Development Of Smart Grid Technologies

In recent years, the US has come to realize the weaknesses in the US power supply. The power infrastructure in the country is very old; and because of the increase in power usage within the US, the power grid is becoming weaker and more prone to security issues. Because of the uncertainty in the power system, some major US companies have moved their data systems to other countries in order to better protect themselves by using forms of renewable energy (Rhodes 2013). The US

The smart distribution transformer and its controllers were evaluated through simulations using PLECS simulation platform. The system specifications used to design the simulation model are given in Table 3.

Accordingly, this document has been developed to provide information regarding DTL Power and the measures that have been developed and implemented to safeguard its information and information systems from a cyber threat. This document is broken down into several sections that will provide an analysis of DTL Power and the energy sector; as well as the effectiveness of cybersecurity technology/policies in the energy sector, the team’s cyber strategy, and budget.

The 2003 northeast blackout that saw about 50 million people from the northeast US and southeast Canada lose power for about 2 days at the cost of $6 billion dollars according to JR Minkel (Minkle) and was the biggest blackout in North American history (Minkle). The disaster lead to a report that showed the blackout was caused by a combination of human error and equipment failure. To prevent issues like this in the future a “smart grid” needs to be developed that would monitor and repair itself in the event of problems. Essentially computers and applications would be the first responder when there is an equipment failure on the grid. The problem with this solution is that by placing more of the control of the power grid into the hands of computers and applications, it opens up the grid to cyber-attacks. The economic impact of a total or even partial failure of the power grid is astronomical and makes a very appealing target to those who wish to cause

The DOE was established to organize disjointed regulatory processes and create a national energy plan (Kuder et al., 2010). One of the main functions of the DOE is to monitor and report on the security of the smart grid. The primary objective of the reports are to provide data that may be

the entire application life cycle and controls all Relion protection at all voltage levels. This

Since we already have the technology to build a grid that is more resilient and less of a target for adversaries, all Americans need to push for this to remain a priority and find ways to support legislation for a rebuilding of the infrastructure system. With companies such as Intel who are in the energy and security sectors but also researching artificial intelligence and self automated vehicles and robots, there is a possibility that a rebuilding of the infrastructure system is plausible. With individuals boarding millions of dollars into creating “smart cities” who knows what opportunities can occur. As of this writing, just

According to the case study written by Jurek, Bras, Guldberg, D’Arcy, Oh, and Biller, energy costs were steadily rising and were predicted to continue this trend going into the future. At the same time, utility companies were beginning to implement Smart Grid technologies to increase the efficiency of energy distribution. One resulting program to emerge from

The IoT’s job is becoming more vital in rendering access to devices and machines which existed manufacturing systems are hidden in well-designed storage towers (silos). This advancement can allow the IT further to come into the digitized manufacturing systems. The entire range of applications which can run around the production shall be connected to factory via the IoT. This would range from connecting the factory to the smart grid and sharing the production facility as a service. In this context, the production system would be though as one of the many IoTs. A new ecosystem for smarter and more efficient generation could be defined.

The use of IoT has already impacted the way cities operate. The term smart cities, is used to describe a city that possesses an IoT oriented infrastructure. “In a smart city, the digital technologies translate into better public services for inhabitants and better use of resources while reducing environmental impacts”. [3] For a smart city to be feasible, IoT must provide intelligence, interconnection, and instrumentation. Wi-Fi-enabled smart devices and low-cost sensors are components of the smart city and allow devices a way to communicate with the public via the internet. These devices collect real-time data, which not only improves the lives of residents, but transforms several sectors of public service as well. Transportation has been revolutionized by smart traffic management systems which gather data from an array of magnetic road sensors and hundreds of cameras. The result is less delay at major stop lights and increased travel speeds, because enabled drivers can see which lights are busy and monitor these areas for other vehicles and pedestrians. To lower traffic and driver search times for parking spots, parking sensors that detect parking-spaces for drivers are installed in major cities. Street lights use a method of energy saving known as adaptive lighting which enables them to determine their brightness setting, appropriate for a given situation. The smart city solution to conserving energy is through smart girds. A smart grid serves several energy management

National Grid is one of the many electric power transmission network and gas companies that serve customers and businesses by using the most reliable and efficiently clean energy for which millions of customers benefit and depend on. The Company has its foundation in the UK and Northeastern US. Its objective is to provide the best performance and reliability to the customers, expand and growth the services throughout many states in the United States. As a whole the company is striving for success by using and developing the talents within the within the organization, new skills and capabilities to compete with others electric companies.

B. Gupta et al. (2007) [32] Currently distributes systems support different computing paradigms like Cluster Computing, Grid Computing, Peer-to-Peer Computing, and Cloud Computing all involving elements of heterogeneity. These computing distributed systems are often characterized by a variety of resources that may or may not be coupled with specific platforms or environments. All these topics challenge today researchers, due to the strong dynamic behaviour of the user communities and of resource collections they use.

Significant changes in the structure of a low voltage distribution system can be achieved by developing "microgrids" [2] coupled with appropriate energy storage and energy management technologies. This will ensure the microgrid to achieve the capability to operate off-grid or grid connection or interact with other microgrids. These features ensure a better power quality, reduce stress of transmission lines, increase power efficiency, minimize the risk of blackout, and other related problems.

Abstract—To meet the Electric Power demands of a fast expanding economy, smart grid (SG) are expected to have reliable, efficient, secured and cost-effective power management system. Additionally, energy demands from the users change dynamically in different time-periods (such as on-peak , and off-peak) , which required dynamically availability of the communication facility (such as bandwidth , storage devices and processing units). Therefore, there is a need to integrate to a common platform with the smart grid which is able to support the smart grid requirements.

The topic of this project is hardware-implementation of communication platform for consensus-based control in power systems. Because of the capacity of existing electric power distribution is nearly full, it is a trend to develop grid technology and enhance the intelligent level of power system [1]. Therefore, it is necessary to integrate and coordinate distributed generation (DG) effectively. Development of smart grid is becoming a popular and inevitable trend. The development of distributed generation has changed the traditional mode of power supply and utilization. And intelligent control of electrical devices can minimize the power consumption and reduce the operating cost. It is much economic and energy conservation.