From laissez-faire to intervention: Analysing policy narratives on interoperability standards for the smart grid in the United States

The imperative of realizing utopian visions of the smart grid puts unprecedented policy focus on standardization. Because standards are a prerequisite for deployment, the US federal government - in a departure from established hands-off practice - intervened to coordinate and accelerate standardization activities. This research uses narrative...

How should grid operators govern smart grid innovation projects? An embedded case study approach

Grid operators increasingly have to collaborate with other actors in order to realize smart grid innovations. For routine maintenance, grid operators typically acquire technologies in one-off transactions, but the innovative nature of smart grid projects may require more collaborate relationships. This paper studies how a transactional versus...

Market integration of local energy systems: Is local energy management compatible with European regulation for retail competition?

The growing penetration of distributed energy resources is opening up opportunities for local energy management (LEM) – the coordination of decentralized energy supply, storage, transport, conversion and consumption within a given geographical area. Because European electricity market liberalization concentrates competition at the wholesale...

Designing reliable and resilient smart low-voltage grids

The electric power grid is a critical infrastructure that delivers electricity from power generation sources to consumers. At this time, renewable and distributed sources of electricity as well as new technologies that introduce large loads are significantly changing load profiles in low-voltage grids. This trend calls for reassessing the...

Evaluation of changes required in the transmission system to facilitate developments of smart grids

This project is a study into the transmission network system setup of tomorrow in the Netherlands. This work was carried out at TenneT TSO and investigates the Network behavior in response to faults at various locations in the system and the influence of varying electrical generation and loads under four growth scenarios envisaged by TenneT in...