SMART GRID REFERENCE SOURCES
The Wired Group has reviewed hundreds of research studies, evaluation tools and guidelines, regulatory orders, legislation, and business cases in the course of its work with distribution utilities, regulators, suppliers, and other stakeholders. The links below connect to the best grid modernization resources we've come across, serving as a sort of bibliography for the Wired Group's distribution utility performance improvement services and evaluation methodology. Researchers, regulators, utilities, suppliers, and other stakeholders can simply browse through the listed topics and click on a resource to conveniently access the information and assistance they need to maximize the value of smart grid investments for customers. Reference source categories include:
| Business Case Development Guidance | Performance-based Regulation and Governance |
| Business Case Samples | Planning and Visioning |
| Customer Engagement Best Practices | Prepayment |
| Data Privacy, Access, and Cybersecurity | Rate Case Timing Challenge to Customer Benefit Maximization |
| Interoperability Guidelines | Throughput Incentive Challenge to Customer Benefit Maximization |
| Performance Evaluations (comprehensive, independent) | Time-Varying Rates |
| Performance Measurement | Utility Operations and Organizational Competencies |
Business Case Development Guidance
- California Public Utilities Commission Standard Practice Manual
- Electric Power Research Institute Methodological Approach to Estimating Benefits and Costs
- Environmental Defense Fund Framework for Evaluating Smart Grid Deployment Plans
- Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative Economic and Environmental Benefits Secondary Research
Business Case Samples
Customer Engagement Best Practices
Data Privacy, Access, and Cybersecurity
Interoperability Guidelines
- Gridwise® Architecture Council Interoperability Maturity Model
- NIST Interoperability Framework 2.0 (Smart Grid Interoperability Panel)
Performance Evaluations
Performance Measurement
- California Public Utilities Commission Decision 12-04-025 (Attachment A)
- Illinois: Commonwealth Edison 2012 Project Report (pages 19-34, "Metrics and Milestones")
- National Energy Technology Labs Performance Feedback whitepaper
- Ohio Public Utilities Commission Stipulation, Case 10-2326-GE-RDR (page 22, Attachment 2)
- Maryland: Baltimore Gas and Electric Q1 2012 Metrics Report
Performance-Based Regulation and Governance
Planning and Visioning
- Illinois Statewide Smart Grid Collaborative Report
- Kentucky Smart Grid Roadmap
- The Future of the Electric Grid (MIT Interdisciplinary Study)
- Smart Grid Roadmap for the State of New York
Prepayment
Rate Case Timing Challenge to Customer Benefit Maximization
Throughput Incentive Challenge to Customer Benefit Maximization
Time-Varying Rates
Utility Operations and Organizational Competencies
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