Smart grid projects in Europe: Current status, maturity and future scenarios

Çolak, İlhami; Fulli, Gianluca; Sağıroğlu, Şeref; Yeşilbudak, Mehmet; Covrig, Catalin-Felix

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.098

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“…8): (1) people who are willing to postpone the start of home appliances are also willing to use smart technologies and vice versa; (2) people who are willing to use smart technologies are also willing to turn off heating or air-conditioning for a short time and to reduce the heating temperature setting; (3) people who are willing to turn off heating or air-conditioning for a short time are also willing to reduce the heating temperature setting and vice versa.…”

Section: Potential Flexible Building Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Smart grids can facilitate flexible electricity consumption, which is crucial for a future where energy demand will have to be in phase with energy generation, due to inevitable fluctuations in the availability of renewable energy [1,2]. Buildings account for one-third of total energy consumption in most developed countries, which amounts to considerable potential for activating flexible electricity consumption.…”

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Are building users prepared for energy flexible buildings?—A large-scale survey in the Netherlands

Dane

Finck

et al. 2017

Applied Energy

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h i g h l i g h t sAwareness of smart grids is the highest among respondents aged 20-29 years old. Willingness to use smart technologies and change energy behaviour are interdependent. Potential flexible building users were found to be 11% of the respondents. Building energy flexibility might play a crucial role in demand side management for integrating intermittent renewables into smart grids. The potential of building energy flexibility depends not only on the physical characteristics of a building but also on occupant behaviour in the building. Building users will have to adopt smart technologies and to change their daily energy use behaviours or routines, if energy flexibility is to be achieved. The willingness of users to make changes will determine how much demand flexibility can be achieved in buildings and whether energy flexible buildings can be realized. This will have a considerable impact on the transition to smart grids. This study is thus to assess the perception of smart grids and energy flexible buildings by building users, and their readiness for them on a large scale. We attempted to identify the key characteristics of the ideal user of flexible buildings. A questionnaire was designed and administered as an online survey in the Netherlands. The questionnaire consisted of questions about the sociodemographic characteristics of the current users, house type, household composition, current energy use behaviour, willingness to use smart technologies, and willingness to change energy use behaviour. The survey was completed by 835 respondents, of which 785 (94%) were considered to have provided a genuine response. Our analysis showed that the concept of smart grids is an unfamiliar one, as more than 60% of the respondents had never heard of smart grids. However, unfamiliarity with smart grids increased with age, and half of the respondents aged 20-29 years old were aware of the concept. Monetary incentives were identified as the biggest motivating factor for adoption of smart grid technologies. It was also found that people would be most in favour of acquiring smart dishwashers (65% of the respondents) and refrigerator/freezers (60%). Statistical analysis shows that people who are willing to use smart technologies are also willing to change their behaviour, and can thus be categorised as potentially flexible building users. Given certain assumptions, 11% of the respondents were found to be potentially flexible building users. To encourage people to be prepared for energy flexible buildings, awareness of smart grids will have to be increased, and the adoption of smart technologies may have to be promoted by providing incentives such as financial rewards. a r t i c l e i n f o

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Section: Potential Flexible Building Usersmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Are building users prepared for energy flexible buildings?—A large-scale survey in the Netherlands

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Finck

et al. 2017

Applied Energy

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“…At European level different national and regional smart grids initiatives exists [15]. The majority of western European countries are already transitioning form Research and Development (R&D) projects to Demo and Deployment projects (D&D), demonstrating the maturity of the smart grid technologies and applications.…”

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“…The majority of western European countries are already transitioning form Research and Development (R&D) projects to Demo and Deployment projects (D&D), demonstrating the maturity of the smart grid technologies and applications. Denmark and Germany are the European leaders in R&D and D&D projects [15]. One of the biggest projects is Smartcity Málaga, with 11 companies enrolled, covering 4 km 2 , involving 11.000 domestic customers, and 1.200 industrial and service customers.…”

Section: Smart Gridsmentioning

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Lessons Learned in Building a Middleware for Smart Grids

Macarulla

Albano

Ferreira

et al. 2016

JGE

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Smart grids play an important role in the modernization and optimization of the existing electrical grid, to accomplish the current European Union Energy and Climate targets. Smart grids require distributed applications to manage the grid more efficiently. The performance of the distributed applications impacts on the communications delay time and on the timely interaction with the devices located in the users' Home Area Networks. This paper presents the results of the ENCOURAGE project related to the development of a software platform to support smart grids. The work presented in this paper assesses four different middleware configurations and analyses the results on the delay performance tests. The results show that the mean end-to-end delay is between 310 ms and 453 ms in proper conditions. In terms of operational costs, the optimal configuration enables managing houses with less than 0.25 Euros per month per house. This paper justifies the maturity of the technology to support smart grids, and the possibility to transfer the ENCOURAGE project results to the industry.

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“…State of the art and research focus SMs are electronic systems that can measure energy consumption, provide more information than a conventional meter, and can exchange data using a form of electronic communication (European Parliament, 2012). SM technology trends have been well documented (Pepermans, 2014;Sharma and Mohan Saini, 2015), and arguably represent one of the most important themes addressed in several studies dealing with smart grid development and modernization (Colak et al, 2015;European Commission, 2011;López et al, 2015). Modern SMs are equipped with two communication channels: a communication channel to the electrical system and a communication channel to customers, providing two possible connection solutions for remote reading and remote management: through the electricity grid or radio frequency.…”

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Smart metering projects: an interpretive framework for successful implementation

Cagno

Micheli

Foggia

2018

IJESM

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Purpose. We analyze a set of smart meters implementation projects and provide insights and recommendations to facilitate smart metering deployment strategies.Design/methodology/approach. Several significant projects are analyzed on different fronts: scale, technology, economics, and regulation using a common methodology to unfold patterns that constitute key components of successful smart meters diffusion.Findings. Key elements and controllable enabling patterns from Europe-wide SM implementation projects are identified together with drivers and barriers for patterns replication.Practical implications. We provide a framework considering different stakeholders that will help distribution system operators to accelerate and extend smart meters' penetration.Originality/value. Based on the Meter-ON project (supported by the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission) we put valuable information on the same basis for comparison purposes to facilitate the large-scale deployment of smart meters in Europe.

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Smart grid projects in Europe: Current status, maturity and future scenarios

Cited by 117 publications

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Are building users prepared for energy flexible buildings?—A large-scale survey in the Netherlands

Are building users prepared for energy flexible buildings?—A large-scale survey in the Netherlands

Lessons Learned in Building a Middleware for Smart Grids

Smart metering projects: an interpretive framework for successful implementation

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