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Smart and Power Grid Systems - Design Challenges and Paradigms (Hardcover)
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Smart and Power Grid Systems - Design Challenges and Paradigms (Hardcover)
Series: River Publishers Series in Power
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The Smart Grid represents an unprecedented opportunity to move the
energy industry into a new era of reliability, availability, and
efficiency that will contribute to our economic and environmental
health. During the transition period, it will be critical to carry
out testing, technology improvements, consumer education,
development of standards and regulations, and information sharing
between projects to ensure that the benefits we envision from the
Smart Grid become a reality. Today, an electricity disruption such
as a blackout can have a domino effect-a series of failures that
can affect banking, communications, traffic, and security. This is
a particular threat in the winter, when homeowners can be left
without heat. A smarter grid will add resiliency to our electric
power system and make it better prepared to address emergencies
such as severe storms, earthquakes, large solar flares, and
terrorist attacks. Because of its two-way interactive capacity, the
Smart Grid will allow for automatic rerouting when equipment fails
or outages occur. This will minimize outages and minimize the
effects when they do happen. When a power outage occurs, Smart Grid
technologies will detect and isolate the outages, containing them
before they become large-scale blackouts. The new technologies will
also help ensure that electricity recovery resumes quickly and
strategically after an emergency-routing electricity to emergency
services first, for example. In addition, the Smart Grid will take
greater advantage of customer-owned power generators to produce
power when it is not available from utilities. By combining these
"distributed generation" resources, a community could keep its
health center, police department, traffic lights, phone system, and
grocery stores operating during emergencies. In addition, the Smart
Grid is a way to address an aging energy infrastructure that needs
to be upgraded or replaced. This book shows that Smart Grids can
address energy efficiency, to bring increased awareness to
consumers about the connection between electricity use and the
environment, bring increased national security to our energy
system-drawing on greater amounts of home-grown electricity that is
more resistant to natural disasters and attack.
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