Energy Prosumers as Key Actors in the “Energiewende”
The IÖW-Prosumer-Model
For considerations of the increasing amount of prosumers, a detailed analysis of this player from various angles is necessary. The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) assists political, social and economic stakeholders in evaluating and approaching the prosumer to make use of the resulting chances.
The services are in detail:
- The IÖW profitably contributes its model and expansions to cooperative research projects to analyze and support the contribution of the transformation actor “prosumer” to the “Energiewende”.
- The IÖW develops a new understanding of prosumers and their role in the energy system from a viewpoint of political stakeholders and policy makers.
- The IÖW works with its expert knowledge on the integration of electricity and heating market especially in the case of prosumers and uses this to elaborate the resulting chances.
- In addition, the IÖW Energy Prosumer Model as a tool offers stakeholders like grid companies or operators of virtual power plants the opportunity to prepare for the prosumer as a market player and to develop new specific business models.