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Pike Research’s Smart Grid research practice covers grid automation, smart metering, and energy management applications that are defining the next generation of the electrical grid. Research focus includes profiles of utility smart grid deployments, construction of microgrids at the sub-utility scale, examination of business models and technology issues including scalability and security, and quantification of the smart grid market opportunity across different sectors.
Smart Grid Advisory Services
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Meters
The Smart Meters Advisory Service covers deployments of smart meters with two-way communications capabilities by electric, gas, and water utilities. Analysis includes technology issues including networking, security, and data management, as well as utility business models, policy and regulatory issues, and consumer attitudes and acceptance of advanced metering. Key industry players are profiled in depth, and granular market forecasts are provided by country and world region.
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Energy Home
Pike Research’s Smart Energy Home Advisory Service focuses on energy management and smart energy devices and applications in the residential environment. Our research concentrates on consumer attitudes and acceptance of home energy management systems, smart appliances, smart meters, and utility programs including demand response, variable pricing, and energy efficiency incentive plans. The service also covers technology issues such as home area networking and interoperability with existing digital home systems.
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Infrastructure
The Smart Grid Infrastructure Advisory Service covers automation and control technologies for electricity transmission and distribution systems. The focus of our research includes analysis of utility smart grid deployment strategies, business models, policy and regulatory factors, operational requirements, and technologies issues. Key market segments include transmission, substation automation, distribution automation, and enabling technologies including communications networks, data analytics, and cyber security.
Microgrids
Pike Research’s Microgrids Advisory Service concentrates on distributed sections of the electrical grid that can be safely islanded from the utility grid for purposes of adding resilience, redundancy, and security to the electrical distribution system. Our research focuses on various applications and deployment scenarios including institutional/campus microgrids, military microgrids, and remote off-grid microgrids. Enabling technologies and systems are covered in depth, along with detailed tracking of microgrid deployments and assessments of key industry players.
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Security
The Smart Grid Security Advisory Service focuses on cyber security technology markets for substation automation, distribution automation, smart meters, and electric vehicles. The service assesses threats to the utility grid and evaluates the market opportunity for security solutions by application and risk type. Key industry players and their hardware, software, and services are analyzed in depth, and market forecasts are provided by industry segment and world region.
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Communications
Pike Research’s Smart Grid Communications Advisory Service focuses on networking and telecommunications systems that connect various elements of the utility grid including substations, transformers, smart meters, and smart energy devices within residential, commercial, and industrial environments. Coverage includes home area networks, building and facility networks, neighborhood area networks, and wide area networks. Our analysis focuses on business models, demand drivers, and technology issues such as security and scalability for public and private networks, including both fixed and wireless technologies.
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Grid IT
The Smart Grid IT Advisory Service covers a wide range of utility IT systems that are enabling the smart grid, from back office to customer premise. Research topics include smart grid data analytics, customer information systems, distribution management systems, cyber security, meter data management, managed services, and many more. Our analysis comprises market drivers and barriers, business models, technology issues, and the emerging competitive landscape for IT systems and services in the smart grid world.