Download or read book Investing In Smart Grids written by Nick Hanna and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference guide provides a detailed perspective on the investing opportunities in smart grid technologies and services, as well as an indication of the direction of trends in the sector. Significant attention is also given to the companies operating within the sector.

Download or read book Investing in the Smart Grid written by Peter I. Osorio and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smart Grid Hype and Reality written by Paul Alvarez and published by Wired Group Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ENDORSEMENTS ." . . the most thorough discussion on Smart Grid currently available." -- Calvin Timmerman, Assistant Executive Director, Maryland Public Service Commission. " . . . a much needed contribution to the smart grid body of knowledge." - Jesse Berst, Founding Editor, Smart Grid News " . . . an excellent explanation for non-technical readers of the new functionalities of modern grids." good reference source for a variety of stakeholders" -- Eric Ackerman, Director Alternative Regulation, Edison Electric Institute. " . . . a balanced perspective that will serve all levels of smart grid experience, from novice to veteran." -- Dan Johnson, Chief, Planning and Market Analysis, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. " . . . a must read for consumer advocates and students of engineering, law, policy, urban planning, and economics." - Stacia Harper, Director Regulatory Affairs, Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy " . . . a must read for anyone who cares about energy!" -- Patty Durand, Executive Director, Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative SUMMARY Utilities around the world are making or planning massive investments to bring distribution grids into the information age. Simultaneously, customers and communities are poised to place increasing demands on distribution grids and utilities in the face of mounting technical, weather, and cybersecurity challenges. "Smart Grid Hype and Reality" asks provocative questions about massive grid investments in light of the demands and challenges, and presents definitive research on smart grid capabilities, costs, benefits, drivers, and limiters in typical and ideal case scenarios. It is designed to help utilities, regulators, customers, and other stakeholders understand available technologies and the industry systems - utility, customer, and regulatory/governance - that ultimately determine the value delivered by distribution grids and utilities. Leaders (community, regulatory, utility) can use this information to anticipate the type of grids and utilities needed to meet society's future needs, and develop the technical, organizational, market, and compensation plans most likely to help them realize their visions. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Paul Alvarez is the President of the Wired Group, a consultancy helping clients unleash the latent value in distribution utility businesses. His perspectives have been formed by 15 years in the industry as both utility insider and consultant to industry regulators, associations, and suppliers. He has led comprehensive, unbiased evaluations of large smart grid deployments, including Boulder, Colorado for Xcel Energy and Cincinnati, Ohio for that state's Public Utilities Commission. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado's Global Energy Management Program and Michigan State University's Institute for Public Utilities. He holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and a master's degree in Management from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.

Download or read book Practical Guidance for Defining a Smart Grid Modernization Strategy written by Marcelino Madrigal and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart grids are for everyone but require the vision and investment plans for grid modernization. This document provides some practical elements on how to develop a smart grid vision and investment plan with a focus on the distribution side and also briefly discusses finance and regulatory issues.

Download or read book Smart Grids for Smart Cities Volume 1 written by O. V. Gnana Swathika and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SMART GRIDS for SMART CITIES Written and edited by a team of experts in the field, this first volume in a two-volume set focuses on an interdisciplinary perspective on the financial, environmental, and other benefits of smart grid technologies and solutions for smart cities. What makes a regular electric grid a “smart” grid? It comes down to digital technologies that enable two-way communication between a utility and its customers, as opposed to the traditional electric grid, where power flows in one direction. Based on statistics and available research, smart grids globally attract the largest investment venues in smart cities. Smart grids and city buildings that are connected in smart cities contribute to significant financial savings and improve the economy. The smart grid has many components, including controls, computers, automation, and new technologies and equipment working together. These technologies cooperate with the electrical grid to respond digitally to our quickly changing electric demand. The investment in smart grid technology also has certain challenges. The interconnected feature of smart grids is valuable, but it tremendously increases their susceptibility to threats. It is crucial to secure smart grids wherein many technologies are employed to increase real-time situational awareness and the ability to support renewables, as well as system automation to increase the reliability, efficiency, and safety of the electric grid. This exciting new volume covers all of these technologies, including the basic concepts and the problems and solutions involved with the practical applications in the real world. Whether for the veteran engineer or scientist, the student, or a manager or other technician working in the field, this volume is a must-have for any library.

