Business Models: Innovation Landscape Briefs

IRENA’s Innovation Landscape report highlights innovations that create the business case for new services, with ground-breaking business models enhancing power system flexibility and incentivising rapid integration of solar and wind technologies.

These business models – which can either expand consumer choices or boost the availability of renewable power – are explored in specific briefs:  

Empowering the consumer

Business models that turn consumers into active participants:

• Aggregators
• Peer-to-peer electricity trading
• Energy-as-a-service

Enabling renewable energy supply

Innovative schemes that boost the supply of renewables, whether in connected areas or off-grid:

• Community-ownership models
• Pay-as-you-go models

See the main Innovation Landscape report.

See also related briefs on innovations in Enabling Technologies, Market Design and System Operation.