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This is the author's version of a work that was published in the following source:Salah, F.; Flath, C. M.; Schuller, A.; Weinhardt, C. (2017).Morphological analysis of energy services: Paving the way to quality differentiation in the power sector .Energy policy, 106, 614-624. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.024 Please note: Copyright is owned by the author(s) and / or the publisher. The commercial use of this copy is not allowed. AbstractThe activation of the still predominantly passive demand side is necessary to further guarantee a stable power system in the short term and ensure capacity adequacy in the long run.A system with a high share of generators with nearly no marginal costs requires new services that facilitate transmitting the right economic signals to the system stakeholders. To this end we refine the notion of energy services and propose a framework to systematically design quality differentiated energy services for consumers. This approach facilitates a value-based economic assessment of energy services that deviates from the marginal-cost-paradigm. We further illustrate pricing options for these new energy service products and outline infrastructural needs and additional use case-specific product properties. Moreover, we discuss how the morphological approach can be formalised using a mathematical programming formulation and introduce a complexity measure that facilitates assessing potential adoption obstacles for end consumers. Additionally, we illustrate the practical applicability of these findings by using a prototypical implementation of a decision support system. To foster differentiated energy services, we recommend a more lenient regulatory regime lowering the barriers for new market entrants.

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