Smart Grid - Demand Management as key resource for improvement and social contribution to 2020 strategy

SUMMARY The purpose of this paper is to explain to the Energy Sector the conclusions of the Smart Grid Communications emulation for 100.000 users, developed under the GAD project in Spain (Active Demand Management). Due to the current trend of enhancing the electrical network information and communication capabilities, the Smart Grid has raised an important opportunity of improvement thanks to Demand Response in the last mile. A new communications architecture to cover the different aspects of a Smart Grid and Demand Management has been designed in the GAD project. This architecture supports the automatic business procedures from the TSO (Transport & System Operator), DSO (Distribution System Operator) and Power Marketers, and considers protocols of recent