Report: Assessing the Smart Grid Opportunity

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New report: Assessing the Smart Grid Opportunity

Smart grids will transform the electricity grid, enabling utilities to better deal with the supply and demand issues of the future and helping companies and countries meet the environmental challenges they face. Smart grids will revolutionise not just the utilities’ power infrastructure, but also their business models, the value chain, and the way people and businesses understand and manage their energy usage.

Activity in the smart-grid sector is heating up, stimulated by public and private investment in new technologies. Governments are committing billions of dollars to smart-grid projects to accelerate the sector’s development, and many utilities are rolling out smart meters to lay the foundations for their future smart grids.

The enormous growth potential of the smart-grid sector is attracting a large number of established players and start-ups, and the value chain is crowded. There are many competing technologies, and efforts towards standardisation and interoperability are still ongoing.

Assessing the Smart-Grid Opportunity examines the trends and dynamics of the emerging smart-grid sector. It includes global forecasts of smart-grid capex for the period 2010 to 2030, and identifies the key opportunities for smart-grid investors and technology suppliers. An Excel annex of forecast data is provided.

Authored by Catherine Viola, Simon Sherrington and James Moore, and edited by Danny Dicks, this 95-page Innovation Observatory report provides insights into the transformation of the electricity grid to the smart grid.

Why buy this report?

Assessing the Smart-Grid Opportunity answers your key questions:

  • What are smart grids, and why are they needed?
  • What progress are utilities making towards the smart grid, and which are the main areas of activity?
  • When will smart grids be adopted around the world?
  • What are the drivers and barriers affecting the migration to smart grids?
  • What technologies are being developed and deployed, and how is standardisation progressing?
  • Who are the key players in the emerging smart-grid value chain?
  • How much will the smart-grid sector be worth to suppliers in the coming years, and which will be the biggest growth areas?
  • What are the most compelling opportunities for investors and suppliers?
  • Where should technology suppliers be investing their sales and marketing effort?

Who should buy this report?

  • Utility companies: Understand the key technology issues affecting smart-grid deployment, and find out which technology companies are leading the market.
  • Governments and regulators: Learn what other governments are doing to stimulate smart grid development.
  • Telecom operators: Find out why public telecom networks will be important for the smart grid, and understand the size of the opportunity for communications system vendors and service providers.
  • Software/IT providers: Learn how utilities’ software/IT systems needs are changing as they approach the smart grid, and find out the size of the software/IT systems market opportunity.
  • Investors: Identify the most important growth areas in the smart-grid sector and understand the competitive landscape.

Forecasts

Assessing the Smart-Grid Opportunity provides global forecasts for the smart-grid sector for the period 2010 to 2030, in an Excel annex as well as in charts in the report. Data series include:

  • Total global smart-grid capex, split by region and by segment:
  • Smart meters
  • Communications and IT systems
  • Other (including distribution and substation automation, and HANs)

Table of Contents

0 Executive summary

1 The smart grid revolution
1.1 Why the smart grid?
1.2 What is a smart grid?
1.2.1 Smart meters
1.2.2 Communications
1.2.3 Grid management
1.2.4 Demand response
1.2.5 Energy storage
1.2.6 Security
1.2.7 The smart home
1.3 Key issues

2 A roadmap for smart grid evolution
2.1 The utility’s smart grid journey
2.2 From smart metering to smart grid
2.2.1 Austin Energy’s Smart Grid 1.0, US
2.2.2 Enel’s Telegestore project, Italy
2.2.3 London Hydro Smart Meter Consortium Project, Canada
2.2.4 Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity, US

3 The role of government and regulation
3.1 North America
3.1.1 Canada
3.1.2 US
3.2 Europe
3.3 Asia-Pacific
3.3.1 Australia
3.3.2 China
3.3.3 India
3.3.4 Japan
3.3.5 New Zealand
3.3.6 Singapore
3.3.7 South Korea
3.4 Latin America
3.5 Middle East and Africa

