Benefit Analysis of Smart Grid Projects: White Paper 2014-2016

Smart grids are rolling out internationally, with the United States (U.S.) nearing completion of a significant USD4-plus-billion federal program funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA-2009). The emergence of smart grids is widespread across developed countries. Multiple approaches to analyzing the benefits of smart grids have emerged. The goals of this white paper are to review these approaches and analyze examples of each to highlight their differences, advantages, and disadvantages. This work was conducted under the auspices of a joint U.S.-China research effort, the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) Implementation Plan, Smart Grid. We present comparative benefits assessments (BAs) of smart grid demonstrations in the U.S. and China along with a BA of a pilot project in Europe. In the U.S., we assess projects at two sites: (1) the University of California, Irvine campus (UCI), which consists of two distinct demonstrations: Southern California Edison's (SCE) Irvine Smart Grid Demonstration Project (ISGD) and the UCI campus itself; and (2) the Navy Yard (TNY) area in Philadelphia, which has been repurposed as a mixed commercial-industrial, and possibly residential, development. In China, we cover several smart-grid aspects of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city (TEC) and the Shenzhen Bay Technology and Ecology City (B-TEC). In Europe, we look at a BA of a pilot smart grid project in the Malagrotta area west of Rome, Italy, contributed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The Irvine sub-project BAs use the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) Smart Grid Computational Tool (SGCT), which is built on methods developed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The TEC sub-project BAs apply Smart Grid Multi-Criteria Analysis (SG-MCA) developed by the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with fuzzy logic. The B-TEC and TNY sub-project BAs are evaluated using new approaches developed by those project teams. JRC has adopted an approach similar to EPRI's but tailored to the Malagrotta distribution grid.

MARNAY Chris;  LIU Liping;  YU Jiancheng;  ZHANG Dong;  MAUZY Josh;  SHAFFER Brendan;  DONG Xuzhu;  AGATE Will;  VITIELLO Silvia;  REN Guoqi;  YAO Cheng;  HONG Xiao;  WANG Xudong;  SONG Jia;  WANG Tianhao;  WU Lei;  ZHAO Jing;  KARALI Nihan;  GANG He;  CLAMPITT Kevin;  YINGEN Robert;  ZHU Han;  ZHAO Li;  SAMUELSEN Scott;  SMITH David;  KUMAR Jayant;  JIAO Fengshun;  ZOU Dazhong;  ZHANG Jinsong;  XIAO Ming;  TANG Sheng;  LI Zhikeng;  LI Xiaozhen;  FLEGO Gianluca;  YAN Tyler;  ZHU Aimee Limingming;  LIU Angela Xiu; 

2017-01-16

Energy Technologies Area

JRC100629

https://eetd.lbl.gov/publications/white-paper-on-benefit-analysis-of-sm,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC100629,