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U.S. Smart Grid: Market Layers/Technologies/Players,
18 Demonstration Projects and Future Outlook

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    Published: October 28, 2009
    Total Page: 124 pages


The rebuilding of the U.S. electric power grid is a magnificent plan. This plan utilizes information technology in addition to the utility-owned infrastructure carrying electricity from power plants to homes and businesses, and involves the bidirectional flow of energy and information about energy usage for achieving power supply balance and reduction of CO2.

Therefore, within this infrastructure are layers of equipment for managing the transmission and distribution (T&D) networks and different local networks for delivering remote measurement and control communications. The development of a next-generation electric power grid enhanced with intelligent communications and IT systems is one of the major energy technology challenges. The smart grid (SG) perspective becomes the following flow (Picture: US Department of Energy).


The Obama administration's stimulus bill designates $19 billion in direct spending and loan guarantees over 10 years (2009-19) for electric power transmission and distribution. Of that total, there is $4.5 billion specially allocated for SG programs. The Recovery Act gives 50% upfront matching grants for SG technology deployment and sets a hard deadline of September 2010 for SG funding to be fully distributed. Once the grants are doled out, then - quite significantly - recipients of SG funding have to spend the money within two years or else they can't use it any longer.

In other words, we want to rouse attention to the fact that the plan establishes a time frame of two years for the basic platform of the SG buildout.

After explaining the perspective of the SG, we follow the money and outline in Chapter 2 how U.S. government money is being used and distributed.
U.S. Legislation and Planning & Funding Recovery Act (ARRA) Funding Framework for Electric Power Grid
U.S. Legislation (Energy Bills) Impacting Smart Grid Industry
Recovery Act Awards for Smart Grid Demonstration Projects
Segment, Awarded Company, Amount ($), Developed Technology)
Funds Applied For


Next step is to explain the status of SG demonstration projects completed now or progressing, with descriptions of 18 demonstrations.
18 Demonstration Projects, Technologies & Operations Purpose
Period (project length)
Targeted number of houses or buildings
Targeted power generation (including and/or excluding renewable sources)
Results, conclusions, other issues (if demonstration ended)


The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a key role and is working to hurry standardization in order to move the smart grid one step, two pawns ahead. Completed and forthcoming actions on the standards front are described in Chapter 4.

Standards: Now & Future Big Picture & Scenario
Identified Smart Grid Application Priorities and Scenarios
Standards-Setting Working Groups and Roles
Smart Meter Standard
Priorities for Standards-Setting Action in 2010
Current List of 31 "High Relevance" Smart Grid Standards Identified


U.S. government funding demands a reward with immediate effect. Certain high-growth, market-leading SG segments have already received attention in terms of investment and planning. Market predictions for these key equipment and products-related segments are analyzed in Chapter 5.
High Growth Market Segment Forecast AMI Smart Meters Market Forecast, 2009-2015
Demand Response and Distribution Automation Market Forecast, 2009-2015
Energy Storage Systems Market Forecast
Emerging Area: Grid-Connected DG and Distributed Energy Storage
Smart Grid Timeline (Directions), 2010-12, 2013-2015, Beyond 2016


It is necessary to include a trend analysis of state-level activities that support smart grid deployment because energy efficiency, demand management and smart-meter-related laws are set by each state. Since SG progress is affected by state-level strategies, we explain state activity in Chapter 7.
States Supporting the High-Growth Areas Top-Five States Supporting Smart Grid Activities
Scheduled Smart Meters Deployments, by State, by 2015
State-by-State Policies Affecting Smart Grid Initiatives


There is also central information on key companies developing the SG business, including service businesses of the near future, and new players entering the market. In Chapter 6 and Chapter 8, we depict (in table format) the activity and the strategy of the key players and competitors, according to product segment and common research items.
78 Market Players Activities and Strategies Contact
Technology Development
Deployment (Products, Services)
Strategic Alliance
Market Perception or Researcher Analysis


Player: (mention it by layer / segment with the report)
Comverge, Inc., Echelon Corporation, Elster Integrated Solutions LLC, General Electric (GE), Itron North America, Landis+Gyr North America, Sensus Metering Systems, Ambient Corporation, Arcadian Networks, Current Group, LLC, Eka Systems, Inc., Silver Spring Networks, SmartSynch, Inc., Trilliant Inc., Group, North America, Cooper Power S GE T&D, MicroPlanet Technology Corp., SEL , A123Systems, Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., Beacon Power Corp., BPL Global, Ltd., GreenSmith Energy Management Systems LLC, GridPoint, Inc., Ice Energy, Inc., Infotility, Inc., S&C Electric Company, Viridity Energy, Ventyx, Comverge, CPower, mEnerNOC, Ziphany LLC, Sequentric Energy Systems LLC, Aclara Software, Ecologic Analytics, LLC, Grid Net, Inc, eMeter Corp., OSIsoft, Inc., Agilewaves, Inc., Control4, Ember Corporation, Energate, Inc., EnergyHub, GainSpan Corporation, Google/Power Meter, Greenbox Technology, Inc., Intel Corp., Johnson Controls, Inc., Onzo, Ltd., OPOWER (formerly Positive Energy), Outsmart Power Systems LLC, Tendril Networks, Inc., AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Communications, American Electric Power (AEP), BC Hydro, CenterPoint Energy (CPE), Consolidated Edison of New York (ConEd), Consumers Energy, Duke Energy, Midwest ISO, New York ISO, National Grid U.S., Progress Energy, Inc., Sempra Energy / San Diego Gas & Electric, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Vermont Electric Power Co., Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, IBM , Microsoft Corp., Oracle, SAP, Texas Instruments


