Assessment of an enterprise energy service platform in a Smart Grid city pilot

Abstract

The emergence of the Smart Grid promises a new generation of innovative applications and services that are based on the fine-grained information acquired almost in “real-time” from the underlying infrastructure. To realize this vision, (open) platforms providing access to the smart meter data as well as potential management and value-added functionalities are needed. These will offer basic energy services that can be commonly used by application developers. We depict here our assessment from implementing and operating such a platform in a pilot that took place in Spain in 2012, and draw some lessons learned that affect their design and performance.