Study on Business Scheme of a Community-Level Decentralized and Self-Reliant Energy Network

Abstract

Community-level decentralized and self-reliant energy network is expected to contribute to create a sustainable community as well as its self-vitalization and energy resiliency. But implementation of this system requires consensus among variety of stakeholders and long payback period, which are major hurdles. This study proposes the following concept and methods; (1) PPP business scheme consisting of two types of actors; "community-level energy network infrastructure operating company" and "on-site energy production and service providers" (2) Proper reallocation of cost and co-benefits among stakeholders by taking advantage of opportunities of adjusting tariffs, taxes, subsidies for the purpose of equalizing each stakeholder's B/C.

System design to reduce disaster risks by installing distributed power resources

“…where C init is the initial investment cost of the introduced equipment and r is the discount rate per year, which is 3% according to a study by Kuzuki et al (2015). y is the number of elapsed operation years.…”