Australia Smart Grid Market Report Available through Bharatbook

July 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Australia Smart Grid Market

The report includes analyses, statistics, forecasts and trends. It provides a comprehensive insight into the progress of the developments and examines the key issues in the market and the business opportunities arriving from these new developments. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=101426&rt=Australia-Smart-Grid-Market.html )

Subjects covered include:

* Overview of the key smart grid and smart meter developments.
* The concept of smart grids, what it is, what it can do and who is involved.
* Issues in relation to network efficiency, climate change and customer benefits.
* The role of government and the role of industry.
* Overview and update on the Smart Grid/Smart City Demonstration Project.
* The activities of Smart Grid Australia in national policy and strategy developments.

Executive Summary

This will be a crunch year for smart grids. By the middle of the year the outlines of the country’s first smart grid project should become visible, and over the next three years important lessons will be learned for a national roll out. This will also stimulate others to separately, from the demonstration project, progress their own smart meter and smart grid roll outs. Several projects in Victoria will start showing the first results of this process. They took the leadership with smart meters, which made many utilities focus on the underlying infrastructure – building on this we will start seeing their versions of smart grids arriving in Australia in 2010. There will be further pressure on the government to better align energy and environmental policies as well as electricity regulations. Governments can use their influence here to encourage electricity utilities to invest in smart grids rather than just in smart meters. The $100 million Smart Grid/Smart City (NEEI) project is discussed in a separate report.

Smart Meters
While developments in Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Demand Side Management (DSM) have been taken place over many decades, the current smart meter debate originated in Victoria in 2004. This started with the utilities to modernise the meter network which would amongst other things, allow them to capture electricity usage in 30-minute intervals. This enables differential pricing by time-of-day and enables utilities to discourage certain types of ‘non-time-critical’ use during periods of high demand. Reducing peaks has a major impact on electricity generation costs – alleviating the need for new power plants and cutting down on damaging greenhouse emissions.

Based on the latest environmental challenges, the focus needs to be shifted to smart grids, and smart meters should only be considered in the broader context of the modernisation of electricity networks through the introduction of sensing, communications and information technology into the grid.

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