Estimating the Benefits of the GridWise Initiative: Phase I Report

[摘要] GridWise™ is a vision, a concept, and a national initiative developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and participants from the electricity industry, which seeks to link electricity suppliers and end-users via high-speed networks that provide real-time information about system capacities, demand, prices, and status. This report presents the initial results of a two-phase project designed to characterize and estimate the benefits of applying such advanced communications and information technologies to bring the aging U.S. electricity grid into the information age. The project is intended to provide a better understanding of those benefits — for electricity suppliers, end-users, and society at large — that will inform both public and private sector decisions about GridWise-related research and development (R&D) and implementation strategies.

[发布机构] RAND Corporation;RAND Corporation

[学科分类] 自然科学（综合）

[关键词] Energy and Environment;Energy Distribution;Science and Technology