CEI CLC/TR 50608

This Technical Report provides an overview of the technical
contents and regulatory arrangements of some 32 of the many Smart
Grid projects that are currently in operation, or under
construction, within Europe 1). This Technical Report is intended
to provide useful information to those organisations and
individuals that are currently engaged or about to become engaged
in developing Smart Grids. It is also intended that this Technical
Report will be used to support the development of relevant
standards by presenting the key learning points from early Smart
Grid projects – it is widely accepted that the publication of
relevant standards will accelerate the development of Smart Grids.
It is recognised that this Technical Report only covers a sample of
the Smart Grid projects within Europe; it would be impractical to
attempt to include every project. It is assessed that the 32
projects shown in this Technical Report are sufficiently
representative to provide information and draw early conclusions.
Clause 2 of this Technical Report provides a brief overview of all
32 projects, Annex A contains details of the 32 projects as
supplied by the countries that participated in the drafting of this
Technical Report.

NOTE 1 In order to avoid losing potentially useful information,
the details presented in Annex A are very close to the raw data
provided by the different countries, with only minor editorial
amendments made in the drafting of this Technical Report.

One of the key objectives of this Technical Report is to
identify the learning objectives for each of the Smart Grid
projects, i.e. why is the project is being carried out and how the
success of the project in meeting these objectives will be
determined.

NOTE 2 It is intended that the learning contained in this
Technical Report, in particular the learning around what type of
standards are required to support the development of Smart Grids,
will provide useful input to the joint CEN/Cenelec/ETSI Smart Grid
Co-ordination Group (SGCG). The SGCG has been established to
support the requirements set out in the European Commission Smart
Grid Mandate M/490, March 2011.

NOTE 3 In drafting this Technical Report the working group were
made aware of a report with a similar scope to this Technical
Report that was being produced by the European Commission's Joint
Research Centre (JRC) 2). The JRC report is now published and
publically available. It is assessed that this Technical Report and
the JRC report are complementary documents; the JRC report provides
a high-level view on 220 projects that are being conducted across
Europe whereas this Technical Report provides more detailed
information on 32 projects.

This Technical Report presents the situation for the 32 projects
as they are at the time of writing; as time moves on, it might be
necessary to update this Technical Report or to produce a second
edition containing information on more recent projects and learning
from existing projects, such as those documented in this Technical
Report.