Smart Grid Market Research

This Market Insight examines the smart grids market in South America. It provides a market share breakdown, an analysis of key market drivers and restraints, and revenue and unit shipment forecasts by region for the smart electricity meter market. It also explores the major trends and impacts for service providers regarding the Internet of Things (...

This research service analyses trends within the European smart grid DR market. It determines the challenges and opportunities for industrial and ICT vendors. This is a distinctively potent market, in which conditions are characterised by dominant manufacturers and innovative technology enablers within the various functional aspects of the power gr...

The smart meter rollout is gaining speed in Europe, driven by the EU mandate to have 80% coverage of smart meters in households by 2020. Equally interesting is the evolution of the smart grid wherein communication and involvement of the demand-side participants (consumers) become very important. This market insight looks at both hardware (EV chargi...

Smart grid development in Australia kick started in 2010. It was led by the government- mandated and funded smart meter rollout in Victoria. Nevertheless, parallel cost-benefit analyses carried out by other power distribution utilities, challenges encountered during the rollout in Victoria, and budget restraints have driven utilities to explore alt...

This market insight discusses the opportunities in electronics for smart grid applications in selected Asia Pacific countries, namely Australia, South Korea, Japan, and Singapore. It takes into account the market drivers and restraints, as well as the growth opportunities for electronics that are likely to gain momentum for the various segments in ...

The need to connect the devices in the home to the smart grid in order to increase control of those devices and improve energy efficiency are driving a merge between home technologies and smart grid deployment. This study evaluates the factors impacting such trend as well the benefits and barriers the industry is facing. An overview of related tech...

Market pressures to improve energy efficiency are driving a merge between building technologies and information and communication technologies to develop intelligent buildings and smart grids. This study evaluates the factors impacting such trend and the benefits for an integrated network of energy consumers (buildings) with power suppliers (utilit...

This research service analyzes the key challenges and pain points faced by several leading utilities especially power distributors and retailers for adopting smart grid in markets, where this technology has been rolled out on a pilot basis. This includes countries such as Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. A brief profile of...