3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
Financing
Develop alternatives to FiTs for accelerating investments in DER. This will include
public support for scaling the concept of energy cooperatives, crowdfunding platforms,
and other sharing models. Innovations in performance contracting and third-party
financing models should also be supported through public funding initiatives (i.e.,
incentives). New financing models should also be supported through public/private
partnership, such as those that enable the development and integration of DER (e.g.,
distributed energy storage, microgrids).
Develop and implement an action plan for financing Luxembourg’s SusTech sector.
Analogous to Luxembourg’s FinTech sector, fostering Luxembourg leadership in in
SusTech would aid in the transition from the current fossil-fuel based economy to an
economy powered by sustainable energy. It would also result in job growth for both
vocational and knowledge workers. Attaining leadership in this area will require
increased R&D expenditures in the public and private sectors, as well as the creation of
a more favorable environment for entrepreneurship. The action plan should include a
charter for establishing a public/private partnership to ensure adequate funding is made
available and secured over time.
Innovation Proposals
Technical
Develop the energy superhighway. The energy superhighway is a crucial element of the
larger Energy Internet. The importance of interoperability and coordination with entities
and infrastructure, such as smart cities, smart buildings, DER, and electric
transportation, cannot be understated. This proposal seeks to increase transactional
linkages among transmission operators, distribution operators, energy suppliers, third
parties, and all of their associated systems. Additional elements of this proposal include:
o Develop a scalable network of DER technologies that can be monitored,
controlled, and dispatched as a virtual power plant. Software control
development is greatly needed to support this integration and dynamic interplay
between DER technologies. Current examples can be found in California, where
distributed energy storage technologies are being aggregated and deployed in an
interconnected fashion, enabling the reduction of peak power demand on the
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