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Recommendations of the SmartGrids ICT Consultation Group to the European Commission
In the near future, new applications can be easily added into home smart meters and then by integrating more advanced ICT systems
and building automation to save energy. A bioclimatic house may into the so-called energy internet. Smart grid technologies were the
provide energy savings of up to 80–90% compared with a largest opportunity found in the study and could globally reduce
conventional building. The Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus (VTT) 2.03 GtCO
2
e, worth $124.6 billion.
Technical Research Centre of Finland has launched a thee-year project
to develop a platform that makes it possible to add energy-saving
applications into one’s home as easily as putting a sticker on a door.
The information and
According to the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), the
communication technologies
implementation of smart metering they recommended would increase
supplier switch capability by a factor of 10, decrease non-technical
sector could, for instance,
losses by 50% instead of 2.5%, decrease residential consumption by
provide consumers with realtime
5% and decrease CO
2
emissions by 5% instead of 0.5%.
updates on their energy
US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory teamed up with regional consumption to stimulate
utilities and industry partners in the year-long demonstration project
behavioural changes.
(112 homeowners who participated in the Olympic Peninsula project
received new electricity meters). Power use was reduced by 15%
during key peak hours. In addition, consumers saved an average of The clustering and prioritisation of the ICT recommendations for
approximately 10% on their electricity bills. A combination of these five areas above led to six priorities for ICT investments to be
demand response enabled by smart metering and distributed leveraged (see Table 1):
generation reduced peak distribution loads by 50% for days on end.
Over the duration of the study, participants who responded to further investments in ICT studies, business cases, surveys, project
realtime prices reduced peak power use by 15%. best practices and go-to-market to use and re-use what worked
well in other countries or regions;
According to the Smart 2020 report, reducing transmission and investments in automated customer communications (smart
distribution losses in India’s power sector by 30% is possible through metering) to reach 100% smart metering penetration in Europe
better monitoring and management of electricity grids, first with by 2015 (time of use to become mandatory);
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