Agents for Smart Power Grids

Toward Smart Power Grids: Communication Network Design for Power Grids Synchronization

In smart power grids, keeping the synchronicity of generators and the corresponding controls is of great importance. To do so, a simple model is employed in terms of swing equation to represent the interactions among dynamics of generators and feedback control. In case of having a communication network available, the control can be done based on the transmitted measurements by the communication...

Power trading coordination in smart grids

Datacenter Power Management in Smart Grids

Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm and it is gaining wide popularity due to its benefits including reduced cost, ease of management, and increased reliability. In a cloud computing environment, companies or individuals offload their computing (hardware/software/data) to the cloud, which is supported by the computing infrastructure called datacenters. Datacenters consume large amounts o...

Power Quality aspects of Smart Grids

This paper gives an overview of the smart grids developments, seen from a power-quality viewpoint; describes the main relations between smart grids and power quality, and goes into some detail for some of the aspects. Different types of real and virtual energy storage are distinguished. Power-quality monitoring in the smart grid is discussed in detail. Further aspects discussed in the paper are...

Smart Power Grids Security: Smart Meters and Home Gateway Scenarios

This paper gives an overview of the security issues regarding power grids. It is targeted to use case scenarios, namely smart metering, and home gateway for applications like electric cars and home multimedia contents distribution over the power grid. The scenarios are described, the architectural model of the smart power grid is described at a high level, the actors and data types are identifi...