Imperial College London
Professor Peter J G Pearson

Professor Peter J G Pearson

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Honorary Professor
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9332p.j.pearson Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Dr Yara Evans +44 (0)20 7594 9304

 
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Location

 

304Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Grunewald:2012:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.041,
author = {Grunewald, PH and Cockerill, TT and Contestabile, M and Pearson, PJG},
doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.041},
journal = {Energy Policy},
pages = {449--457},
title = {The socio-technical transition of distributed electricity storage into future networks—System value and stakeholder views},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.041},
year = {2012}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Whole system models for the GB electricity system suggest that distributed electricity storage has the potential to significantly reduce the system integration cost for future system scenarios. From a policy perspective, this poses the question why this value should not be realised within existing market structures. Opinion among stakeholders is divided. Some believe that storage deployment constitutes a ‘special case’ in need of policy support. Others insist that markets can provide the necessary platform to negotiate contracts, which reward storage operators for the range of services they could provide. This paper seeks to inform this debate with a process of stakeholder engagement using a perspective informed by socio-technical transition literatures.This approach allows the identification of tensions among actors in the electricity system and of possibilities for co-evolution in the deployment of storage technologies during a transition towards a low carbon electricity system. It also draws attention to policy-related challenges of technology lock-in and path dependency resulting from poor alignment of incumbent regimes with the requirements for distributed electricity storage
AU  - Grunewald,PH
AU  - Cockerill,TT
AU  - Contestabile,M
AU  - Pearson,PJG
DO  - 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.041
EP  - 457
PY  - 2012///
SN  - 0301-4215
SP  - 449
TI  - The socio-technical transition of distributed electricity storage into future networks—System value and stakeholder views
T2  - Energy Policy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.041
ER  -
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