Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sector working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the “Electricity Currents” section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited 12 books on related topics with Elsevier.

"...present an excellent overview about the contemporary debate on possible trajectories of the electric industry…This is a complicated situation for industry executives, power business consultants and regulators. The contributions of the book should be of great value to them." --Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy"Speculation about the falling costs of storage, microgrids and other technologies adds fuel to the current interest in utilities of the future. Among the main issues covered in this book is a discussion of a rational way to address these changes and find a constructive path forward." --EE Publishers

• Part I. What is changing and what are the implications1. What future for electric power sector2. The value of an integrated grid3. Microgrids: Finally finding their place4. The new power on the consumer side of the meter5. A customer-centric view of electricity service6. The role of the utility and pricing in the transitionPart II. Innovation, policy, regulations, pricing7. Regulation for a sustainable energy system – reconfiguring the institutions8. Rate design of the future9. Rates and revenues: Differential impacts of customer-sited distributed generation in vertically-integrated and competitive retail markets10. Rehabilitating Retail Electricity Markets: Pitfalls and Opportunities11. Assessing the Cost and Benefits of DER Integration12. Efficiency and equity considerations in designing rates in the context of the death spiral for electric utilities13. Modeling the impacts of disruptive technologies and pricing on peak demand14. Intermittency – it’s the short-term that matters15. Opportunities and challenges in coupling local renewable energy generation with EV fleetsPart III. Function and role of the utility of the future – or the future of utilities16. Identifying value pools, building new business models, and defining strategies rooted in inherent capabilities in utilities17. Utilities don’t simply connect, they integrate18. Smart, renewable or decentralized: Strategic choices of European energy incumbents19. Imagine a future where entrepreneurial, profitable utilities thrive despite disruptive technologies: German case study20. The future of utility customers and utility customers of the future21. Flexibility business models: new actors, new roles, new rules22. Decentralized reliability options – market based capacity arrangements23. Network pricing for the prosumer future: Demand-based tariffs or nodal pricing?24. The evolution of smart grids begs disaggregated nodal pricing25. The distributed utility: Conflicts and opportunities between the incumbent utilities, suppliers and the emerging new entrants26. Innovation platform enables the Internet of things

Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sector working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the “Electricity Currents” section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited 12 books on related topics with Elsevier.

"...present an excellent overview about the contemporary debate on possible trajectories of the electric industry…This is a complicated situation for industry executives, power business consultants and regulators. The contributions of the book should be of great value to them." --Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy"Speculation about the falling costs of storage, microgrids and other technologies adds fuel to the current interest in utilities of the future. Among the main issues covered in this book is a discussion of a rational way to address these changes and find a constructive path forward." --EE Publishers

• Part I. What is changing and what are the implications1. What future for electric power sector2. The value of an integrated grid3. Microgrids: Finally finding their place4. The new power on the consumer side of the meter5. A customer-centric view of electricity service6. The role of the utility and pricing in the transitionPart II. Innovation, policy, regulations, pricing7. Regulation for a sustainable energy system – reconfiguring the institutions8. Rate design of the future9. Rates and revenues: Differential impacts of customer-sited distributed generation in vertically-integrated and competitive retail markets10. Rehabilitating Retail Electricity Markets: Pitfalls and Opportunities11. Assessing the Cost and Benefits of DER Integration12. Efficiency and equity considerations in designing rates in the context of the death spiral for electric utilities13. Modeling the impacts of disruptive technologies and pricing on peak demand14. Intermittency – it’s the short-term that matters15. Opportunities and challenges in coupling local renewable energy generation with EV fleetsPart III. Function and role of the utility of the future – or the future of utilities16. Identifying value pools, building new business models, and defining strategies rooted in inherent capabilities in utilities17. Utilities don’t simply connect, they integrate18. Smart, renewable or decentralized: Strategic choices of European energy incumbents19. Imagine a future where entrepreneurial, profitable utilities thrive despite disruptive technologies: German case study20. The future of utility customers and utility customers of the future21. Flexibility business models: new actors, new roles, new rules22. Decentralized reliability options – market based capacity arrangements23. Network pricing for the prosumer future: Demand-based tariffs or nodal pricing?24. The evolution of smart grids begs disaggregated nodal pricing25. The distributed utility: Conflicts and opportunities between the incumbent utilities, suppliers and the emerging new entrants26. Innovation platform enables the Internet of things