NDLI: The challenge with building a business case for smart grids

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bouffard, F.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom (Bouffard, F.)
Abstract	The “Smart grid” appears to be synonymous with the end of an era of seemingly stagnant technological evolution in the field of electricity generation, transmission, distribution and utilization. The imperatives of pollution control and climate change, as well as the need to secure energy supplies are external drivers working for the end of this stagnation. Information and communication technologies, backed by solution vendors often entering the utility field, are providing the necessary technological and commercial impetus. It is, nonetheless, difficult not to avoid the key questions: Can society as a whole gain from a smarter grid? If so, in what sort of timescales? And are there solid business cases for the smart grid? For whom? The smart grid is again (just like liberalization 10–15 years ago) something happening from the top down. Consumers have legitimate rights to be skeptical about the whole concept. The rolling of smart grid investment programmes—currently rhyming with smart metering for the most part—will invariably increase the bill for the consumer, while it is nowhere certain that he or she will be able to reap any tangible benefits. This paper outlines some of the key questions relating to the potential costs and benefits of smart grid investment proposals as they are tackled by the members of the IEEE Power & Energy Society Power System Economics Subcommittee. In addition to costs and benefits, we address their allocation as well as some of the utility regulation challenges set forth by smart grids.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	3
File Size	146088
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424465491
ISSN	19449925
e-ISBN	9781424465514
e-ISBN	9781424483570
DOI	10.1109/PES.2010.5589906
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-07-25
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Optimization utility regulation Added value allocation business case consumer cost-benefit analysis externality incentive power system economics smart grid
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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