National scale impact of the Stockholm Royal Seaport project

This paper investigates how results from limited pilot studies concerning Smart Grids can be extrapolated to a Swedish national scale. The paper investigates the challenges with a national scale implementation of a proposed price model for electricity that combines the cost of energy with the cost of distribution that aims to encourage end-consumer Demand Response (DR). The estimated change in the national scale load-curve that may be achieved given high customer DR participation is analysed as well. Numerous challenges of a national scale implementation are identified, mainly regarding the suggested price model´s economic incentive and the Swedish apartment configuration of white goods that differs from that of the pilot studies. The estimated change in the national scale load-curve may also pose problems since the end consumer behaviour that is desirable from a distribution grid point of view may differ from that of an optimal production capacity point of view.