@misc{27885,
  keywords = {China Energy Group, China Energy, Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, International Energy Department, Energy System Planning & Grid Integration},
  author = {Chris Marnay and Liping Liu and JianCheng Yu and Dong Zhang and Josh Mauzy and Brendan Shaffer and XuZhu Dong and Will Agate and Silvia Vitiello and GuoQi Ren and Cheng Yao and Xial Hong and XuDong Wang and Jia Song and TianHao Wang and Lei Wu and Jing Zhao and Nihan Karali and Gang He and Kevin Clampitt and Robert J Yinger and Han Zhu and Li Zhao and Scott Samuelsen and David Smith and Jayant Kumar and Fengshun Jiao and Dazhong Zou and Jinsong Zhang and Ming Xiao and Sheng Tang and Zhikeng Li and Xiaozhen Li and Tyler Shiqiao Yan and Limingming Zhu and Xu Liu},
  title = {White Paper on Benefit Analysis of Smart Grid Projects},
  abstract = {<p>Smart grids are rolling out internationally, with the United States (U.S.) nearing completion of a significant USD4-plus-billion federal program funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA-2009). The emergence of smart grids is widespread across developed countries. Multiple approaches to analyzing the benefits of smart grids have emerged. The goals of this white paper are to review these approaches and analyze examples of each to highlight their differences, advantages, and disadvantages. This work was conducted under the auspices of a joint U.S.-China research effort, the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) Implementation Plan, Smart Grid. We present comparative benefits assessments (BAs) of smart grid demonstrations in the U.S. and China along with a BA of a pilot project in Europe. In the U.S., we assess projects at two sites: (1) the University of California, Irvine campus (UCI), which consists of two distinct demonstrations: Southern California Edison's (SCE) Irvine Smart Grid Demonstration Project (ISGD) and the UCI campus itself; and (2) the Navy Yard (TNY) area in Philadelphia, which has been repurposed as a mixed commercial-industrial, and possibly residential, development. In China, we cover several smart-grid aspects of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city (TEC) and the Shenzhen Bay Technology and Ecology City (B-TEC). In Europe, we look at a BA of a pilot smart grid project in the Malagrotta area west of Rome, Italy, contributed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The Irvine sub-project BAs use the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) Smart Grid Computational Tool (SGCT), which is built on methods developed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The TEC sub-project BAs apply Smart Grid Multi-Criteria Analysis (SG-MCA) developed by the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with fuzzy logic. The B-TEC and TNY sub-project BAs are evaluated using new approaches developed by those project teams. JRC has adopted an approach similar to EPRI's but tailored to the Malagrotta distribution grid.</p>},
  year = {2016},
}