Abstract
Considering the international trend of increasing share of renewable energy and the grid-resilience risks posed by climate change, the development of the distributed energy resources-based electricity system (DER-based system) has become one of the key sustainable development agendas. Though many articles stress renewable energy source-based systems (RES-based systems), the majority of them haven’t provided an exact classification of such systems. Therefore, this study has further integrated the DER and RES-based system as a new categorization of energy systems. Furthermore, with this new categorization, this paper contributes to investigate the change in complementarities, elements, and the transition pathways of this system, which has been less frequently mentioned in previous studies. To fill in this gap, this study has employed the methodology of systematic literature review (SLR). As the results of the SLR, this study has organized the possible elements, complementarities, bottlenecks, value for consumers, and their relationships by the mapping of them, and, more importantly, the author has also aware of several findings in changing factors. For instance, the transition of the end-users from traditional consumers to proactive prosumers could be a significant changing factor happened in the development path of the electrical system. Since the prosumers have been given the “competence” to affect the focal DER-related technologies and even the whole DER-based systems, their status changed from the conventional electricity consumers to active organizational complementarities, which could be considered a significant “role shifting”.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Distributed Energy Resources, Sociotechnical complementarities, Electricity system, Prosumers
