18, 2011, Technical University Vienna, Austria (slides in German).

Innovative Regulation for Intelligent Networks, presentation by Gert Brunekreeft on January 14, 2011 at the workshop on current challenges in regulation of energy and telecommunication markets („Aktuelle Fragen zur Regulierung von Energie- und Telekommunikationsmärkten“) organized by the Research Institute for Regulatory Economics, University of Econimics and Business, Wien

Intelligente Anreizregulierung, presentation by Gert Brunekreeft on December 1, 2010 GAT 2010 in Stuttgart (slides in German).

IRIN Session at CRNI, November 19, 2010, Brussels

Innovative Regulation for Intelligent Networks, presentation by Gert Brunekreeft October 14, 2010 at Thüga meeting for regulatory management, Munich (Slides in German).

Further project related publications

Güneysu, Sind & Wieser, Matthias (2011). Smarte Preise für smarte Netze - Evolution oder Revolution? Zeitschrift für Neues Energierecht, S. 417-422.

Güneysu, Sindy (forthcoming 2011). Smart Grids und die Anforderungen des Einspeisemanagements, forthcoming in: Recht der Energiewirtschaft.

Müller, Christine, Growitsch, Christian & Wissner, Matthias (2011). Regulierung, Effizienz und das Anreizdilemma bei Investitionen in intelligente Netze. Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft.
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Brunekreeft, Gert (2011). Die ARegV und der erhöhte Investitionsbedarf in Stromverteilnetze: der Vorschlag einer Neuberechnung des generellen X-Faktors sowie die Einführung eines Investitionsbonus. Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen 10/2011.
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Brandstätt, Christine, Brunekreeft, Gert & Friedrichsen, Nele (2010). Innovative Regulierung für intelligente Netze. DVGW energie|wasser-praxis 12/2010 - DVWG-Jahresrevue
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Workshops and final conference

For a list of past IRIN workshops please click here: Workshops; conference participants can download the presentations of the final conference here (password protected).