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
- Excellence in Consumer Engagement (Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative assessment)
- Voices of Experience (U.S. Department of Energy whitepaper)
Data Privacy, Access, and Cybersecurity
- California Public Utilities Commission Decision 14-05-016
- NIST Interagency Report 7628, Volume 1
- NIST Interagency Report 7628, Volume 2
- Cybersecurity for State Regulators
- Smart Meter Texas customer usage data portal
Interoperability Guidelines
- Gridwise® Architecture Council Interoperability Maturity Model
- NIST Interoperability Framework 2.0 (Smart Grid Interoperability Panel)
Performance Evaluations (comprehensive, independent)
- SmartGridCity™ Demonstration Project Evaluation Summary (Xcel Energy)
- Duke Energy Ohio Smart Grid Audit and Assessment (Ohio Public Utilities Commission)
- Southern California Edison Smart Meter Deployment Evaluation (California PUC Office of Ratepayer Advocate)
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
- Illinois Public Act 097-1606 (pages 80–105)
- The Economics of Ofgem’s (United Kingdom) RIIO Model (Jenkins)
- Reforming the Energy Vision (New York State Public Service Commission Staff Whitepaper, Case 14-M-0101)
- National Regulatory Research Institute White Paper
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
- Regulatory Issues and Questions (DEFG whitepaper)
- Electric Power Research Institute Review of Salt River Project’s Prepay Program
- National Consumer Law Center whitepaper
Rate Case Timing Challenge to Customer Benefit Maximization
- Oklahoma Corporation Commission Order 576595 (page 18, O&M reduction rider credit)
- Ohio Public Utilities Commission Stipulation in Case 10-2326-GE-RDR (page 5, “Netting of Benefits against Costs”)
Throughput Incentive Challenge to Customer Benefit Maximization
Time-Varying Rates
- Survey of Experiments involving Dynamic Pricing of Electricity (Faruqui and Palmer)
Utility Operations and Organizational Competencies
- Best Practices in Change Management (Prosci)
- Best Practices in Product Innovation (Cooper)
- Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Project Management Institute)
- Smart Grid Maturity Model (Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University)