Barriers identified regarding Scalability and Replicability of Smart Grid Projects

Goal of this paper is to assess the scalability and replicability of smart grid projects, focusing on the identification of limitations and barriers faced by smart gird project. For this purpose, factors have been identified that influence and condition a project’s scalability and replicability through a review of the state of the art and analysis of smart grid demonstration project. The factors are of technical, economic, and regulatory and social acceptance nature, and they describe requirements for scalability and replicability. Data was collected from on-going European smart grid demonstration project which allowed quantifying the status quo with respect to the scalability and replicability, i.e., to what extent projects take into account these factors. The obtain results allowed the identification of barriers, limitations regarding the scalability and replicability of smart grid projects. In particular, the absence of standards, the physical limits of the existing infrastructure, the absence of cost-benefit analyses and the neglect of varying macroeconomic factors, stakeholder involvement and from the dependency of projects on regional or national regulatory frameworks and market designs.

Jaar van publicatie:2015