2015

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Smart Grid System & Its Overview In
Bangladesh
The agenda of this paper is to discuss about the significance and
a detailed feasibility study of practical implementation of Smart
Grid System in Bangladesh.

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What is Smart Grid?

Short Answer: Smart Grid = IT + Electric Grid

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Traditional Power Grid

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Definition - What does Smart Grid mean?

A smart grid is an electricity network based on digital technology that is used to

supply electricity to consumers via two-way digital communication. This system
allows for monitoring, analysis, control and communication within the supply
chain to help improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption and cost, and
maximize the transparency and reliability of the energy supply chain. The smart
grid was introduced with the aim of overcoming the weaknesses of conventional
electrical grids by using smart net meters.

Many government institutions around the world have been encouraging the use of

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smart grids for their potential to control and deal with global warming, emergency
resilience and energy independence scenarios.

Anticipated Smart Grid Benefits

• 1. Improving Power Reliability and Quality
– Better monitoring using sensor networks and communications
– Better and faster balancing of supply and demand

• 2. Minimizing the Need to Construct Back-up (Peak Load) Power Plants

– Better demand side management

– The use of advanced metering infrastructures

• 3. Enhancing the capacity and efficiency of existing electric grid

– Better monitoring using sensor networks and communications
– Consequently, better control and resource management in real-time

• 4. Improving Resilience to Disruption and Being Self-Healing

– Better monitoring using sensor networks and communications

– Distributed grid management and control

• 5. Expanding Deployment of Renewable and Distributed Energy Sources

– Better monitoring using sensor networks and communications
– Consequently, better control and resource management in real-time

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– Better demand side Management
– Better renewable energy forecasting models

– Providing the infrastructure / incentives

• 6. Automating maintenance and operation

– Better monitoring using sensor networks and communications
– Distributed grid management and control
• 7. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
– Supporting / encouraging the use of electric vehicles

– Renewable power generation with low carbon footprint

• 8. Reducing oil consumption

– Supporting / encouraging the use of electric vehicles
– Renewable power generation with low carbon footprint
– Better demand side Management (Q: Why?)
• 9. Enabling transition to plug-in electric vehicles

– Can also provide new storage opportunities

10. Increasing consumer choice

– The use of advanced metering infrastructures
– Home automation
– Energy smart appliances

– Better demand side Management

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• Wireless Mesh Networking with Fiber Optic
Connectivity

Wireless Mesh Network

– Access Points
– Mesh Repeaters

• Automation
– Monitoring
– Control / Switching

Prospect of Smart Grid in Bangladesh

Energy shortage is a worldwide concern. Presently, more than 40 countries show power system
instability and load-shedding due to electricity shortage. North American and European

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companies are presently working on building 'smart electrical grid' technologies to optimize
energy flow using digital radios for more efficient electrical grid control and energy
conservation. The need to build Smart Grid technologies is rising worldwide and Bangladesh can
become a pioneer in this area of tech-neology development. Since energy demand is increasing
every year in Bangladesh, it is not possible to build power stations rapidly. Smart Grid system
can minimize this problem. In the event of load-shedding, caused by electrical energy shortage in
the country, the Smart Grid can automatically recalculate and distribute electricity to all
consumers fairly.
The basic needs to implement Smart Grid are digital radios, circuit breakers etc. Both digital
radios and circuit breakers are required to upgrade the operation of nation's electrical grid, which
can be designed and manufactured in Bangladesh in large scale. With the help of expatriate
Bangladeshi engineers, Bangladesh can start designing and manufacturing the electrical parts
required to up-grade the electricity grid in Bangladesh so that, Bangladesh can be an early
developer and adopter of the Smart Grid technology

Transmission Systems (TS)

• Midwest Energy Inc. Smart Grid Project, Hays, KS
• Nine Relay-based Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs)
• Synchrophasor Communications Network
• Advanced transmission applications for synchrophasors:
– Angle and frequency monitoring
– Post-mortem analysis (disturbances and system failures)
– Voltage and voltage stability monitoring
– Improved state estimation
– Steady-state benchmarking

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Smart Grid Priority Areas

Eight Priority Areas to Build a Smart Grid

1. Demand Response and Consumer Energy Efficiency

2. Wide‐Area Situational Awareness
3. Energy Storage
4. Electric Transportation
5. Advanced Metering Infrastructure
6. Distribution Grid Management
7. Cyber Security
8. Network Communications

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Thank You

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