Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. List of Contributing Authors V
3. Foreword by Professor Andris Piebalgs, Former EU Commissioner for Energy XI
4. Foreword by Dr. Peter Körte, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Strategy Officer at Siemens AG XV
5. Preface of the Editors XIX
6. Contents XXV
7. Abbreviations XXXI
8. Frequently Used Metric Prefixes and Physical Quantities XLV
9. 1 History and Current Challenges of Electrical Power Supply Systems 1
10. 2 General Technical Aspects of the Electrical Power System: A Case Study of the German Power System in Transition 37
11. 3 Power Sector Transformation: An Indian Perspective 53
12. 4 Major Non-technical Questions of Today’s Energy Supply: Between Energy Policy and Regulation 95
13. 5 Scenarios for the Energy System 111
14. 6 How Europe Regulates the Internal Energy Market 127
15. 7 Requirements for the Reliability of Energy System Planning 137
16. 8 Currents of Change: Electrification for a Greener Future 151
17. 9 Understanding the Levelized Cost of Energy 167
18. 10 Influence of CO₂ Targets on Energy Planning: Optimal Energy Supply from a Climate Perspective 185
19. 11 Energy Planning With a Special Focus on Hard-To-Abate Sectors and Decarbonization 203
20. 12 Energy Storage Technologies in Support of the Energy Transition and Climate Neutrality 235
21. 13 Electrical Supply Infrastructure Under Transformation 249
22. 14 Innovation (Not Only) in the Grid Sector: Market and Regulation Also Require Reinvention 275
23. 15 Challenges of Today’s Energy Distribution 303
24. 16 Resilience: Considering Disruptive Events in the Energy Planning of Buildings and Neighborhoods 335
25. 17 Siemens Princeton Resilient Campus: Defining the Future of Energy with a Sustainable and Reliable Microgrid 351
26. 18 Introduction to Energy Trading and the Role of Energy Exchanges 361
27. 19 The Role of Power Exchanges (PX) in the Energy Transition: Between Cross-Border and Local Trading 375
28. 20 Energy Markets, Grids and Flexibility: A Future Market Design for a Decarbonized Energy System 395
29. 21 Local Trading Within Energy Communities 419
30. 22 Verification Methods for Renewable Electricity: Guarantees of Origin, PPAs, and Renewable Fuels of Non-biological Origin 435
31. 23 The Unique German Smart Metering Approach in Contrast to International Strategies 453
32. 24 Real-Time as a Natural System Boundary 473
33. 25 Internet of Things (IoT) and Sensor Technology in Electrical Energy Supply Systems 495
34. 26 The Perfect Storm: Where the Energy Transition Meets the Digital Transformation 509
35. 27 The Dark Side of Digitalization 529
36. 28 Artificial Intelligence and Data Efficiency 543
37. 29 Aspects of Data Protection and Security in Smart Electronical Systems out of “European Perspective” 565
38. 30 Actively Shaping the Digital Transformation Process with Systemic Organizational Development 581
39. 31 New IT for the Digital Energy of the Future 609
40. 32 Connecting and Digitalizing the Energy Sector with a Dynamic IT Strategy 629
41. 33 Information Security and Digitalization at Distribution System Operators 649
42. 34 Digital Efficiency – a Powerful Tool! 671
43. 35 Asset Management in the Energy Transition: Requirements and Technologies 695
44. 36 Power Shortage Situation 715
45. 37 Blackout: The European Electricity Supply System in Transition 733
46. 38 Everyday Life Without Electricity in the Household Customer Sector 781
47. 39 Technical Requirements and Implications of Functioning Sector Coupling 791
48. 40 Transition from Planning to Implementation of District Projects with Sector Coupling 819
49. 41 Green Hydrogen Potentials for the Power Sector in Germany 831
50. 42 Electricity is Easy, Fuels are Hard: Lessons from the Maritime Industry 843
51. 43 Project example “pebbles” 867
52. 44 New Digital Technologies Find Their Way into the Grid Sector 889
53. 45 Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG), and Digitalization in the Commercial Real Estate Industry 909
54. 46 Scenarios for Training and Continuing Education 923
55. 47 Electricity Market and Electricity System Transformation: North American Perspective 943
56. Index 953