Roll Out and Learnings of Smart Grids (The French Experience)

Abstract

The development of smart grid solutions offers new opportunities for DSOs to ensure continuity and quality of supply in a cost- efficient way. It will help them face the various challenges related to energy transition and answer the expectations from public authorities, such as the development of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles. This paper details first the approach adopted by Enedis to elaborate and implement its roadmap of Smart Grid technical solutions, from R&D concept to their industrial roll-out. It then describes Enedis roadmap and its two main objectives, which are to modernise network management processes and infrastructures and to provide assistance to stakeholders of the electric power system and regional territories in the French energy transition. Finally, the first industrialised solutions, aiming at bringing tangible benefits for all users of the distribution system, are detailed with their large-scale deployment strategy.