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Electricity Supply

Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG

Smart Electricity 91.27 %
Meters

Electricity Supply ICT Not Reported
Monitoring

Demand Response Not Reported
Penetration

Electricity System 1.01
Outage Frequency

Electricity System
Outage Time 0.68 Minutes

Access to Electricity 100.00 %

Valencia's electrical service is effective, with few interruptions, and an ongoing monitoring via the
widespread installation of smart electricity meters. It is recommended that the city also measures and
reports data on the use of ICTs to monitor the electrical supply systems, as well as on any demand
response penetration capability that exists. Both KPIs will be important in the future, as Spain’s energy
regulatory model has slowly started to move away from the dominant centralized generation model
– in which electricity demand is considered inelastic – to a more local distributed energy resources
(DER) market, which is gathering momentum as technology costs come down.
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Optimizing future electrical supply: To make the distributed energy segment sustainable and successful,
as some European markets are already doing successfully, cities such as Valencia have a part to play in
mainstreaming demand response and energy storage, and treating them as being equally important
as energy generation. Demand-response capability will be vital in keeping costs down in the future by
providing load reductions during periods of extreme load, curtailing demand on overstretched power
generation capacity, and helping to avoid unnecessary investments in new grid capacity.

Recommendations ITU-T Y.4000 to Y.4999: ‘Internet of things and smart cities and communities’
contain guidance on IoT applications and ubiquitous sensor networking, including, for example, ITU-T
Y.4409/Y.2070: ‘Requirements and architecture of the home energy management system and home
network services’.

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