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1 Motivation
This Question aims to develop standards, guidance, supplements and/or technical reports to create a smart energy solutions using new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs including those which make use of artificial intelligence.
It is increasingly recognized that global climate change will have a significant impact on global society, especially the energy sector. The energy industry includes the electricity and fuels that drive society and the economy, including commerce, manufacturing, transportation, communications, health, water supply and treatment, and other critical infrastructure and systems. It is becoming clear that there is a possibility of disruption in the energy system due to climate change, which influences the quality of life. In particular, climate change can increase the frequency and intensity of various natural phenomena such as earthquakes, high temperatures, heavy rain, strong winds, storms and floods.
Since various energy systems are often installed outdoors, they are vulnerable to the natural phenomena. The vulnerability to the natural phenomena should be considered during the design and operation of energy systems. However, energy management systems using the conventional ICTs in energy industry does not consider the vulnerability. The energy management systems can be improved by new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs. Furthermore, greenhouse gas emissions from the energy industry account for about one third of total emissions. In order to tackle such climate change, various methods including smart energy solutions are being developed.
Smart energy solutions connect energy supply and demands through ICT network and grid. They monitor the optimal usage of energy, promote balancing supply and demand based on real-time information collected using new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs such as sensors and meters, etc. Smart energy solutions have different characteristics from the conventional electrical grids. The co-existence of conventional electrical grid systems and smart energy solutions can introduce new issues. For example, wind or solar power generation exhibits intermittency of power generation; consequently, applying these smart energy solutions to transportation, building, manufacturing industry, etc., requires new operational management considerations.
In the view above, this Question seeks to develop standards, guidelines and frameworks that support the digital transition of energy industry using new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs and apply smart energy solutions to transportation, building, manufacturing industry, etc., in order to achieve more effective and efficient energy management and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This Question is in line with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 7 "Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all"; SDG 9 "Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation"; SDG 11 "Make cities and human settlement inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" and SDG 13 "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact".
The following Recommendations and supplements, in force at the time of approval of this Question, fall under its responsibility:
- L.1220, L.1221, L.1222, L.1383
2 Questions
Study items to be considered include, but are not limited to:
- What Recommendations, supplements or technical reports are needed to provide guidance on how to facilitate the use of smart energy solutions for, for example, transportation, building, manufacturing industry, and strategies related to supply chain?
- What Recommendations, supplements or technical reports are needed for digital transition of energy industry using new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs for climate change mitigation in energy industry to achieve sustainable energy management and services?
- What Recommendations, supplements or technical reports are needed for effectively managing transportation, building, manufacturing industry, etc., where the conventional grid systems and smart energy solutions coexist?
- What Recommendations, supplements or technical reports are needed for specifications of configuration and installation of power feeding systems in DC or hybrid AC and DC, including cable distribution methods, basic concepts (or architectures) of the power supply network in transportation, building, manufacturing industry, etc.?
- What Recommendations, supplements or technical reports are needed for specifications of interfaces and protocols for power feeding systems?
3 Tasks
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Develop Recommendations, supplements and/or technical reports to set the requirements for smart energy solutions which contribute to mitigating climate change using new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs in transportation, building, manufacturing industry, etc.;
- Develop Recommendations, supplements and/or technical reports to support the use and implementation of smart energy solutions in transportation, building, manufacturing industry, etc., and development of strategies related to supply chain;
- Develop Recommendations, supplements and/or technical reports to promote balancing supply and demand with telecommunications/ICTs such as utilizing ICT sites as a micro-grid and virtual power plant;
- Develop Recommendations, supplements and/or technical reports on utilizing energy in ICT such as data centre heat to other industries such as transportation, building, manufacturing industry, etc.;
- Develop Recommendations, supplements and/or technical reports on energy management system using new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs for transportation, building, manufacturing industry, etc.;
- Develop Recommendations, supplements and/or technical reports to promote climate change mitigation in the energy industry by improving the energy efficiency of various equipment/systems using telecommunications/ICTs;
- Develop Recommendations supplements and/or technical reports on the characterizations and specifications of the energy storage evaluation and power system configurations, architectures and cable distributions of the DC or hybrid AC and DC power feeding system considering the interconnection to smart grids and smart energy solutions;
- Develop Recommendations supplements and/or technical reports on the characterizations and specifications of interfaces and protocols for power feeding systems considering the interconnection to smart grids and smart energy solutions;
- Develop Recommendations supplements and/or technical reports on new energy saving solutions and low carbon emission smart energy solutions to other sectors, including key parameter requirements of new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs;
- Maintenance and revision of existing Recommendations and other deliverables.
An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the ITU-T SG5 work programme (https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_search.aspx?sp=18&q=11/5).
4 Relationships
Recommendations:
- ITU-T K- and L-series Recommendations
Questions:
- 6/5, 7/5, 9/5, 12/5
Study Groups:
- ITU-T SGs
- ITU-D SGs
- ITU-R SGs
Other bodies:
- ATIS
- CCSA
- ETSI
- ECMA
- IEC
- IETF
- ISO
- ISO/IEC JTC 1
- CIAJ
- GISFI
- 3GPP
- TSDSI
- IEEE
- CESI
- TTA
- MCMC
WSIS Action Lines:
- C2, C7
Sustainable Development Goals:
- 7, 9, 11, 13
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