Most of currently deployed Grid systems employ hierarchical or centralized approaches to simplify system management.
When deploying grid concepts in peer-to-peer networks, scalability increases, as there is no administrative node in P2P concept.
This chapter presents a detailed analysis of the practical issues that arise when deploying Grid technologies in "production" environments.
As deployed Grids increase from 10s to 1000s of nodes, the construction of an efficient and scalable information system is a key issue, as it is vital for providing querying and discovery services.
Electric utilities have already begun to deploy smart grid technologies to better manage commercial and household load using intelligent metering and communications systems in order to save energy, cut emissions, and reduce peak loads.
Current DER systems integration and communication challenges include leveraging the existing DER and DR technology and systems infrastructure, and enabling optimized cost, energy and carbon choices for customers to deploy interoperable grid transactions and renewable energy systems at scale.
By comparing these different aspects of socio-political acceptance, we suggest that key stakeholders seeking to deploy smart grid technology could better stimulate citizen support in certain jurisdictions by more actively using positive, pro-environmental frames and by better engaging with citizens earlier in the technology and policy design and deployment process.
Governments are placing enormous pressure on the energy industry to deploy smart grids.
Because of its generic architecture and wide standards conformity the framework can be deployed as grid or cloud middleware for various other domains of computational science to enable rapid development of complex workflow applications.
Having discussed issues in managing security in collaborative applications deployed over Grid computing infrastructure in the first part of the article (see Network Security April 2006), Part 2 describes the application of security in the construction industry, and the associated security management service architecture.
Half a world away in East Africa Power Gen and PowerHive are pioneering efforts to enable private sector start-ups to become retail electricity providers for the Kenyan state owned utility by deploying smart, grid interoperable micro grids.
