The analysis covers all of the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) projects that deployed advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), direct load control programs, time-based rate programs, and consumer information and control technologies, such as in-home displays, web portals, and programmable communicating thermostats to affect the timing and magnitude of the consumption of electricity by customers.
The key analysis question concerned how, and to what extent, these devices and programs resulted in reductions and/or shifts in peak demand and reductions in overall levels of electricity consumption? Analysis objectives included:
- Evaluating how smart meters, time-based rates, information and education offering such as
web-based portals, and customer devices such as programmable controllable thermostats,
in-home displays, and direct load control devices:
- Reduced the level peak demand
- Shifted peak demand to off-peak periods;
- Resulted in lower levels of overall electricity consumption.
- Quantifying how changes in electricity usage patterns and pricing affected customer electricity bills, fuel mixes for electricity generation, and power plant emissions.
Program Reports
- Evaluating Electric Vehicle Charging Impacts and Customer Charging Behaviors - Experiences from Six Smart Grid Investment Grant Projects - December 2014
- Municipal Utilities' Investment In Smart grid Technologies Improves Services and Lowers Costs - October 2014
- Automated Demand Response Benefits California Utilities and Commercial & Industrial Customers - September 2014
- Customer Participation in the Smart Grid - Lessons Learned - September 2014
- Demand Reductions from the Application of Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Pricing Programs, and Customer-Based Systems - Initial Results - December 2012
Projects
The location, information, and data for each smart grid project are provided in this section.Click for Projects
Publications
These reports include analysis, impacts, lessons learned, best practices, analytical tools, and case studies that were supported by the Recovery Act Smart Grid Programs.Click for Publications