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• Boosting energy efficiency through Smart Grids
  • Table of contents
  • Executive summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
    • 2.1 Responsibility of the electrical system in GHG emissions
    • 2.2 ICT to mitigate climate change
  • 3 Smart Grid to mitigate climate change
    • 3.1 Towards fismartfl energy grids
    • 3.2 Main issues in Smart Grid implementation
    • 3.3 Policies
  • 4 Communication architectures for Smart Grids
    • 4.1 Legacy communication infrastructures in electrical grids
    • 4.2 ICT challenges and issues for Smart Grids
    • 4.3 Layout of the communication system
    • 4.4 Current networking infrastructures and the Smart Grid
    • 4.5 Using ICT energy storages for the power grid
  • 5 Energy footprint of ICT
    • 5.1 Energy footprint of public telecommunication networks
    • 5.2 Energy footprint of ICT devices at home
    • 5.3 Energy footprint of ICT in Smart Grids
    • 5.4 The path towards a figreenfl ICT
  • 6 Service support capabilities, resilience, security and power consumption
    • 6.1 LV distribution, home networks and measurement data collection
    • 6.2 Higher-level networking infrastructure
  • 7 Smart Grids in different economies
    • 7.1 A picture for emerging and developing countries
    • 7.2 The effort for electrification of developing countries
    • 7.3 Deployment of Smart Grids in developing countries
    • 7.4 Policy considerations
    • 7.4.1 Supporting telecommunication networks
  • 8 A different perspective, or the impact of the Smart Grid on ICT
  • 9 Key issues, challenges and opportunities
  • 10 Conclusions
  • Bibliography