Luisa Buitrago, autor en Colombia Inteligente

Vibrant future for utility distribution businesses

The recent years have been tough for many distribution businesses. A combination of regulatory pressure, disruptive energy technologies, increasingly complex operations, shifting consumer dynamics and weak demand—particularly in higher-income markets—has squeezed profits and stymied earnings growth.

The rise in distributed renewables is not only impacting total electricity demand, but also requires massive investments in new connections and grid reinforcement. Traditional distribution efforts are also shifting as distributed energy resources (DER) proliferate, changing demand profiles including total demand reduction or stagnation, but without a commensurate decline in peak demand. Growing customer expectations mean distribution businesses must actively manage participation, such as in demand response, and provide network access to prosumers. Mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is poised to alter demand growth and put pressure on grid stability.

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https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/utilities/vibrant-potential-distribution-business-opportunities

https://www.accenture.com/t20181109T190517Z__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-89/Accenture-Vibrant-Potential-Distribution-POV.pdf

13 febrero, 2019

Cyber Resilience in the Electricity Ecosystem: Principles and Guidance for Boards

Cyber resilience is a challenge for all organisations, but, due to its vital role as a societal backbone, it is of particular importance for the electricity ecosystem. The power grid is an increasingly popular target for cyber threat actors: including hacktivists with the aim of causing civil unrest or state-sponsored groups performing espionage activities. Moreover, electricity organizations operate in an interconnected and interdependent environment where the consequences of a cyber attack on one can cascade to numerous others.

This report developed by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with electricity industry partners and Boston Consulting Group offers principles to help board members meet the unique challenges of managing cyber risk in the electricity ecosystem.

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https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/cyber-resilience-in-the-electricity-ecosystem-principles-and-guidance-for-boards/

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Cyber_Resilience_in_the_Electricity_Ecosystem.pdf

13 febrero, 2019

Advancing the Landscape of Clean Energy Innovation

This report identifies a shortlist of potential “breakthrough technologies” where the U.S. is already far ahead in both science and investments. These solutions have the highest potential impact on GHG emissions and also show the most promise for deployment at scale.

Breakthrough Energy commissioned this report, authored by IHS Markit and Energy Futures Initiative, because a large part of the transition to a lower carbon future will require building supportive market and policy environments. The report evaluates the range of opportunities for public and private investment in the U.S., and offers a roadmap to bringing more reliable, low-emission energy technologies to market.

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http://www.b-t.energy/reports/advancing-the-landscape/

http://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5728646/FULL-Report-IHS-Markit-EFI-Report.pdf

13 febrero, 2019

ESIF 2018 Annual Report

In 2018, research at the ESIF adapted and aligned to address the challenges that are shaping the electric grid today and into the future. From new types of partnerships, to developments in autonomous energy systems research, to an increased focus on energy security and resilience, it is hard to know everything going on at the ESIF. A great place to start is with the recently published ESIF 2018 Annual Report.

Research at the ESIF in 2018 centered on the multitude of advanced devices that are coming online and transforming our grid to one that is modern, more connected, and more complex. High-impact projects focused on new control paradigms, optimizing voltage control with advanced meter data, and integrating vehicle fleets with new grid technologies. We also launched a new, long-term partnership with Eaton Corp., setting the stage for future collaborations where we can more directly and collectively pursue mutual goals with our partners at the ESIF.

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https://www.nrel.gov/esif/esi-news-201901.html#report

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73025.pdf

7 febrero, 2019

Panorama Energético de América Latina y El Caribe 2018

Olade publica su primer “Panorama Energético de América Latina y el Caribe 2018”, un documento en el que se presenta información sobre la evolución de la matriz energética de todos los Países Miembros de la Organización.

En esta publicación se muestra un análisis comparativo de los resultados globales y regionales de diversos estudios realizados por prestigiosas instituciones reconocidas a nivel mundial. En este estudio también se realiza un estudio prospectivo regional en el que se analiza la evolución de las principales variables energéticas al año 2040.

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http://www.olade.org/noticias/olade-publica-estudio-panorama-energetico-america-latina-caribe-2018/

http://biblioteca.olade.org/opac-tmpl/Documentos/old0416b.pdf

7 febrero, 2019

Electrification with Renewables

The world has made the transition from one major form of energy to another several times – from animal power and biomass to burning coal, and then to the increasing use of oil and gas. The replacement of those fuels with renewables marks the next historic shift. Yet to ensure sustainability and global climate stability, this latest energy transformation needs to happen much faster.

The present publication offers a preview of findings from a forthcoming scoping study, “Electrification with Renewables: Driving the transformation of energy services”. This first-of-its-kind analysis was undertaken jointly by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the world’s largest utility, the State Grid Corporation of China.

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https://irena.org/publications/2019/Jan/Electrification-with-Renewables

https://irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2019/Jan/IRENA_RE-Electrification_SGCC_2019_preview.pdf

7 febrero, 2019

Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) Requirements Version 2.0

With the pace and number of distributed energy resources being added to the grid, a few utilities are beginning to implement distributed energy resource management systems to organize and control all of these technologies. But since these systems are so new, there are no standards or requirements to guide utilities who need to invest in this expensive technology. Enter the Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) Requirements – a baseline to guide utilities and vendors for the most important aspects their system should have.

This guide was created by a team of utilities, solution providers, and industry stakeholders and co-led by representatives from Southern California Edison, Duke Energy and ComEd. SEPA coordinated a collection of comments on a first version created by utility professionals to develop this more robust version.

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https://sepapower.org/resource/distributed-energy-resource-management-system-derms-requirements/

https://go.sepapower.org/l/124671/2019-01-31/6pp99s/124671/68519/DERMS_Requirements_2.0_email_20190129.pdf

7 febrero, 2019

draft OECD Recommendation on Digital Security of Critical Activities

The draft Recommendation provides guidance to governments on how to develop digital security policies for critical activities without inhibiting the benefits from digital transformation. . The draft Recommendation focuses on critical economic and social activities. It does not cover defence and national/international security. It is work in progress at the OECD and its content may be subject to modification, including as a result of this public consultation.

The draft Recommendation has been developed on the basis of an analysis of the responses to a questionnaire circulated in 2016 and 2017 to OECD delegations (“Policies for the Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure (CIIP): Ten Years Later”, see below) and with the support of an informal multistakeholder group of experts. It incorporates input from OECD Members and non-Members, representatives of business and industry, civil society and the Internet technical community, provided through official meetings and written comments.

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http://www.oecd.org/sti/ieconomy/digital-security-of-critical-activities.htm

http://www.oecd.org/sti/ieconomy/draft-digital-security-recommendation-public-consultation.pdf

7 febrero, 2019

Global risk management survey

In recent years, financial institutions have improved the capabilities of their risk management programs to manage traditional risk types such as market, credit, and liquidity risk. Managing nonfinancial risk is now assuming greater importance, both for regulators and institutions. Among the many nonfinancial risks, increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks by individuals and nation states have made cybersecurity a top concern.

Deloitte’s Global risk management survey, 11th edition is the latest edition in this ongoing survey series that assesses the industry’s risk management practices and the challenges it faces. The survey was conducted from March 2018 to July 2018 and was completed by 94 financial institutions around the world that operate in a range of financial sectors and with aggregate assets of US$29.1 trillion.

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https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/industry/financial-services/global-risk-management-survey-financial-services.html?id=us:2sm:3tw:4di4222:5awa:6di:MMDDYY:HANDLE::author&pkid=1004712

https://documents.deloitte.com/insights/GlobalRiskManagementSurvey

7 febrero, 2019

ISO/IEC TR 22678 provides policy makers with guidance on cloud computing

Many governments around the world, both national and local, are grappling with creating or updating their ICT policies to cope with the new world of cloud computing. Governments and enterprises are also looking at their own procurement policies when it comes to cloud computing.

To assist with this process, the experts participating in the ISO and IEC standards development process have produced a Technical Report (TR) aimed at those tasked with creating such policies.

Rather than a lot of technical information, the TR is written for an audience of legislators, regulators, lawyers, and others involved in the development of cloud computing policy. Prior engineering knowledge is not required.

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https://blog.iec.ch/2019/01/iso-iec-tr-22678-provides-policy-makers-with-guidance-on-cloud-computing/

https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c073642_ISO_IEC_TR_22678_2019.zip

7 febrero, 2019

Autor: Luisa Buitrago

Vibrant future for utility distribution businesses

Cyber Resilience in the Electricity Ecosystem: Principles and Guidance for Boards

Advancing the Landscape of Clean Energy Innovation

ESIF 2018 Annual Report

Panorama Energético de América Latina y El Caribe 2018

Electrification with Renewables

Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) Requirements Version 2.0

draft OECD Recommendation on Digital Security of Critical Activities

Global risk management survey

ISO/IEC TR 22678 provides policy makers with guidance on cloud computing

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