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	"Smart Sacramento" American project "Smart Sacramento" is a big investment (worth over 300mln USD) which was commenced in 2009 by Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in order to modernize the grid and meters in greater Sacramento, California. It focused on network-wide smart meter deployment, grid automation, and offering dynamic pricing, which aims at reducing peak energy usage. The project turned out to be a huge success, 619 thousands smart meters were installed, every month SMUD saves millions in the lower grid management cost, and the peak grid load is reduced by a few percent. The project won the 2013 Smart Grid project of the year, a contest organized by PowerGrid International. www.smud.org
	Smart Grids Model Region Salzburg Smart Grids Model Region Salzburg (SGMS) is a project administered by Salzburg AG, which implements and harmonizes various aspects of smart grid. Salzburg AG is a distribution system operator in the central Austria. SGMS project integrates many parts of the network into the smart grid, including renewable energy sources, residential customers, buildings (Micro-Grid) and E-mobility features. The project also researches information and communcation technology (ICT) for smart grid and data security issues. www.salzburgnetz.at
	MeRegio - "Minimum Emission Regions", model region of Baden-Württemberg, EnBWEnergie Baden-Württemberg AG MeRegio is one of the six projects led by German Government in the E-Energy program. MeRegio is overseen by EnBW, the third biggest energy distribution system operator in Germany. EnBW is present in Europe and Far East, it also has presence in Poland. The project develops smart grid infrastructure, which allows real-time communication with energy consumers. In MeRegio project, there are multiple distributed energy sources and energy storages installed. There were 950 households participating in the project, and the overall budget was 22mln Euro. www.meregio.de
	Pilot Project Smart Region Vrchlabi (Grid4EU) Since 2011 CEZ participates in the EU project Grid4EU. Grid4EU aims at implementation of demonstration projects with focus on distribution grids with renewable generation facilities and the active involvement of customers. CEZ's project takes place in Vrchlabi, and its other aims are insular smart grid operations and installing smart meters. Other participants of Grid4EU are ERDF (France), Enel (Italy), Iberdrola (Spain), and Vatenfall (Sweden). www.cezdistribuce.cz
	Full-Scale Demonstration Project GreenLys GreenLys project tests the operation of a Smart Grid as a whole, involving all participants in the electricity market from the producer to the end consumer, including the distributor and the supplier. This full-scale demonstrator integrates the consumer, decentralized energy facilities (photovoltaic cells and cogeneration plants), electric cars and an intelligent structure based on the use of smart meters. Two technological platforms are being developed in the urban areas of Lyon and Grenoble. Together, up to 1,000 residential consumers and 40 commercial sites will participate in the experiment. In the years 2012 and 2016 €40 mln will be invested in the project. This systemic view allows the consortium to understand the potential value of a Smart Grid in a holistic way. Besides GDF Suez, other companies involved in the project are ERDF, GEG, Schneider Electric and Grenoble INP, and smart grid specialized firms like Atos Worldgrid, Cnrs EDDEN, Hespul, CEA-LITEN, Alstom Grid, RAEE i RTE. www.greenlys.fr
	Large Scale Roll-Out - DSMR 4.0 phase Stedin, a Dutch distribution network operator continues its mass roll-out of smart meters. The current phase, DSMR 4.0 started in 2012 and will be carried through until the end of 2015. All in all, half a million smart meters are to be installed, which will be the biggest roll-out of smart meters in Holland. Some interesting facets of this project are removing the breaker and the valve from the smart meter, creating interoperability standards and the communication and automation aspects. www.stedin.net
	Smart meter project NRGi In 2010-2013, NRGi successfully deployed 214,000 smart meters. Like many utilities, NRGi wanted to deploy smart meters to improve their billing system, but also to generate data for a data-driven decision-making process in the DSO. The process to replace hundreds of thousands of meters, was done very smooth. The meters were provisioned at the factory to support the main demands and arrived ready for installation. Special configurations was done remote. We replaced as many as 1,200 meters on a peak day. The system is based on the OSGP protocol, ensuring best performance and extensive functionality. The meters is having a very high success rate above 99.9%. Because of the reliability the system is handled and maintained by a very few numbers of people. NRGi is active member of the OSGP Alliance www.nrgi.dk
	Smart Grid Project STAR STAR project aims at the complex modernization of Iberdrola grid, including replacing all meters operated by Iberdrola (10mln, by the end of 2018). As part of the Iberdrola’s STAR Project, Castellón became the first Spanish city with an intelligent power distribution grid. Iberdrola replaced or enhanced more than 100,000 meters currently used by residential and industrial customers with PRIME based smart meters from multiple vendors. Transformer stations were adapted to handle certain services remotely, read metering devices, and coordinate registrations, cancellations or modifications of subscribers. The complete city of Castellón today has a one-of-a-kind smart distribution network, including an end-to-end communications network from the utility to each residence, including remotely managed and read meters and data concentrators from various suppliers, all interoperable with each other. In addition, many distribution transformers are remotely controlled and managed. www.iberdrola.es