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Abstract Effective deployment of Smart Grid technologies

requires well-defined and quantified benefits (full-value
definition). Depending on the region, country or specific
stakeholder, these benefits can be quantified in the areas of
technical and business performance, environmental goals,
security of electricity supply, and macro-economic growth and
business sustainability development. One of the key components
to effectively enable full-value realization is technology--the wide
range of technical functionalities and capabilities deployed and
integrated as one cohesive end-to-end solution supported by a
scalability, interoperability and adaptability approach.
Many smart grid projects deploy a wide range of smart grid
technologies which are driven by regional, country, or utility
specific objectives and requirements. These technologies can be
broadly captured under the following areas:
Low Carbon: e.g. large-scale renewable generation, distributed
energy resources (DER), electric vehicles (EV), carbon capture
and sequestration (CCS).
Grid Performance: e.g. advanced distribution and substation
automation (self-healing); wide-area adaptive protection
schemes (special protection schemes); wide-area monitoring
and control systems (PMU-based situational awareness); asset
performance optimization and conditioning (CBM); dynamic
rating; advanced power electronics (e.g. FACTS, intelligent
inverters, etc.) and many others.
Grid Enhanced Applications: e.g. distribution management
systems (DMS); energy management systems (EMS); outage
management systems (OMS); demand response (DR);
advanced applications to enable active voltage and reactive
power management (IVVC, CVVC); advanced analytics to
support operational, non-operational and BI decision making;
distributed energy resource management; microgrid and
Virtual Power Plant (VPP); work force management;
geospatial asset management (GIS); KPI dashboards and
advanced visualization; and many others.
Customer: e.g. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI);
home/building automation (HAN); energy management
systems and display portals; EV charging stations; smart
appliances and many others.
Cyber Security and Data Privacy
Communication and Integration Infrastructure

Many smart grid technology areas span across the entire electric
grid from generation, through transmission and distribution
infrastructure all the way down to a wide array of electricity
consumers.


J. Romero Agero (julio@quanta-technology.com) is with Quanta
Technology, 4020, Westchase Blvd. Suite 300, Raleigh, NC, 27607.
The objective of this presentation is to discuss deployment of
wide-range of advanced technologies and solutions across many
smart grid projects globally. In addition, practical lessons-
learned from the deployment and operations will be presented.

Index TermsSmart Grid, Advanced Grid Solutions and
Technologies, Deployment & Lessons Learned
Deployment of Advanced Smart Grid Solutions
Global Examples & Lessons Learned
Dr Bartosz Wojszczyk, Member
978-1-4577-2159-5/12/$31.00 2011 IEEE