Customer energy management platform in the Smart Grid

Abstract

The Smart Grid has been defined as integrated network to converge an existing power grid with an information and communication infrastructure. It has caused the dynamic change and new business contexts in the utility infrastructure, especially in a demand side. The conventional energy customers have extended their role as the energy prosumer who can generate distributed electricity with renewable energy resources and make profits from trading the energy to Power Exchange Market. It can be realized comfortably with a customer energy management system, which offers some functionalities dedicated to the Smart Grid services. The success of the Smart Grid depends on the interoperability to make flexible power infrastructure, efficient controlling system, network integration, and business models to motivate energy prosumers. KT would like to suggest Open Service Platform to commence a new business domain in the customer side and offer new business opportunities in Smart Grid. In this paper, the customer energy management system will be presented and KT's Open Service platform in Smart Grid will be proposed.