The document discusses what makes smart grids smart. It defines smart grids as incorporating feedback and energy awareness, demand response programs, and using these tools to increase energy efficiency, renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and reduce wasted energy. Smart grids allow electricity customers to become "energy citizens" through various feedback tools that educate them on their energy use. This enables demand response programs where customers lower consumption during high price periods, reducing peak demand and costs. Commercial demand response programs have resulted in schools automating energy use and investing in sustainability projects. The key aspects that make smart grids smart are the communication between the grid and customers and customers' ability to respond to signals.

1. Globe Forum April 2010,
Manage Smart in Smart Grid
Part 1: What is so smart about the Smart Grid?
Jessica Strömbäck, Vaasa ETT

2. What is Smart about the Smart Grids
Globe Forum
Jessica Stromback
VaasaETT Global Energy Think Tank

3. A unique Collaborative Concept incorporating a
Global Interactive Expert Community with
Collaborative Projects

5. Presentation Content
- What is Smart about Smart Grids?
- Feedback and energy awareness
- Demand Response
- Commercial and Residential Demand Response

6. Energy efficiency = Sustainable Growth
Copenhagen Climate Conference
FEAR: CO2 Reductions = Growth Reductions
Smart Grids = Growth & CO2 Reductions

7. 6% lost in the power lines
WHY? 10-15% lost generation estimation
15-50% lost in homes and businesses
Increase wind & solar
Increase systems efficiency
Lower wasted energy

8. What is so smart about the Smart
Grids?
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9. The Glue of the Grid:
1) Communication
2) Response

10. Feedback = EDUCATION:
From the “energy consumer” to
the “energy citizen” Dr. Sarah Darby

11. Today: Electricity is not only
seen as a natural human right
- but as a limitless, cheap and
harmless natural human right
at that.

12. Types of Feedback
Source: BeAware

13. Displays
ONZO The ‘Wattcher’

14. Ambient Feedback
Source: Interactive Institute

15. Energy Savings Program Averages

16. Definition of Demand Response
•Any program which communicates with the
end consumer and either enables them or
encourages them to lower or shift energy
consumption during periods of raised energy
prices.
Tools
•Feedback, direct & indirect
•Automation
•Dynamic Pricing

17. Peak Clipping DR

19. Savings: Peak Clipping Program Averages
• Average peak reductions TOU = Time of Use
CPP = Critical Peak Clipping

20. The Social Impact of Commercial
Demand Response
• Private school NYC
• Small amount manual load shifting 100 kW
• Now:
• 300 kW automation
• 95% maintainance products bio degradble
• Buy green energy
• DR data tracks total use
• Students have goal reduce 14%
• Investing in solar panels
“Don’t know where the light switch is” School in Norway

21. The Social Impact of Commercial
Demand Response

22. What makes the Smart Grid Smart?
WE DO!
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23. THANK YOU!
Jessica Stromback
VaasaETT Global Energy Think Tank
+358 40 72 56 023
jessica.stromback@vaasaett.com