This useful report covers the whole and the details of smart grid activity and gives a future perspective.

Fuji-Keizai USA Inc.



Table of Contents


Executive Summary

1. Smart Grid Structure
  1.1 Total Picture
      Figure 1-1: Conventional Power Grid: One-Way Transmission on Networks Owned by Utilities
      Figure 1-2: Smart Grid: Bidirectional (2-Way) Integrated Communication, Automation and
                  Energy Application Infrastructure with Multiple Stakeholders
  1.2 Total Market Picture
    1.2.1 Market Layers
    1.2.2 Market Players, by Segment
      Table 1-1: End-to-End Market Players and Their Products, Technologies and Services
                  (Market Segment, Application, Companies, Products or Technology or Service)
      Table 1-2: Definitions of Smart Grid Market Segments/Technologies

2. U.S. Government Planning & Funding
  2.1 U.S. Government Planning (Big Picture)
      Table 2-1: Recovery Act (ARRA) Funding Framework for Electric Power Grid
                  (Energy Segment, Amount($), Comment)
      Table 2-2: U.S. Legislation (Energy Bills) Impacting Smart Grid Industry
                  (Legislation, Significance/Provisions)
    2.1.1 Public Infrastructure
      Table 2-3. U.S. Smart Grid Regulatory Structure
    2.1.2 Targeted Development Technologies
  2.2 Funding Status and Applications
    2.2.1 Recovery Act Awards for Smart Grid Demonstration Projects
            (Segment, Awarded Company, Amount ($), Developed Technology)
    2.2.2 Funds Applied For

3. Demonstration Projects, Technologies & Operations
  3.1 Projects Completed or Advancing to Next Stage of Deployment
    3.1.1 GridWise Demonstration Project (also known as Washington State Project)
    3.1.2 Arizona Salt River Project (SRP)
    3.1.3 Austin (TX) Energy: "Pecan Street" Project
    3.1.4 Boulder, Colorado: Xcel Energy SmartGridCity
    3.1.5 District of Columbia: "PowerCentsDC" Project
    3.1.6 Energy Smart Miami
    3.1.7 New York Con Edison DER Integration Project with Smart Solar Pilot
    3.1.8 New Mexico "Green Grid" Project
    3.1.9 Maui Smart Grid Integration Project
    3.1.10 Southern California Edison (SCE) SmartConnect
    3.1.11 Outside of U.S.: Amsterdam Project
  3.2 Other Advanced SG Demonstration Projects - Snapshots
    3.2.1 San Diego Gas & Electric Beach Cities Microgrid Project
    3.2.2 AEP (TX) gridSMART
    3.2.3 CenterPoint Energy Houston
    3.2.4 City of Fort Collins (CO): Fort ZED (Zero Energy District)
    3.2.5 Illinois Institute of Technology Smart Microgrid Prototype
    3.2.6 Chevron Energy Solutions/CERTS Solar, Fuel Cell and Storage Microgrid
    3.2.7 Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)

4. Standards: Now & Future
  4.1 NIST: Big Picture & Scenario
      Table 4-1: Four FERC-Identified Smart Grid Application Priorities and Scenarios
  4.2 NIST Activity
      Table 4-2: NIST Standards-Setting Working Groups and Roles
  4.3 Smart Meter Standard
  4.4 Current Standard and Future Directions
      Table 4-2: Priorities for Standards-Setting Action in 2010
      Table 4-3: Current List of 31 "High Relevance" Smart Grid Standards Identified by NIST

5. Market Trends: 2009-2015
  5.1 Total Market Forecast: Big Picture
  5.2 Market Forecast by Segments: High-Growth Segments (AMI, Power Automation)
    5.2.1 AMI Smart Meters
    5.2.2 AMI-enabled Demand Response and Distribution Automation
    5.2.3 Grid-Connected DG and Distributed Energy Storage (Emerging)
      Table 5-1: Energy Storage System (ESS) Technologies and Candidate Applications
      Table 5-2: Energy Storage Systems Market Forecast
  5.3. Smart Grid Timeline (Directions)

