Global Contact Special: Smart Grid for the Real World
Special edition 2011-2012
Global Contact is KEMA’s worldwide quarterly magazine that is distributed among 12.000 of KEMA’s clients and relations. Global Contact is a broad platform. It includes news from around KEMA as well as articles providing insight into today’s critical energy and industrial trends and topics, and the divers projects KEMA and her clients are working on.
This issue features:
Our smart grid vision
Smart grid and the energy transition - Thijs Aarten talks about fitting smarter grids into the bigger picture.
A definingmoment: Understanding what a smart grid is means understanding what a smart grid does. Pier Nabuurs discussed four highlyrelated categories of smart grid function.
The industry speaks
Charles Popple, chairman of Smart Grid Australia: “Customer engagement is fundamental”
Hans Vijlbrief of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation: “We can fulfill a pioneering role”
André Pepitone da Nóbrega, director of ANEEL in Brazil: “A gigantic universe waiting to be explored”
A regional profile: Smart grid in the Middle East
Glenn Steiger, general manager of Glendale Water & Power in the U.S.: “Don’t underestimate the importance of IT”
Smart grid in practice
Resolving smart grid risks at scale - KEMA and Duke Energy have collaborated to create the Smart Gird Interoperability Lab (SGIL).
PowerMatching City: A living lab demonstration - The initial results of the field test in the Netherlands show that the system was a success.
Cities of the Future - Cemig prepares for a smart grid pilot project in Brazil.
Smart EnergyCollective: Largescale implementation - Thirty leading companies based in the Netherlands, under the lead of KEMA, have taken the initiative to implement smart grid on a large scale.
Managing realtime data, securely - Boeing Energy is developing smart grid technologies for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Demand management and the active consumer - European project, ADDRESS, searches for answers by putting the right amount of intelligence in the right places.
Energisa: On the road to a smart grid - Brazil’s Energisa has a thirst for knowledge on how smart grid technologies could impact business.
Smart grid for a sustainable neighborhood - The municipality of Meppel has the ambition to supply the new neighborhood solely with locally generated sustainable energy
Smart grid and business
The consumer connection – The power behind the meter If utilities can’t deliver on expectations, the relationships with their customers become strained.
Protecting the enterprise: Cyber security beyond AMI - In the age of a smarter grid, the system of control and communication is becoming more complicated and more vulnerable.
Smart grid beyond the electric utility - New technologies also hold great promise for increasing the reliability and sustainability of water and gas utility delivery and use.
Laboratory testing: Not just pass or fail - Smart meter manufacturers face the challenge of convincing customers that it works properly and meets all industry standards.
Achieving the promise of smart grid through business transformation - The smart grid may be the most disruptive catalyst within the utility industry in a long time.
New smart grid companies entering the arena - The pace of change and innovation reflects a growing ambition to make our energy system more sustainable, reliable and affordable.
Smart grid technology
Smarter testing for tomorrow’s smart grid - KEMA’s FlexPowerGrid Lab is dedicated to testing smart grid components at real distribution voltages and power levels.
Integrating electric vehicles: SaxMobility and the lowvoltage grid - Funding to eight regions in Germany will support electric mobility developments.
Smart diagnostics in smart grids - Monitoring and controlling the current flows and voltages in an intelligent way is just as important as decentralized power generation and energy storage.
Competency in data exchange - Smart meter technology adds value in this bidirectional energy supply chain.
Energy storage performance testing for the smart grid frontier - KEMA is offering expanded energy storage performance testing (ESPT) solutions at its new laboratory in the U.S.
Smart metering: Laboratories offer security prior to implementation - To help operators, KEMA has developed a customized smart meter test tool.
Smart substations – intelligent nodes - The local power distribution system(s) might be quite different from what we see today.