4 Market evolution: Pioneers, Followers and others
4.1 Pioneers
4.2 Followers
4.3 Leapfroggers
4.4 Wait-and-Seers
4.5 Tail-enders

5 A crowded value chain: movers and shakers
5.1 Advanced metering
5.1.1 Key issues
5.1.2 Major players
5.2 Communications
5.2.1 NANs
5.2.2 HANs
5.2.3 Key issues
5.2.4 Major players
5.3 AMI software
5.3.1 Key issues
5.3.2 Major players
5.4 Grid management
5.4.1 Key issues
5.4.2 Major players
5.5 Meter data management
5.5.1 Key issues
5.5.2 Major players
5.6 Billing and charging
5.6.1 Key issues
5.6.2 Major players
5.7 Demand response
5.7.1 Key issues
5.7.2 Major players
5.8 Home energy management
5.8.1 Key issues
5.8.2 Major players
5.9 Energy storage
5.9.1 Key issues
5.9.2 Major players
5.10 Security
5.10.1 Key issues
5.10.2 Major players

6 Market forecasts

7 Smart grid opportunities: what, when and where

7.1 Technology market opportunities
7.1.1 Smart meters
7.1.2 IT control systems
7.1.3 HANs
7.1.4 Communications
7.1.5 Appliances
7.2 Other opportunities

List of Figures

Figure 1.1: Simplified overview of the smart grid
Figure 1.2: Impact of key factors on the development of the smart grid sector (illustrative)
Figure 2.1: The utility’s smart grid journey
Figure 3.1: Inter-play of government/regulation and smart grid adoption (illustrative)
Figure 3.2: Distribution of US smart grid stimulus funding by category
Figure 3.3: Distribution of US smart grid demonstration project funding
Figure 4.1: Timeline for smart grid adoption
Figure 5.1: Overview of smart grid communications
Figure 6.1: Global spend on new utility smart grid infrastructure 2010 to 2030
Figure 6.2: Cumulative global spend on new utility smart grid infrastructure 2010 to 2030
Figure 6.3: The changing regional distribution of utility smart grid spend on new infrastructure 2010 to 2015
Figure 6.4: Regional utility spend on new smart grid infrastructure 2010 to 2015
Figure 6.5: Global spend on new utility smart grid infrastructure, by infrastructure type 2010 to 2030
Figure 6.6: Cumulative global spend on new utility smart grid infrastructure, by infrastructure type 2010 to 2030 Figure 6.7: Global deployments of smart meters, 2010 to 2030

List of Tables

Table 1.1: Smart grid technologies
Table 1.2: Factors influencing the development of the smart grid sector
Table 2.1: Selected smart grid trials and deployments
Table 3.1: Regulatory approach to smart grid sector in selected countries
Table 3.2: Smart metering policy and implementation in selected EU countries
Table 4.1: Characteristics of Pioneer markets
Table 4.2: Characteristics of Follower markets
Table 4.3: Characteristics of Leapfrogger markets
Table 4.4: Characteristics of Wait-and-See markets
Table 4.5: Characteristics of Tail-ender markets
Table 5.1: Smart meter vendors
Table 5.3: Technology options for NAN communications in the smart grid
Table 5.4: Selected communications technology vendors
Table 5.5: AMI software vendors
Table 5.8: Grid management systems vendors
Table 5.9: MDM systems vendors
Table 5.10: Billing and charging systems vendors
Table 5.11: Demand-response product and service vendors
Table 5.12: Home energy management system vendors
Table 5.6: Comparison of energy-storage technologies
Table 5.7: Selected energy-storage product vendors
Table 5.13: Selected smart grid security vendors

Assessing the Smart Grid Opportunity is priced at £1500 (plus VAT if you are in the UK, plus £10 postage and packing) for a licence for up to five users. The report will be delivered by email as a .pdf file and a hardcopy will be posted to you.





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