Cloud computing in the smart grid sector market or up to 40 billion dollars

The smart grid can be said to be an important topic in today's power grid construction and manufacturing process, and the agencies expect the cloud services market in the smart grid to reach $40 billion trillion.

"Twelve-Five" period, the State Grid will invest 500 billion yuan, built to connect the large energy base and the main load center of the "three horizontal three vertical" UHV backbone network and 13 long-distance tributary transmission engineering, initially built into the core of the world's first-class strong smart grid.

The National Grid developed the "strong Smart grid technology standard system planning", defined the strong Smart grid technology standard Roadmap, is the world's first to guide the development of Smart grid technology programmatic standards. The plan of the National Network company is, to 2015, the basic construction of a strong intelligent grid with information, automation, interactive characteristics of the formation of North China, central China, east China as the end of the northwest, northeast power grid for the three large synchronous network, so that the power grid resource allocation capacity, economic efficiency, safety level, The level of science and technology and the level of intelligence have been comprehensively upgraded.

In addition, Japan plans to fully popularize the smart grid in 2030, while the Government is fully committed to building a smart grid overseas. In the battery sector, the Japanese enterprise's global market share goal is to strive to reach 50%, to obtain about 10 trillion yen market. Japan's Ministry of Economy and Industry has set up the "International Standardization Society for the Next Generation energy system", and Japan and the United States have established a Okinawa and Hawaii project to conduct a joint smart grid experiment.

The smart grid-related cloud computing services market will reach $40 billion trillion by 2020, according to a new report by Zpryme.

The report argues that the global deployment of smart grid technology is reshaping the global energy landscape, while also challenging the traditional business, information technology (IT), business and management architecture that utilities have been keeping for 50 years.

The core technology of cloud computing system: parallel computing. Parallel Computing (parallelcomputing) is the process of using multiple computing resources to solve computational problems, which is an effective method to improve computing speed and processing ability of computer system. Its basic idea is to use multiple processors to solve the same problem, and the solution problem is decomposed into several parts, each part is computed by a separate processor. A parallel computing system can be either a specially designed supercomputer that contains multiple processors, or a cluster of independent computers that interconnect in some way. The data is processed by parallel computing cluster, and the result of processing is returned to the user.

To be prepared to respond to this change, utilities must adopt new business models and business structures that will enable them to meet their current and future needs, Zpryme. Highly scalable and cost-effective cloud computing solutions will play an important role in adapting to this change for small and large utilities.

The report notes that cloud computing technology has experienced explosive growth in the IT industry. The successful application of cloud computing technology in human resources, health care and other fields has attracted the attention of global utilities. Many utilities have invested heavily in hardware facilities, particularly in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and sensor deployments.

Now that the hardware is in place, utilities are looking for ways to optimize and analyze the vast amounts of data generated by these devices. As a result, they see cloud services as a solution that they want to manage their external data, reduce IT costs, optimize their infrastructure, and upgrade their ability to quickly expand solutions to meet future business needs.

Zpryme's forecasts suggest that the market for utility cloud computing solutions will experience dynamic growth over the next 8-10 years, with an average annual growth rate of 25%. In the short term growth is likely to be moderate, largely guided by North America and Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, which is slow to intervene in cloud services, will drive growth.

By 2015, however, the Asia-Pacific region will surpass Europe, and will be neck up to North America by 2019. By 2020, the Asia-Pacific region will account for the largest share of the global cloud services market. The main areas of application of cloud computing solutions will be distributed system software and applications, AMI, and data management and analysis.

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