INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 532 I. OVERVIEW OF SMART GRID DEVELOPMENT ....................... 533 II. WHY NUSP-CONSUMER INTERACTIONS SHOULD BE REGULATED .............................................................................. 534 A. What are NUSPs and How Do They Interact with Consumers? ....................................

Load profiles generated by smart meters represent a privacy concern when analyzed by Non-Invasive Load Monitoring algorithms. Past research in preserving privacy and countering these algorithms has negated the benefits provided by smart meters. This research seeks to protect consumer privacy while maintaining the benefits of smart meters. The method proposed achieves this through the addition o...

The contributions of Distributed Energy Generation (DEG) and Distributed Energy Storage (DES) for Demand Side Management (DSM) purposes in a smart macrogrid or microgrid cannot be over-emphasised. However, standalone DEG and DES can lead to under-utilisation of energy generation by consumers and financial investments; in grid-connection mode, though, DEG and DES can offer arbitrage opportunitie...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................ 360 I. RECENT HISTORY OF SMART GRID ................................... 363 II. CONSUMER-FACING COMPONENTS AND TWO KEY CHALLENGES ......................................................................... 365 A. Physical Components of Consumer-Facing Smart Grid .... 366 B. Demand side benefits enabled b...

A major part in the efforts to increase energy efficiency is the establishment of a smart energy grid. This is supposed to optimize power distribution and facilitate the delivery of fluctuating renewable energy. For these reasons, governments in the EU and US are pressing ahead with legislation for the introduction of smart meters into every household. The precise consumption measurements taken...

A smart grid is envisioned to enable a more economic, environmental friendly, sustainable and reliable supply of energy. But significant security concerns have to be addressed for the smart grid, dangers range from threatened availability of energy, to threats of customer privacy. This work focuses on a specific part of the Smart Grid: the analysis of a smart home environment, the identificatio...

Smart home services (SHS) have been developed by related firms and have had a strong impact on consumers’ lives. This research integrates involvement antecedents, innovation diffusion factors and a technology acceptance model to develop a conceptual framework for discussing consumer attitudes and adoption behaviors toward smart home service applications. A sample of 580 respondents from differe...

electronic shopping has increased in recent years increasingly. people who use this channel as an instrument of marketing and selling of goods, understand that consumers do not only focus on timely delivery of goods. but they are also looking for new and different products. thus, the marketers and companies must understand the innovative elements that effective on consumer purchases. in the pre...

In this chapter we describe our vision for the next generation of IT services. Services will be automatically discovered, procured and integrated with the service consumer‟s technical environment. This whole process will be determined by the policies defined by the consumer and will be transparent to the consumer. We also define the new applications of Policy Manager, Service Manager, Service P...