Smart grid presentation by Muhammad Usman Tahir student of Electrical Engineering in UET Lhr

1. Presentation on the White paper
“SMART GRID : A VIEW FROM
SYMANTEC”
Tom Thomassen
Senior Development Manager
Office of the CTO
Presenter: Muhammad Usman Tahir
2012-EE-314

2. ABOUT SYMANTEC:
• Symantec Corporation is an American
technology company headquartered
in California ,United States.
• The company makes security, storage, backup
and availability software .
• Symantec offers professional services to
support its software.
• Symantec provide its services in 40 countries.

3. ABOUT AUTHOR:
• Tom Thomassen is a Development Manager
in Symantec Corporation.
• He is responsible for several cross-company
technical initiatives as well as Green and
Smart Grid standards.
• He is the Symantec representative in NIST ,
SGIP .

4. CONTENTS:
• Summary
• Introduction
• What is the Smart Grid ?
• Challenges
• Symentec Solutions
• Conclusions

5. SUMMARY :
 The Smart Grid has the potential to
• Fundamentally transform Generation,
Transmission, Distribution and Consumption of
energy .
• Increasing efficiency of the Power system.
• Enabling consumer control over demand .
• Increasing visibility for energy suppliers.

6. INTRODUCTION :
• A smart grid is a modernized electrical grid
that uses
A) Analog or Digital Information
B) Communication Technology
to gather and act on the information in an
automated fashion to improve the efficiency,
reliability, economics, and sustainability of the
power system.

7. The Smart Grid is the most Significant
change in the Electrical Grid in 100 years.
Smart grid is not a technology but a vision
to transform the existing power grid in to a
very effective and efficient system which
shall benefit both utility and the consumer.
Smart Grid affects power and process
manufacturing industries across the board

8. What is Smart Grid ?

9. What is Smart Grid ?

10. SMART GRID ELEMENTS
1) Utility Data Center
2) Utility Operations Control Centers
3) Field: SCADA/Substations for Generation,
Transmission and Distribution
4) AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure.
5) HAN – Home Area Network

11. Challenges Associated
with
Smart Grid

12. Challenges Associated With
Smart Grid :
Privacy
Cyber Security
Data Deluge
Insider Risk
Reliability
Visibility and Transparency
Operations Complexity

14. Symentec Solutions :

17.  Conclusions:
We must keep in mind that with transformational
initiatives like Smart Grid, that there are a lot of
challenges associated with them.
Smart Grid utilizes new and transformational
technologies and processes, but many of the challenges
generated by the deployment of the Smart Grid are
known problems for which solutions exist .
Smart Grid provides intelligent and advanced power
system control for the coming years.

18. Facts and Figures

19. Global Trends
Country National Smart Grid Initiatives
China The Chinese government has developed a large, long-term stimulus plan to invest in
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water systems, rural infrastructures and power grids, including a substantial investment
in smart grids.
China’s State Grid Corporation outlined plans in 2010 for a pilot smart grid programme
that maps out deployment to 2030. Smart grids investments will reach at least USD 96
billion by 2020.
United States USD 4.5 billion was allocated to grid modernisation under the American Recovery
Reinvestment Act of 2009, including:
• USD 3.48 billion for the quick integration of proven technologies into existing electric
grid infrastructure
• USD 435 million for regional smart grid demonstrations
 USD 185 million for energy storage and demonstrations
Japan The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan is developing a smart grid that
incorporates solar power generation by 2020 with government investment of over USD
100 million.

20. Global Trends
Country National Smart Grid Initiatives
United Kingdom OFGEM has set up a Low Carbon Networks fund that will allow up to GPB 500m support to
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distribution network operator projects that test new technology, operating and commercial
arrangements.
France The electricity distribution operator EDF is deploying 300000 smart meters in a pilot
project based on an advanced communication protocol named Linky. If the pilot is deemed
a success, ERDF will replace all of its 35 million meters with Linky smart meters from 2012 to
2016.
Brazil Several utilities are managing smart grid pilots, including Ampla, a power distributor in Rio
de Janeiro State owned by the Spanish utility Endesa, which has been deploying smart
meters and secure networks to reduce losses from illegal connections. AES Eletropaulo, a
distributor in São Paulo State, has developed a smart grid business plan using the existing
fibre-optic backbone.
The utility CEMIG has started a smart grid project based on system architecture developed
by the IntelliGrid Consortium, an initiative of the California-based Electric Power Research
Institute.

21. THANK YOU