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Smart Grid Operation: A Survey

2017 UBT International Conference, 2017

Creation of Smart Grid meets the energy requirements of the 21 st century in a hightech manner with real time approach by providing a significant improvement in power reliability and services, and integrating the latest digital communications in the current power grid. This grid improves the ability of consumers and utilities to monitor, control, and predict the use of energy. The main goal of this paper is to present and justify the need to study electricity distribution grid, and to present the practical ways in which the proposed study should be focused. The focus will be in enabling a cost-efficient realization of the future robust and flexible electricity distribution grid. This will prepare the way for increased distributed generation from renewable sources, more efficient use of energy, and electrification of transport. The sustainability targets for the future energy system cannot be met without addressing the necessary transformation of the electricity distribution system.

Challenges, issues and opportunities for the development of smart grid

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2020

The development smart grids have made the power systems planning and operation more efficient by the application of renewable energy resources, electric vehicles, two-way communication, self-healing, consumer engagement, distribution intelligence, etc. The objective of this paper is to present a detailed comprehensive review of challenges, issues and opportunities for the development of smart grid. Smart grids are transforming the traditional way of meeting the electricity demand and providing the way towards an environmentally friendly, reliable and resilient power grid. This paper presents various challenges of smart grid development including interoperability, network communications, demand response, energy storage and distribution grid management. This paper also reviews various issues associated with the development of smart grid. Local, regional, national and global opportunities for the development of smart grid are also reported in this paper. 1. INTRODUCTION Smart grid (SG) technologies are vital to meet world's vast and growing electricity needs. Smart grids (SGs) are transforming the traditional way of meeting the electricity demand and providing the way towards an environmentally friendly, reliable and resilient power grid. Micro grids operate at the distribution level, and they are natural innovation zones for the Smart Grid (SG) because they have experimentation scalability and flexibility, and delivers power is a local area. SG contains protection against the cyber attacks, interoperability and designed for pricing in real-time [1]. Super grid is a high voltage DC transmission and capacity to minimize losses and enhance reliability. MGs operates as a standalone or as a grid-connected system. Microgrid (MG) technology is not equipped with automation and communication support. Further work is required to enhance self-healing, reconfigurable, adaptive and predictive capability. MG includes special purpose inverters enabling it to link to the legacy grid and contains special purpose filters build to overcome issues with harmonics, while improving power quality and efficiency [2]. Various characteristics of SG include optimizing the asset utilization and efficient operation is presented in [3]. Increased renewable power penetration, electricity markets participation throughout the world will realize new opportunities for the cost-effective smart grids controls and energy storage at all scales. These changes, coupled with increased consumer awareness and participation will lead to a new paradigm in energy system analysis that must also be accounted for energy security, stability and reliability. The SG will incorporates new networking technology, including controls and sensors, from this the electricity can be monitored in real time and can be made automatic changes which will reduce the energy waste [4].

A wireless smart grid testbed in lab

2012

Abstract State-of-the-art Smart Grid design needs innovation in a number of dimensions: distributed and dynamic network with two-way information and energy transmission, seamless integration of renewable energy sources, management of intermittent power supplies, realtime demand response, and energy pricing strategy.

Smart Grid Concepts and Comparison WithTraditional Grid

2021

Smart Grid integrates the traditional Electric power grid with information and communication technology. The integration empowers electrical utilities provider and consumers to improve efficiency and availability of power system, while constantly monitoring, controlling, Demand of customers. This paper Deals with the concepts of smart grid, starting from introduction of smart grid, what is need of smart grid in today’s world and components used in smart grid. This paper attempted to give an overview about smart grid and concepts related to it and how it is different from traditional grid.

Electric grid versus data network architectures and standards SmartGrid as plug&play

IET Conference Publications, 2009

SmartGrid is the natural evolution for the control and optimization of electric grid operation, improving quality of service and reducing costs. The implementation of the SmartGrid means evolving the SCADA and DMS systems from systems that aid humans in the management of the power network to intelligent semiautonomous systems with a reduced human element. The introduction of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and Demand Response (DR) are changing the character of the electrical network managed by the new systems. Consumers pass from clients to active agents, contributing interactively [1] to network management and thus Quality of Service (QoS). This paper indicates how the new systems must use selfdescribing equipment, standardised data models and protocols, must integrate with other corporate systems as both information vendors and purchasers, to achieve these while maintaining high data quality with acceptable costs of data capture and maintenance

National Laboratory of Smart Grids (LAB+i) at the National University of Colombia-Bogota Campus

This paper describes the design and implementation of the National Laboratory of Smart Grids in the University Campus (LAB+i) with the real-time integration of electricity, water and/or gas systems through six layers of Smart Grids that allow to make measurement of a process, local or remote communication in order to be integrated to the supervision and management system. Likewise in the following layers of the LAB+i, information management processes, decision making, modeling of systems and processes that enable the development of optimum efficiency and productivity applications are made. LAB+i is designed as a testing platform of technologies associated with Smart Grids, developing prototypes of measurement systems and communication drivers related to Smart Grids for Smart Cities. Finally, the research capacities, technology and innovation development are presented, which the LAB+i laboratory would allow to include the incorporation of local business pilot projects to be optimized, adaptive technology testing, evaluation of local environmental conditions and their requirements. Index Terms-Smart Grids, distributed resources, sustainability, information and communication technologies (ICTs), Common Information Model (CIM), demand management, energy efficiency, productivity, smart cities.

Challenges in Implementing Smart Grid in Power Systems

International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Nano Technology (IJAENT), 2015

Electricity, considered by most to be energy, is actually an energy currency. Power collected from a variety of sources, such as falling water, burning fuel, wind and solar is used to create electricity for delivery to customers. Electricity has proven to be a convenient and efficient means of delivering energy. Electricity is delivered at the speed of light and is consumed the instant it is created. There is no means to store electricity without converting it to another form of energy. As a result, the demand for power, driven by users, must match the supply of power from the available sources (e.g. generators and energy storage devices) at all times. As the Smart Grid continues to evolve, and demandside management, which is available today, builds on its growing reputation as a cost-effective way for industrial users to manage energy usage and costs, buy-in from both residential and industrial consumers will become simpler. In this paper we have discussed use of ICT in Smart Grid, concept of Smart Grid, Goals and Objectives of Smart Grid, Characteristics of Smart Grid, Smart Grid Applications and Services, and Challenges in Smart Grid.

Development and application of a smart grid test bench

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017

The current upward trend in large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) in distribution networks has fueled interest in knowing their power quality issues (PQ), even in nearly realtime scale when possible. This trend involves researching new protection strategies that contribute to the reduction of supply interruptions times, which will ultimately result in greater energy efficiency. Based

A Comprehensive Study of Smart Grids

International Journal of Computer Applications, 2014

In this paper, various aspects of smart grids are described. These aspects include the components of smart grids, the detailed functions of the smart energy meters within the smart grids and their effects on increasing the awareness, the advantages and disadvantages of smart grids, and the requirements of utilizing smart grids. To put some light on the difference between smart grids and traditional utility grids, some aspects of the traditional utility grids are covered in this paper as well.