Governing the transition of socio-technical systems: A case study of the development of smart grids in Korea

Mah, Daphne Ngar‐yin; Vleuten, J.M. van der; Ip, Jasper Chi-man; Hills, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.005

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“…In Europe, a total of 459 smart‐grid projects have been launched since 2002 in 28 EU member states, with 49% of the total €3.15 billion investment coming from government funding sources (Covrig et al, ). Korea's smart‐grid policies are government‐led and export‐oriented to encourage the government–industry–consumer collaboration for smart‐grid technological innovation (Ngar‐yin Mah, van der Vleuten, Chi‐Man Ip, & Ronald Hills, ). The Chinese government's strategies mainly focus on the supply‐side, which drive R&D, technical knowledge, and manpower in eleven state‐owned power companies to foster the smart grid industry (Lin, Yang, & Shyua, ).…”

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Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment in the United States: The Impact of Polycentric Governance and Contextual Changes

Zhou

Matisoff

2016

Review of Policy Research

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Advanced metering infrastructure provides the first building block in smart grids by empowering customers and utilities with real-time information regarding energy use. It is a key element in the U.S. government's push for electric grid modernization. Using a panel dataset for 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over the years 2007-2012, we evaluate the impacts of a polycentric governance system and socioeconomic contexts on states' performance in smart metering deployment. We find that the advanced metering technological change in the United States has been exclusively created by the interdependencies and interactions between different layers of government. High-tech industry is the only socioeconomic factor that has a negative impact on smart meter deployment, whereas other factors, such as pressures from energy consumers and environmental groups, and electric grid conditions, have negligible impacts.KEY WORDS: advanced metering infrastructure, technology diffusion, polycentric governance, fixed effects models 646 bs_bs_banner

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment in the United States: The Impact of Polycentric Governance and Contextual Changes

Zhou

Matisoff

2016

Review of Policy Research

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“…Smart grid strategies to improve the sustainability of the electricity sector can target both supply-side (e.g., generation) and demand-side (e.g., consumption) activities, thus allowing the smart grid to play a significant role in a low-carbon future [6]. In regards to the former, the smart grid can support the integration of distributed generation and more variable energy sources, such as wind and solar, while maintaining system reliability.…”

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Toward a sustainable modern electricity grid: The effects of smart metering and program investments on demand-side management performance in the US electricity sector 2009-2012

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Chen

2018

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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Building a sustainable modern electricity sector is a key part of the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Smart meters are expected to contribute to the achievement of this goal by providing new demand-side management opportunities for utilities. Attempting to address existing gaps in the extant literature, this paper examines the effects of metering technologies and demand-side management program investments using panel data from 87 American electricity utilities for the period 2009-2012. Our model provides strong explanatory power with respect to energy efficiency, and shows that automated meter reading (AMR) devices, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) devices, direct program costs and incentive costs all have a positive influence on energy efficiency effects. In contrast, the results for load management are largely insignificant, with the exception of incentive costs which has a small, but significant, negative impact on peak load reductions. We discuss the implications and potential research directions arising from these findings, in particular the need to consider interactions between different demand-side programs and the influence of different types of information technologies that are emerging as part of the smart grid. Managerial Relevance Statement Panel data analysis is performed to investigate the impacts of smart metering and program financial investments on energy demand management by the US electricity sector. Unlike most existing studies on smart grid implementation which utilize cross-sectional data, the use of panel data in this research allow for the identification of impacts of the smart grid technology by observing the performances of the same utilities over time. Decision makers can then input their specific characteristics, such as numbers of different meters types and their level of investment, to understand and determine what benefits could be expected given a certain level of technology implementation or financial investment. Our research also leads to a number of analytical results which are different from those in the existing literature. In particular, we show that automated meter reading devices, advanced metering infrastructure devices, direct program costs and incentive costs all have a positive influence on energy efficiency effects, but not on load reductions. We also discuss the importance for decision makers to consider the interactions between different types of demand-side initiatives in conjunction with transformations occurring on the supply-side as well as the continuing innovation in smart grid technologies in use by intermediary organizations and consumers.

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“…During crises, KPX and KEPCO act as focal points for grid status, health, and management across the nation: KPX managing power flow and operations decisions and KEPCO managing power line and infrastructure recovery. KEPCO has 6 generation subsidiaries that independently operate and manage ∼97% of Korean grid [40]. Liquid fuel, natural gas, and coalfired power plants are owned and operated by 5 of the 6 Transformers connect buses that are too close together to be shown in this image.…”

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Sociotechnical Network Analysis for Power Grid Resilience in South Korea

2017

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International efforts to improve power grid resilience mostly focus on technological solutions to reduce the probability of losses by designing hardened, automated, redundant, and smart systems. However, how well a system recovers from failures depends on policies and protocols for human and organizational coordination that must be considered alongside technological analyses. In this work, we develop a sociotechnical network analysis that considers technological and human systems together to support improved blackout response. We construct corresponding infrastructure and social network models for the Korean power grid and analyze them with betweenness to identify critical infrastructures and emergency management organizations. Power grid network analysis reveals important power companies and emergency management headquarters for responding to infrastructure losses, where social network analysis reveals how information-sharing and decision-making authority shifts among these organizations. We find that separate analyses provide relevant yet incomplete recommendations for improving blackout management protocols. In contrast, combined results recommend explicit ways to improve response by connecting key owner, operator, and emergency management organizations with the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy. Findings demonstrate that both technological and social analyses provide important information for power grid resilience, and their combination is necessary to avoid unintended consequences for future blackout events.

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Governing the transition of socio-technical systems: A case study of the development of smart grids in Korea

Cited by 78 publications

References 15 publications

Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment in the United States: The Impact of Polycentric Governance and Contextual Changes

Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment in the United States: The Impact of Polycentric Governance and Contextual Changes

Toward a sustainable modern electricity grid: The effects of smart metering and program investments on demand-side management performance in the US electricity sector 2009-2012

Sociotechnical Network Analysis for Power Grid Resilience in South Korea

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