(Giacomo Selmi)
And 'now the unanimous opinion that the transition to a system "low-carbon distance through the distribution network.
transmission networks have made little progress: their structure still has its original, created to deliver energy from the major centers of production to large load centers. This structure does not allow an optimal integration of renewable sources such as random, or a paradigm of distributed generation such as implicit in a system that provides for the use of renewable sources. Today
companies that manage the networks they are faced with challenges and opportunities, is important and meaningful in terms of technological and strategic. Challenges and opportunities are shared and stimulated also by national regulators.
The first and perhaps most important of these challenges is the evolution of the distribution network, to be intelligent, smart-grid precisely. If
in detail there is still no agreement on a standard definition of smart-grid - although the EU has given that seems to meet the wishes of most of those involved, "an electric that can be integrated in an intelligent manner the activities of all users connected to you (...) to efficiently deploy a sustainable supply of electricity, cheap and safe "- is clear, however, and accepted by all, the vital role that they can have for the success of European policies to reduce CO2 emissions and energy efficiency. So much so that legislation introduced in Europe with the program for 2020 and the even more ambitious in the definition phase in 2050, is commonly referred to as one of the two main macro drivers for the introduction of smart grid, where the other is given by the specific needs elicited from this legislation. From
point of view of regulators, who are viewed as a "spokesman" of the interests of consumers, will open new opportunities and the need to redefine priorities and goals.
It will be their task to push retailers towards a more user-centered, encouraging technological innovation and recognizing the risk associated with investments in innovation, but also suggest new services and efficient solutions, and promoting a new approach to the market see a separation of the volume of energy supplied by the profits.
The issue may actually be controversial, but is central to a program of innovation: it is highly likely that a bond direct or too tight between the volume of energy supplied and profits of the operators, may be a nuisance or even a deterrent to policy and effective energy efficiency measures and also implemented by the players themselves.
And in Italy? Where do we stand?
Our country has a leadership position in the field of smart grid that took off from the mainstream work of the project with Enel Distribuzione remote management, a project of smart metering recognized as international benchmarks, which began in 2002 and now covers nearly 100 % of users. It will be the skeleton from which to develop smart grid Italian, (not forgetting that the smart metering does not exhaust the smart grid, but it is only a part). Enel is also among the founders of the project EEGI (European Electricity Grid Initiative), an initiative of distribution and transmission operators to define a model and a roadmap for the implementation of smart grid in Europe.
addition, the Ministry of Economic Development has led, along with Korea, the development of the Technology Action Plan on the smart grid, discussed and approved in Copenhagen in December 2009. It was in the SET Plan (Strategic Energy Technology), leading to a significant industrial and technological contribution to the initiative on the grid and, at least on paper, revitalizing or defining projects for funding and incentives. On the regulatory side
then, the Authority also is moving and has so far issued guidelines ARG / elt 39/10 to encourage, through a tariff remuneration of pilot projects to promote the development of smart grids.
The road may be long, and the way it seems sometimes slowed by uncertainties about standards and financial support, but what has been done so far does not seem just and collaboration between regulators and operators seems promising to achieve common solutions.
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