Part I. What is changing and what are the implications

1. What future for electric power sector

2. The value of an integrated grid

3. Microgrids: Finally finding their place

4. The new power on the consumer side of the meter

5. A customer-centric view of electricity service

6. The role of the utility and pricing in the transition

Part II. Innovation, policy, regulations, pricing

7. Regulation for a sustainable energy system - reconfiguring the institutions

8. Rate design of the future

9. Rates and revenues: Differential impacts of customer-sited distributed generation in vertically-integrated and competitive retail markets

10. Rehabilitating Retail Electricity Markets: Pitfalls and Opportunities

11. Assessing the Cost and Benefits of DER Integration

12. Efficiency and equity considerations in designing rates in the context of the death spiral for electric utilities

13. Modeling the impacts of disruptive technologies and pricing on peak demand

14. Intermittency - it’s the short-term that matters

15. Opportunities and challenges in coupling local renewable energy generation with EV fleets

Part III. Function and role of the utility of the future - or the future of utilities

16. Identifying value pools, building new business models, and defining strategies rooted in inherent capabilities in utilities

17. Utilities don’t simply connect, they integrate

18. Smart, renewable or decentralized: Strategic choices of European energy incumbents

19. Imagine a future where entrepreneurial, profitable utilities thrive despite disruptive technologies: German case study

20. The future of utility customers and utility customers of the future

21. Flexibility business models: new actors, new roles, new rules

22. Decentralized reliability options - market based capacity arrangements

23. Network pricing for the prosumer future: Demand-based tariffs or nodal pricing?

24. The evolution of smart grids begs disaggregated nodal pricing

25. The distributed utility: Conflicts and opportunities between the incumbent

utilities, suppliers and the emerging new entrants

26. Innovation platform enables the Internet of things