Benefits and Threat of Business Models in the German Electrical Systems

This paper presents several key aspects and results as part of the research project “Evaluation of novel Business Models (BMs) in the electrical supply” financed by the German Ministry of Economy and Energy (BMWi). This paper focuses on presenting some of the results from the technical and economical evaluation of the German electrical infrastructure when multiple BMs are implemented by multiple actors of the whole energy system. The motivation of this paper is to demonstrate the contribution of implementing some BMs to the sustainability and controllability of the energy distribution system by assessing some technical indicators such as changes in peak load and availability of load shifting potential in Germany and determining the effects of these BMs.