Smart Grid Market Research

The past 2-3 years have witnessed an increasing interest in smart grids and smart energy. Smart meters are considered to be the first step towards smart grid implementation. The smart meter rollout in Europe is well underway, boosted by the European Union legislation to achieve 80 percent coverage by 2020. Sweden and Italy had full scale penetratio...

The majority of European energy utilities have made considerable amount of progress towards smart grid implementation, especially in the areas of automated meter infrastructure (AMI) and demand side management. Approximately 35 per cent of utilities companies do not know when a return on investment will be achieved from their programs, whereas 29 p...

The key objective of this research service is to provide an analysis of the key trends in the European smart grid market from 2007 to 2017: to identify the opportunities for automation solution providers prevalent through investments in implementing smart grids; to determine the implications of adopting smart grids demand response strategies; to id...

The CEE smart grid market is relatively small and under-developed compared to Western Europe and North America. However, significant growth opportunities exist. This Market Insight looks at the outlook for the market and the initial indicators of growth and projects achieved so far.