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Notes de l'éditeur
Odd but true: most business cases predict negative results and still smart meters are rolled out. As one representative from a utility regulator stated: I you decide to have a new kitchen installed you don’t calculate a business case for it, do you? Most cost benefit analyses that have positive results are influenced by single variable: energy savings by domestic consumers. The fact whether a business case has a positive or negative value can be manipulated by increasing or decreasing the projected energy savings. The energy savings however are not beneficial to the companies that invest in the facilitation of the savings.
Sometime back (when working for Kema) I was involved in number of cost/benefit analyses. One was conducted for the Min of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands. During the process it turned out that the four major grid operators could not come to consensus on the way to calculate costs and benefits. The final report presented average values whereas significant variations in costs and benefits were reported by the grid operators. It turned out that a single model for costs and benefits could not be applied for these companies.
Differentiate in selection of functionality and timing of deployment (departure from ‘now or never’ scenario)