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What is Smart Grid?
 A DoE initiative that takes advantage of modern technologies to address
the growing and changing needs of customers.

 SmartGrids integrate communications networks with the power grid in

order to create an electricity-communications superhighway capable of
monitoring its own health at all times, alerting officials immediately when
problems arise and automatically taking corrective.

 Modern Technologies:
 Advanced Sensors  Advanced Components
 Communication  Improved Interfaces/Decision
 Advanced Control Devices Support

 Results:
 Distribute electricity more effectively all the way from transmission to
customer appliances.
 What is Smart Grid?
Three Key Areas

 Applications
 Communication
 Devices
What is Smart Grid?

 Modern Smart Grids should:

 Detect and address potential problems
 Acquire inputs from measurements over a rapid
communication network to diagnose problems and quickly
restore network stability.
 Automatically adapt protective systems to changing
network configuration
 Re-route power flows, change load patterns, improve
voltage, and correct network in a matter of seconds
 Enable distributed resources to participate in operations
 Improve reliability and security
 Provide advanced visualization tools to manage network
Why Smart Grid?

 Consider some of the economic consequences of power

losses:
 Power interruptions and disturbances cost the U.S.
electricity consumer at least $79 billion per year
 A recent rolling blackout caused an estimated $75
million in losses in Silicon Valley alone.
 When the Chicago Board of Trade lost power for an
hour during the summer of 2000, trades worth $20
trillion could not be executed.

 Our nation is increasingly held back by an outdated power

delivery infrastructure.
 The U.S. grid faces shortcomings in capacity,
reliability, security and power quality. Designed in the
1960s or much earlier, much of this critical national
asset is well beyond its design life.
Characteristics of SmartGrid
 Self-Healing
 Real-time self assessments to detect, analyze, respond, restore grid
components.
 Minimize interruption time
 Identification of problematic devices
 Communication with local/remote devices to analyze faults, low voltage, poor
power quality, overloads, and other negative conditions.
 Customer Demand Motivation
 Provide real-time information to consumers (cost/value)
 Demand Response (DR) to shift peak demand
 Real-time pricing
Characteristics of SmartGrid

 Resists Attack
 Minimizes consequences of attack
 Security protocols will include; deterrence, prevention,
detection, response, and mitigation.
 Technologies include; authentication, encryption,
intrusion detection, and filtering of alarms &
communication.
 Optimization of Assets Usage
 Network will work only as much as needed.
 Quality and capacity will be monitored in real-time.
 Equipment failure rates and maintenance cost reduced.
Integrated mapping, alarming, event & crew management

Personnel
Mapping Data & Unit Data

SCADA

Power System
Analysis

DATABASE
IVR & CIS

Audio KB/MOUSE

OPERATOR
Evolution to SmartGrid
Movement from Static Infrastructure and Operation
“As-Designed” to a Dynamic “Living” Infrastructure
and “Proactive” Delivery Management
 From:  To:
 Self Monitoring, Diagnosis &
 Manual Inspection & Reads
Reporting
 Periodic Maintenance  Prioritized Condition Based Predictive
Maintenance
 Upstream Control,
Stimulus/Response Protection,  Localized Distributed Decisions and
Manual Switching, & Trouble Automatic Response, Predictive
Response Avoidance

 General
 Time-Correlated Environment,
Knowledge of Related
Operational & Non-Operational
Environment Conditions
Information
 Physical Security  Intelligent Remote Monitoring &
Detection
Future Smart Grid?

 What will the Future Look Like?

 “SmartGrid means you fill up your car with hydrogen

but cannot drive it the next day, because your teenage
daughter has sold the hydrogen as electricity at peak
tariff over the internet, and used the proceeds to
charge her mobile phone card.”
Resources

Energy.gov

GridWise.org

TheModernGrid.org

SmartGridNews.com