Smart Grid Open

To integrate fluctuating, renewable electricity into the future grid, a number of measures must be developed to secure a stable and reliable electricity supply for the Danish society. Besides a massive rollout of RE generating facilities, part of the solution to the RE challenge, is the deployment of Smart Grid. This technology enables control of a wide range of grid connected consumers such as electrical vehicles, heat pumps and/or household appliances. This roll-out is needed to support a smooth integration of fluctuating renewable energy resources like solar and wind power. One of the main current hurdles blocking for mass role out of such intelligent consumers is the lack of intelligent grid to consumer communication. Stronger involvement in standardization work is needed together with Danish smart grid reference architecture and a coordinated effort to secure a national testing and approval of ‘Smart Grid Ready’ products. The “Smart Grid Open” project will secure the realization of guidelines, methods and testing protocols enabling conformance testing of communication interfaces for Smart Grid Ready products. Reference testing systems, incl. documentation, will be designed and implemented. Smart Grid stakeholders, product manufactures and system integrators will be involved.