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Power System main idea
• Electric power is one of the most
complex manmade systems on the earth
• It starts from generation through
transmission and distribution networks
to customers (residential, industrial,
commercial, etc.)
• Successful operation and control of
future power systems require
introducing more and more intelligent
devices to achieve higher levels of
reliability, security, efficiency and quality
of supply for better serving modern
societies in the advanced
communications, information and digital
age
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Main Features of Smart grid
• A smart grid aims to modernizing the
electric power delivery system so that
it can effectively monitor, protect and
automatically optimize the operation
of its interconnected elements
• Modernizations include all levels of
generation, transmission and
distribution systems to various types
of loads
• Intelligent devices will be available at
each component such as power
transformers, circuit breakers, lines
and electrical household appliances
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Main Advantages of Smart grid
▪Reduce greenhouse gases and pollutants by optimizing
and coordinating the operation of conventional and
renewable energy resources, thus providing more
environment-friendly energy systems.
▪Provide economic benefits to utilities by reduce
operational costs.
▪ Allow customers to gain economic benefits by accessing
to energy information and facilitating various price
choices
▪ Accelerate introduction of new technologies to
generation, transmission, distribution and load
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Main Advantages of Smart grid
▪Provide economic benefits to utilities by reduce operational costs
▪Allow customers to gain economic benefits by accessing to energy
information and facilitating various price choices
▪Accelerate introduction of new technologies to generation,
transmission, distribution and load.
▪Provide more efficient operation by optimizing:
– energy use,
– reducing peak demand,
– reducing losses,
– managing load, and allowing end-users to optimizing their
consumption by employing intelligent electronic devices
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Main Challenges of Smart grid
▪Appropriate transition to smart a grid
▪The need to coordinate between stakeholders
▪ Recognizing the complexity of smart grids
▪Ensuring cyber security by developing new policies and risk
assessment
▪ High-level training to cope with smart grids
▪Upgrading standards to cope with new concepts of smart grids
▪Promoting research and development in the field of new
technologies of smart grids
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Progress of Smart grid
▪Development of smart grids is currently one of the hottest
subjects in the field of power system over the world
▪ In Europe, USA, Japan and China huge investments have
been allocated to research, development and realization of
smart grids
▪ Boulder in Colorado is the first smart grid city in the world.
Homes in the city are equipped with the latest environment-
friendly, and energy saving technologies
▪These equipment include plug-in electric cars, solar panels,
heating, cooling and lighting systems
