The Smart Grid – A saucerful of secrets?

Wissner, Matthias

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.01.042

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“…This is generally referred to as energy management, and involves ICT for remote-control, i.e., smart grid technology [43]. Energy management can simply include the remote-control of appliances in individual households; moreover it can involve peer-to-peer supply of electricity, as six of the projects explicitly stated.…”

Section: More Efficient Use Of Grid Infrastructure and Involvement Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimenting with Law and Governance for Decentralized Electricity Systems: Adjusting Regulation to Reality?

Lammers

Diestelmeier

2017

Sustainability

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Moving towards a low-carbon society calls not only for technological innovation, but also for new modes of governance. However, the current legal framework of the electricity sector, and the modes of governance that it establishes, impede innovation in the sector. To overcome this obstacle, in 2015 the Dutch government adopted a Crown decree for experiments with decentralized renewable electricity generation (Experimentation Decree) with the aim to generate insights on how to adjust the legal framework. The question remains whether regulation is being adopted to real-life settings, i.e., which lessons can be learned from experimentally acquired results regarding new modes of governance for decentralized electricity systems? To answer this question we apply an interdisciplinary approach: we investigate which modes of governance are established in the Experimentation Decree (legal research) and which ones are implemented in nine projects (governance research). Under the Decree, associations have to carry out all tasks in the electricity supply chain and can engage in collective generation, peer-to-peer supply and system operation. Other modes of governance, new actors for emerging activities and consumer involvement are limited. We conclude that the Experimentation Decree is too restricted regarding new modes of governance for a decentralized electricity system in real-life settings.

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Section: More Efficient Use Of Grid Infrastructure and Involvement Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimenting with Law and Governance for Decentralized Electricity Systems: Adjusting Regulation to Reality?

Lammers

Diestelmeier

2017

Sustainability

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“…Compared with the traditional centralized energy supply system, the distributed energy generations are easy for renewable energy using and can avoid the loss in energy delivery as well. However, as the integration of distributed energy generation become major concerns, one problem occurred that the conventional energy supply model, the unidirectional top-down grid could hardly be multipurpose to it [3]. It can only support the energy flow from the energy station to static users.…”

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A Model for Regional Energy Utilization by Offline Heat Transport System and Distributed Energy Systems—Case Study in a Smart Community, Japan

Fan¹,

Gao²,

Wang³

2013

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Under the Kyoto Protocol, Japan was supposed to reduce six percent of the green house gas (GHG) emission in 2012. However, until the year 2010, the statistics suggested that the GHG emission increased 4.2%. What is more challenge is, after Fukushima crisis, without the nuclear energy, Japan may produce about 15 percent more GHG emissions than 1990 in this fiscal year. It still has to struggle to meet the target set by Kyoto Protocol. The demonstration area of "smart community" suggests Japanese exploration for new low carbon strategies. The study proposed a demand side response energy system, a dynamic tree-like hierarchical model for smart community. The model not only conveyed the concept of smart grid, but also built up a smart heat energy supply chain by offline heat transport system. Further, this model promoted a collaborative energy utilization mode between the industrial sector and the civil sector. In addition, the research chose the smart community in Kitakyushu as case study and executed the model. The simulation and the analysis of the model not only evaluate the environmental effect of different technologies but also suggest that the smart community in Japan has the potential but not easy to achieve the target, cut down 50% of the CO 2 emission.

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“…Although the meaning of smart grids can differ both within and between countries, certain aspects reoccur in many of the descriptions. In general terms, a smart grid can be understood as a digitalized electricity grid, meaning that the current electric grid becomes "smart" as it is interlaced with ICTs that add intelligence to the "dumb" grid (Nyborg & Røpke, 2013;Verbong et al, 2013;Wissner, 2011). In this sense, the smart grid relates to the current electricity grid as a smart phone relates to a traditional phone: both are ICT-enhanced versions of their predecessors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Previous research has shown that information communication technologies (ICTs) are expected to add intelligence to the grid and thus transform the "dumb" grid into a "smart" version (Nyborg & Røpke, 2013;Verbong et al, 2013;Wissner, 2011).…”

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“…In other words, their objective seems to be to translate the smart grid as a "partially existing object" (Schick & Winthereik, 2013:83) into a concrete and tangible form, and reduce the extent to which they appear as a catchphrase with "a lot of secrets" (Wissner, 2011(Wissner, :2509. In this thesis, I do not regard the making of smart grids as the mere implementation of a concept or an idea, nor as the successful execution of new technology.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Assembling the Smart Grid: On the Mobilization of Imaginaries, Users and Materialities in a Swedish Demonstration Project

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The Smart Grid – A saucerful of secrets?

Cited by 199 publications

References 14 publications

Experimenting with Law and Governance for Decentralized Electricity Systems: Adjusting Regulation to Reality?

Experimenting with Law and Governance for Decentralized Electricity Systems: Adjusting Regulation to Reality?

A Model for Regional Energy Utilization by Offline Heat Transport System and Distributed Energy Systems—Case Study in a Smart Community, Japan

Assembling the Smart Grid: On the Mobilization of Imaginaries, Users and Materialities in a Swedish Demonstration Project

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