Download or read book Smart Grids from a Global Perspective written by Anne Beaulieu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a cross-disciplinary approach to smart grids, offering an invaluable basis for understanding their complexity and potential, and for discussing their technical, legal, economic, societal, psychological and security aspects. Smart grids are a complex phenomenon involving new, active roles for consumers and prosumers, novel social, political and cultural practices, advanced ICT, new markets, security of supply issues, the informational turn in energy, valuation of assets and investments, technological innovation and (de)regulation. Furthermore, smart grids offer new interfaces, in turn creating hybrid fields: with the increasing use of electric vehicles and electric transportation, smart grids represent the crossroads of energy and mobility. While the aim is to achieve more sustainable production, transportation and use of energy, the importance of smart grids actually has less to do with electricity, heat or gas, and far more with transforming the infrastructure needed to deliver energy, as well as the roles of its owners, operators and users. The immediate goal is to contribute positively to a sustainable world society. The chapters are revised and expanded texts based upon lectures delivered at the Groningen Energy Summer School 2014. Questions for further discussion at the end of each chapter highlight the key themes that emerge. The book offers an indispensable resource for researchers, professionals and companies in the power supply industry, and for students seeking to broaden and deepen their understanding of smart grids.

Download or read book Energy Investments Business Model of Smart Grid and Sustainability written by Pratibha Verma and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Indian power sector is transforming from old conventional system to sustainable and energy efficient smart system. New and smart projects require huge capital expenditure over a period of time. Consequently, the regulators must ensure that risk is to be least for investors and rational return on investment is ensured. Smart grid technologies may prove that power utilities can be part of low carbon emission in future. Huge investment will be required for smart gird projects and cost benefit analysis of smart grid Business Models is to be done very carefully for short term and long term objectives. Also, Indian government is planning to roll out huge pollution spreading diesel and petrol vehicles and replacing them by Electric vehicles by 2030, so smart grid projects are to be completed on or before such stipulated deadline. There is no fixed business model for smart grid and wide learning for Energy investments business models are to be explored. As it is clear that Government and utilities are suffering of money crunch and they are not able to have latest technologies in a single move. New innovative business model is to be analyzed which need less share of stakeholders and more involvement of technology partners.

Download or read book A Smarter Greener Grid written by Kevin B. Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pressing need for a smarter and greener grid is obvious, but how this goal should be achieved is much less clear. This book clearly defines the environmental promise of the smart grid and describes the policies necessary for fully achieving the environmental benefits of the digital energy revolution. The United States' electrical grid is an antique. It was built to serve a 20th-century economy and designed in an era when the negative environmental impacts of electricity production were poorly understood. It must be upgraded and modernized. The proposed solution is a "smart grid"—a network of new digital technologies, equipment, and controls that can respond quickly to the public's changing energy needs by facilitating two-way communication between the utility and consumers. This book explains the environmental benefit of a smart grid, examines case studies of existing smart grids, and identifies the legal and regulatory policy hurdles that must be overcome to fully realize the smart grid's benefits. Based on six diverse organizations' experience as "early adopters" in the digital energy revolution, the authors explore how a smart electric grid offers real promise for supercharging energy efficiency, democratizing demand response, electrifying transportation, preparing for ubiquitous distributed clean energy technologies, and automating the distribution system. Against the backdrop of climate change and continuing economic uncertainty, setting a path for environmental improvement and upgrading our electric grid with new digital technologies and associated smart policies is more critical than ever before.

Download or read book The Adoption of New Smart Grid Technologies written by Christopher Guo and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RAND Corporation researchers review the current technical, regulatory, and economic context of the electricity market and theoretical benefits of developing a smart grid; discuss some entrepreneurial opportunities associated with smart-grid data; examine empirical evidence related to smart-grid adoption and implementation; and offer policy suggestions for overcoming identified barriers.

