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SMART GRID

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CONTENT
• Introduction
• What is Smart Grid??
• Who are using Smart Grid?
• How Smart Grid is used?
• Comparison
• Smart Grid components
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Smart Grid Future
WHAT IS SMART GRID?
 An intelligent electricity- delivery system:
 energy suppliers and consumers: interconnect through a
network
 Smart meters:
 are installed at homes and business
 monitor energy consumption
 transmit that information back to energy providers
 Energy providers :
 track energy consumption
 automatically throttle down energy consumption on a
granular level when demand gets too high.
WHO ARE USING SMART
GRID?

 Individual consumers

 Corporate participation

 Government regulators
 HOW SMART GRID IS
USED?
 Foster communication between the energy
company and the end consumer

 Electricity is sent from:

Energy Distribution destination
company center

 Allows energy companies to track areas of

high use, identify possible outages, and
provide the proper service.
COMPARISON
SMART GRID
COMPONENTS
 SMART METER

 PHASOR MEASUREMENT

 INFORMATION TRANSFER

 DISTRIBUTED GENERATION
SMART METER

 RECOGNIZES AND DETAILS ELECTRIC

CONSUMPTION


 RELAYS INFORMATION TO CENTRAL

MONITORING STATIONS

 WILL REPLACE TRADITIONAL METERS

WORKING OF SMART
GRID
ADVANTAGES OF SMART
GRID
 Reduces the cost of blackouts $$$

 Helps measure and reduce energy

consumption and costs

 Helps businesses reduce their carbon

footprint

 Opens up new opportunities for tech

companies meaning more jobs
 DISADVANTAGES OF
SMART GRID
 Biggest concern: security and privacy
 Smart Grid: use
 automated meters,
 two-way communications: between a power
consumer and provider
 and advanced sensors

 Some types of meters can be hacked

 Hacker:
 gain control of thousands, even millions, of
meters
 increase or decrease the demand for power
DISADVANTAGES (cont.)
 Not simply a single component

 Various technology components:

 software, the power generators, system
integrators, etc.

 Expensive for consumer: $60 per month

 WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
 Fastest growing business in the Green-Tech market

 Was included in Obama’s stimulus bill

 U.S. Congress “act without delay”

 Very few companies invest and utilize: Austin

Energy (Texas) and Pacific Gas & Electric
(California)
SMART GRID FUTURE
 In the near future, will not be any vast
development

 Risky because of financial demands and

regulations

 In the long-run, attitudes will change, wide

spread usage of the smart grid from every
business to every home just like the
Internet
CONCLUSION
 Smart Grid is a concept  designed to
provide electricity in more efficient way
by better allocating electricity according
to consumer’s wants.
 It integrated multiple energy sources
and avoid over-generation as well.
 In foreign countries, namely the UK and
USA, started to implement as they see it
as a solution of energy and environment
pressure in their own country.
REFERENCE
 www.google.com
 www.wikipedia.org
 www.studymafia.org
Thanks