AUSTRALIA’S ROADMAP TO SMART GRID

Smart Grid Australia launches Smart Grid Research and Development Roadmap
July 26, 2011 (Telvent – Metering.Com)

"Smart Grid Australia (SGA) has developed a Research and Development Roadmap outlining key areas of research needed to support the rollout of smart grids in Australia...The Australian government is currently investing about $100 million in a commercial scale, demonstration smart grid project under the Smart Grid, Smart City (SGSC) program, which includes research and development of smart grid technologies.

"The Roadmap identifies specific high impact research topics as…Smart metering systems and consumer engagement…Control systems for networks…Grid security measures and systems…Policy and regulatory settings."

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"To encourage research-based deployments of smart grids that drive the benefits of the technology, SGA recommends that all smart grid demonstration projects, regardless of size, should have a strong R&D component, particularly around the high impact research topics, and that research efforts investigate the needs of different Australian stakeholders…

"Further on-going research should be conducted into systems-based, independent, objective ways of assessing real progress in smart grids in the Australian electricity industry and market…"