Download or read book Do Smart Grids Boost Investments in Domestic PV Plants Evidence from the Italian Electricity Market written by Marina Bertolini and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large-scale development of distributed generation power plants has given rise to new critical problems for the design and management of energy systems and electric grids. It is commonly agreed that contingent problems affecting local grids (e.g. inefficiency, congestion rents, power outages, etc.) may be solved by implementing smarter electric grids. Smart grids give producers and consumers, the opportunity to be active in the market and decide their optimal production/consumption patterns strategically. This paper provides a theoretical framework modeling prosumers' decision to invest in photovoltaic power plants, assuming that they are integrated in Smart Grids. To capture the value of managerial flexibility, a real option approach is implemented. The model was calibrated and tested with data from the Italian energy market. Our findings show that the possibility of selling energy via the Smart Grid increases investment values. The connection to Smart Grids increases managerial flexibility: prosumers can optimally exercise the option to decide the prosumption quota and switch from prosumption to production. The opportunity to sell energy in the market encourages prosumers to invest in a larger plant compared with that needed for self-consumption, and there is a positive relation between optimal size and (optimal) investment timing.

Download or read book Infrastructure Financing In Asia written by Bambang Susantono and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First, the book documents the evolution of Asia's infrastructure over the past half-century and reviews existing literature on the role of infrastructure investment in supporting growth and social development. It highlights the positive impact of mass transit investments on land and property values, and the possibility of taxing the increase in values to finance these investments. It then examines Asia's current practices and new solutions that can help meet the infrastructure gap. It discusses the role of institutions, how innovation can foster energy infrastructure investments, and the role of bond markets in infrastructure investments. The book explores ASEAN+3 efforts in developing local currency bond markets to provide long-term local financing for infrastructure investment while providing financial resilience. It also examines the use of green bonds to finance sustainable growth in Asia.

Download or read book Investing in Photovoltaics written by Marina Bertolini and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Impact of Recovery ACT Investments in the Smart Grid written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of Energy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (DOE OE) is developing a better understanding of the Smart Grid vendor ecosystem and marketplace, and is evaluating the impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds on this marketplace. DOE OE has identified and classified the core Smart Grid vendors, assessed the overall market size and networks of vendors in the Smart Grid domains, and assessed the economic impacts of ARRA investments on these different markets. The key objective of this study is to understand the flow of funds through the Smart Grid projects and the associated vendor ecosystem that benefit from ARRA Smart Grid funds and to gain a better understanding of the associated economic impacts of the Smart Grid investments on the broader economy.

Download or read book The Advanced Smart Grid Edge Power Driving Sustainability Second Edition written by Andres Carvallo and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing emphasis on practical “how-to” guidance, this cutting-edge resource provides a first-hand, insider’s perspective on the advent and evolution of smart grids in the 21st century. This book presents engineers, researchers, and students with the building blocks that comprise basic smart grids, including power plant, transmission substation, distribution, and meter automation. Moreover, this forward-looking volume explores the next step of this technology’s evolution. It provides a detailed explanation of how an advanced smart grid incorporates demand response with smart appliances and management mechanisms for distributed generation, energy storage, and electric vehicles. This updated second edition focuses on the disruptive impact of DER. This new edition also includes a glossary with well over 100 acronyms and terms, acknowledging the tremendous challenge for a student of smart energy and smart grid to grasp this complex industry.

Download or read book Get Smart on the Smart Grid written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smart Energy Grid Engineering written by Hossam Gabbar and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Energy Grid Engineering provides in-depth detail on the various important engineering challenges of smart energy grid design and operation by focusing on advanced methods and practices for designing different components and their integration within the grid. Governments around the world are investing heavily in smart energy grids to ensure optimum energy use and supply, enable better planning for outage responses and recovery, and facilitate the integration of heterogeneous technologies such as renewable energy systems, electrical vehicle networks, and smart homes around the grid. By looking at case studies and best practices that illustrate how to implement smart energy grid infrastructures and analyze the technical details involved in tackling emerging challenges, this valuable reference considers the important engineering aspects of design and implementation, energy generation, utilization and energy conservation, intelligent control and monitoring data analysis security, and asset integrity. Includes detailed support to integrate systems for smart grid infrastructures Features global case studies outlining design components and their integration within the grid Provides examples and best practices from industry that will assist in the migration to smart grids

Download or read book The Emerging Smart Grid written by Global Environment Fund and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: