Casebook on Innovative Regulatory Approaches with Focus on Experimental Sandboxes

The idea for the focus of this casebook on experimental (regulatory) sandbox Initiatives was generated during the CEM9/Nordic Clean Energy Week, as a result of the workshop Intelligent Market Design – Boosting Global Smart Grid Deployment (23 May 2018) and the following Annex and inter-annex meetings. In these discussions, market regulation was repeatedly identified as a key topic for further collaboration in research and innovation.
ISGAN booklets for CEM10 are now available online

The 10th Clean Energy Ministerial was held on 29 May in Vancouver, Canada and ISGAN, one of CEM initiatives on smart grids, released its deliverables to increase visibility of its activities to external stakeholders around the world.
With this, we are pleased to inform you that ISGAN booklet for CEM10 is now available for download as attached.
The Smart Grid Discourse Arena: A Global Social Network Analysis

For shaping and adapting policy agendas and institutional change towards Smart Grids, it is of utmost importance to understand how discourses develop in the fast-changing reality of energy transition. This policy brief provides evidence about the smart grid related topics, which create most attention by actor groups and the public.
The analysis is based on systematically observed global communication at the online social media platform, Twitter with with a dataset of more than 70 thousand messages between December 2015 and April 2018, which all include the hashtag #smartgrid and/or #smartgrids.
Flexibility in Future Power Systems

Power system flexibility: the ability to manage change
ICT aspects of TSO-DSO interaction

Data exchange and ICT requirements along organizational interaction between TSO and DSO
Social costs and benefits of smart grid technologies

This Discussion Paper maps and reviews existing literature about costs and benefits of smart grid projects and identifies gaps in current guidance. The report also includes an analysis of how network regulation affects costs and benefits of smart grid technologies. The report allows selecting models/methods to be used by the Swedish Smart Grid Forum in order to assess different smart grid projects and applications. It also provides input for further work on the topic of decision making for smart grid technologies.
ISGAN Side Event at CEM9 – Policy Brief and Workshop Summary

Opportunities to Accelerate Smart Grid Deployment through Innovative Market Design – jointly organized with the Swedish Smart Grid Forum (23rd and 24th May – as part of the Nordic Clean Energy Week in Malmö and Copenhagen)
2017 ISGAN Annual Report

The 2017 Annual Report provides an overview of ISGAN’s ongoing research activities and key achievements towards smart grid development and deployment to ensure a reliable, economically competitive and environmentally sustainable electricity system.
MC-CBA toolkit: model and case study

In this document the mathematical model of the MC-CBA framework is described. This framework is exploited by original software, the MC-CBA toolkit. This software integrates the CBA within an MCA process. The MC-CBA toolkit allows for an output-based assessment of the alternatives based on an automated comparison procedure. To describe the features of the MC-CBA toolkit, a case study related to the project selection among different smart grid development plans is presented.
New ISGAN Brochure

The new ISGAN Brochure give a full picture of ISGAN and its Annexes