1Executive Summary
- Grid reliability improvement including outage management, capacity management, and load management.
- Improved efficiencies in electric utility operations and mobile workforce management.
- Power generation efficiency improvements including reduction of transmission losses and reduction of spinning reserves.
- Integration of renewable energy assets including wind power and solar photovoltaics, both at the utility scale and on a distributed generation basis.
- Enablement of variable electricity pricing structures based on peak and off-peak periods of demand.
- Support for plug-in electric vehicles.
- Improvements in customers’ ability to monitor and control energy consumption.
- Reduction of carbon emissions from electricity generation and transmission.