Reports

Learn more about the Smart Grid by reading these reports. The following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

 

This report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation discusses the trends, emerging issues, and potential concerns for electricity delivery in North America from 2009 to 2018. (October 2009)

 

This guide describes a high-level, technology-neutral framework for assessing potential benefits from and economic market potential for energy storage used for electric-utility-related applications. (February 2010)

 

This report addresses two project development phases. Phase 1 covers progress in the initial
testing of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing-based broadband over
power line system for a 69-kV transmission line. Phase 2 covers the continued development and field testing of HV-BPL systems and work performed to extend its operating range. (November 2009)

 

This report discusses how the United States' demand response potential could vary in four proposed scenarios, and provides recommendations for how to overcome the barriers to reach the full demand potential response.

 

This report articulates nine mechanisms by which the smart grid can reduce energy use and carbon impacts associated with electricity generation and delivery. (January 2010)

 

Section 1302 of Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 directs the Secretary of Energy to “… report to Congress concerning the status of smart grid deployments nationwide and any regulatory or government barriers to continued deployment.” This document satisfies this directive and represents the first installment of this report to Congress, which is to be updated biennially. (July 2009)

 

These annexes to the Smart Grid System Report cover metrics and electricity service provider interviews. (July 2009)

 

This report addresses three basic questions concerning how typical existing electrical distribution systems would be impacted by the addition of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to residential loads: (1) How many vehicles could the existing power delivery system support in the near future? (2) What time of day would the vehicles be charged? (3) Where would the vehicles be charged? (January 2010)

 

This report provides information about the state of the West Virginia electricity grid and the likely future state of that grid. (August 2009)

 

This report assesses the status of the electric power grid in West Virginia to define the potential to implement Smart Grid technologies. (February 2009)

 

West Virginia Smart Grid Implementation Plan (WV SGIP) Project: APERC Report on Customer Complaints to WV PSC About Electric Power Service (PDF 472 KB)

This report provides data on the consumer perspective of the electric power grid in West Virginia. (February 2009)