A closer look at employing a smart microgrid approach to qualifying businesses in South Africa incorporating ISO 50 001

The purpose of this paper is to build on the work presented in [1]. In [1], the idea was proposed that a commercial business entity could be considered as a smart microgrid (SMG) if it were managed as such. Obviously the managed site, campus, would have to adhere to specific criteria, as indicated in [2] where a smart microgrid is defined. This paper now expands on that theme by incorporating the newly published (June 2011) ISO standard for energy management systems, i.e. ISO 50 001, to the smart microgrid approach from [1] and in so doing, also proving the SMG approach´s flexibility regarding the best practice used for its implementation.