As a future energy trends in the development of the smart grid, energy is bound to set off a new round of construction, let us take a look at the world's leading smart grid development and experience of developed countries:
United States intelligent power grid construction experience
For upgrading aging power grid, and improve power system reliability and safety while increasing power efficiency, reduce electricity costs on the electricity side, United States at the beginning of this century put forward the concept of smart grid. To date, the United States building the smart grid from theoretical research to practical research has accumulated rich experience.
(1) United States Government's policy of providing support include overall planning, introduce laws and set up
United States Government beginning in 2003 introduced a series of Bill, transmission planning, economic planning road map macro planning, these policies for the smart grid industry provides the scientific planning and precise legal support. This includes grid 2030 plan, the roadmap of the construction of power grid 2030, the energy policy Act, the national technology roadmap, the energy independence and Security Act of 2007, the recovery and Reinvestment Act, the energy independence Security Act and the Obama administration's plans, and so on.
To advance the construction of the smart grid, United States Government is also actively exploring to establish smart grid-related institutions. Including: DOE has established a dedicated field of smart grid Research Advisory Committee (Smart Grid-Advisory Committee) to provide advice for policy formulation. DOE has also established a special action team on smart grid (Smart Grid Task Force). Its main tasks are: ensure, coordination and integration of Federal Government agencies in smart grid technologies, practices and services activities. The Panel, in the course of 2008-2020 financed through government funding to maintain efficient operation.
In directly investment and the financial subsidies policy aspects, February 2009, Obama Government established zhihou soon is was through of United States recovery and then investment method under launched 787 billion dollars of economic stimulus plans, which has 4.5 billion dollars specifically for support intelligent grid of development; apart from directly investment zhiwai, United States Government also introduced has purchased solar PV system, and electric vehicle and building energy-saving conversion of subsidies and tax reductions or exemptions, series of intelligent grid related of financial subsidies policy.
In addition, basic research has come from the United States Government's strong support. For example, the United States national renewable energy Laboratory (NREL) and Ohio's Battelle Institute in the United States Government with the support of smart grid projects to large-scale research and development.
(2) United States smart grid development
Smart grid interoperability and security 75 standards, such as the introduction of: United States Department of Commerce under the National Institute of technology (NIST), study on the smart grid interoperability and network security, and other technical standards. So far has made 75 standards, including the smart grid interoperability standards, and the renewable portfolio standards, and so on. 25 of which was established in January 2010. 25 standard include smart meters and home appliances ZigBee smart energy technology specification for bi-directional wireless communication. In addition, on September 2, 2010 has also published the Guide to network security (first edition). To date, United States National Institute of standards and technology standardization development work still continues to promote the smart grid.
Intelligent grid user side related demand response program are quickly development: United States Federal Energy Management Committee (FERC) 2008 do of on demand response (DR) and automatically measurement facilities (AMI) of investigation indicates that: senior measurement device of using rate for total meters number of 4.7% (this a digital in 2006 also does not to 1%), and currently full us has 8% user participation to has demand response program in the. With the help of various Interstate legislative policy incentives and power plants, demand response programs will continue to gain popularity. Tremendous potential of on demand response, in the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in June 2009 made by the national assessment on the potential for demand response--staff report and made June 2010 in the national action plan on demand response to achieve.
IT enterprise and high-tech companies are involved in the construction of the smart grid: intelligent power network construction project is the main force on the surface of the power companies or local authorities. However, the actual leading "intelligent" it was all over the world have many branch offices of large IT enterprises, as well as in specific areas has the core technology of high-tech enterprises. These United States enterprises or institutions without a distribution does not have a strong global business.
These IT enterprise and high-tech companies including Cisco (Cisco), Intel (Intel), Google (Google), IBM and Microsoft (Microsoft), and so on, they want from the future prospects of most business areas share a piece of the action. From the perspective of global market potential of $ baiwanyi, a smart grid can be comparable with the Internet, it is to accelerate application deployment of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in the course of the necessary infrastructure. In addition, as users to feedback to services provided by the device vendor, they may very well be the driving force for future smart grid technology market during plastic.
Smart grid-related venture capital investment continued to increase: venture capital is duly entered the field of smart grid, designed to provide automatic metering device (AMI) area, communication and network technologies to bring more and more focused technical innovation. Is now up to us $ 1 billion venture capital fund transfer to GridPoint and Silver Spring networks companies, represented the emerging key companies.
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