6. High-Growth Areas in the Near Future: Activity & Strategy
  Common Research Item:
   - Contact: Location, Tel#, URL
   - Technology Development
   - Deployment (Products, Services)
   - Strategic Alliance(s)
   - Market Perception or Researcher Analysis

  6.1 AMI: Advanced Metering & Networking/Communication Products (14 companies)
    6.1.1 Comverge, Inc.
    6.1.2 Echelon Corporation
    6.1.3 Elster Integrated Solutions LLC
    6.1.4 General Electric (GE)
    6.1.5 Itron North America
    6.1.6 Landis+Gyr North America
    6.1.7 Sensus Metering Systems
    6.1.8 Ambient Corporation
    6.1.9 Arcadian Networks
    6.1.10 Current Group, LLC
    6.1.11 Eka Systems, Inc.
    6.1.12 Silver Spring Networks
    6.1.13 SmartSynch, Inc.
    6.1.14 Trilliant Inc.
  6.2 T&D Automation / Grid Optimization (5 Companies)
    6.2.1 ABB Group, North America
    6.2.2 Cooper Power Systems
    6.2.3 GE T&D
    6.2.4 MicroPlanet Technology Corp.
    6.2.5 SEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories)
  6.3 Grid-Connected Distributed Generation (Renewable or Nonrenewable)
      & Distributed Energy Storage (11 companies)
    6.3.1 A123Systems
    6.3.2 Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.
    6.3.3 Beacon Power Corp.
    6.3.4 BPL Global, Ltd.
    6.3.5 GreenSmith Energy Management Systems LLC
    6.3.6 GridPoint, Inc.
    6.3.7 Ice Energy, Inc.
    6.3.8 Infotility, Inc.
    6.3.9 S&C Electric Company
    6.3.10 Viridity Energy
    6.3.11 Ventyx

7. States Supporting the High-Growth Areas
  7.1 Top-Five States Supporting Smart Grid Activities
  7.2 Scheduled Smart Meters Deployments, by State, by 2015 (in descending order)
  7-3. State-by-State Policies Affecting Smart Grid Initiatives

8. Other Market Participants: Activities and Strategies
  Common Research Item:
   - Contact: Location, Tel#, URL
   - Technology Development
   - Deployment (Products, Services)
   - Strategic Alliance(s)
   - Market Perception or Researcher Analysis

  8.1 Demand Response Products & Services (5 companies)
    8.1.1 Comverge
    8.1.2 CPower
    8.1.3 EnerNOC
    8.1.4 Ziphany LLC
    8.1.5 Sequentric Energy Systems LLC
    8.2 Other Software, Solutions & Applications (5 companies)
    8.2.1 Aclara Software
    8.2.2. Ecologic Analytics, LLC
    8.2.3 Grid Net, Inc.
    8.2.4 eMeter Corp.
    8.2.5 OSIsoft, Inc.
  8.3 Home Area Networks (HAN), Building Networking & Energy Control
        Management Systems (14 companies)
    8.3.1 Agilewaves, Inc.
    8.3.2 Control4
    8.3.3 Ember Corporation
    8.3.4 Energate, Inc.
    8.3.5 EnergyHub
    8.3.6 GainSpan Corporation
    8.3.7 Google/Power Meter
    8.3.8 Greenbox Technology, Inc.
    8.3.9 Intel Corp.
    8.3.10 Johnson Controls, Inc.
    8.3.11 Onzo, Ltd.
    8.3.12 OPOWER (formerly Positive Energy)
    8.3.13 Outsmart Power Systems LLC
    8.3.14 Tendril Networks, Inc.
  8.4 Communication Companies (3 companies)
    8.4.1 AT&T
    8.4.2 Sprint Nextel
    8.4.3 Verizon Communications
  8.5 Energy Utility Companies (13 companies)
    8.5.1 American Electric Power (AEP)
    8.5.2 BC Hydro
    8.5.3 CenterPoint Energy (CPE)
    8.5.4 Consolidated Edison of New York (ConEd)
    8.5.5 Consumers Energy
    8.5.6 Duke Energy
    8.5.7 Midwest ISO
    8.5.8 New York ISO
    8.5.9 National Grid U.S.
    8.5.10 Progress Energy, Inc.
    8.5.11 Sempra Energy / San Diego Gas & Electric
    8.5.12 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
    8.5.13 Vermont Electric Power Co.
  8.6 Other Major Players (8 non-incumbents)
    8.6.1 Cisco Systems
    8.6.2 Hewlett-Packard
    8.6.3 Honeywell
    8.6.4 IBM
    8.6.5 Microsoft Corp.
    8.6.6 Oracle
    8.6.7 SAP
    8.6.8 Texas Instruments

  

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