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Using Smart Grids to Enhance Use of Energy-Efficiency and Renewable-Energy Technologies
The Fukui Declaration from the Ninth Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Energy Ministers Meeting (EMM-9), June 2010, states that “smart grid technologies, including advanced battery technologies for highly-efficient and cost-effective energy storage, can help to integrate intermittent renewable power sources and building control systems that let businesses and consumers use energy more efficiently, and they can also help to enhance the reliability of electricity supply, extend the useful life of power system components, and reduce system operating costs.” The energy ministers further instructed the APEC Energy Working Group (EWG) “to start an APEC Smart Grid Initiative (ASGI) to evaluate the potential of smart grid capabilities to support the integration of intermittent renewable energies and energy-management approaches in buildings and industry.” This report directly supports the ASGI Phase 1: Survey of Smart Grid Status and Potential of Smart Grid. The report also builds upon a series of APEC projects undertaken by the APEC Energy Working Group and its Expert Group on New and Renewable Energy Technologies that were developed to support calls from APEC Leaders and Energy Ministers to promote the development and utilization of APEC energy-efficiency and renewable-energy resources. These include the Chinese Taipei-led 2008 APEC Photovoltaic Conference, the United States (US)-led APEC Workshop on Grid Integration of Renewable Energy, and the Japanese-led project on Addressing Grid-interconnection Issues in Order to Maximize the Utilization of New and Renewable Energy Sources. The project also takes advantage of APEC specific research undertaken by Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre in Japan.
