Study on 5G smart energy and infrastructure
The present document is to address study use cases, potential new service requirements for 5G system to support Smart Grid including the following topics:
• Smart Grid services, e.g. IEC standards, and their communications requirements including capacity, latency, availability, end-to-end QoS, resilience/redundancy and security.
• Deployment requirements when considering constraints e.g. service lifetime, coverage (ubiquity), electromagnetic applicability (e.g. penetration, ability to operate in high EM environments,) etc.
• Additional requirements due to operational manageability – e.g. the ability to configure and monitor the real (achieved & up to date) availability of virtual network topologies
• New Smart Grid use cases and potential service function requirements: e.g. on-demand power supply, distributed power supply system, distribution automation, higher accuracy power load measurement and control, meter automation, etc.
• Communication KPI and service requirements for enabling microgrids, DER and specifically distributed generation (DG) that require 5G wireless communication (e.g. wind and solar energy generation, including scenarios at or near residential / consumer premises, etc.)