A flexible, privacy enhanced and secured ICT architecture for a smart grid project with active consumers in the city of Zwolle — NL

This paper presents the ICT architecture for a Smart Grid project with consumer interaction in the city of Zwolle, the Netherlands. It describes the privacy and security enhancing measures applied to ensure a positive sum of necessary functionality and respect for consumer´s privacy and secure business operation. The project was executed by Enexis (a Dutch DSO), in cooperation with CGI (IT services), Flexicontrol (In-Home automation), DONG Energy (Electricity Supplier), Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and SWZ (Housing Corporation in Zwolle). The implemented system facilitates Demand Side Management (DSM) for 250 households in a residential area. It aims at investigating to what extent the households´ flexibility in demand can be made available. The obtained knowledge is to be used for optimizing the use of locally produced sustainable energy and the local grid capacity. The idea is to realize this using a combination of technology, incentives, interaction and communication instruments as presented at CIRED 2011 [1].