Smart Grid Utilization of modern technology in agriculture

HVDC Technology and Smart Grid

Smart Grid is much more than IT and smart meters. A SmartGrid is an electricity network that can intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to it – generators, consumers and those that do both – in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity. This article first gives a background to HVDC Transmission Technology in general, and secondly describes how...

Utilization and Customer Behavior: Smart Choices for the Smart Grid

The smart grid offers a wide array of opportunities to improve efficiency of the electricity grid via load management policies. This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge in the economics literature as it relates to time-varying pricing and to behavioral interventions, which together comprise a large portion of regulators’ policy choice set. The authors present evidence that consumers ...

Power Electronics Technology that Supports Smart Grid

† Fuji Electric Co., Ltd following a parallel off (2) Isolated operation detection function An isolated operation detection function is essential for connecting to a power system. Isolated operation is the state in which an isolated system that has been disconnected from the power system is supplied with electricity from the output of a distributed power source only. In the isolated operating s...

Smart Grid Technology, Vision, Management and Control

Energy supply has become one of the most challenging issues facing the world in the 21st Century. Growing populations, more homes and businesses and a myriad of new appliances have caused energy demand to skyrocket in every part of the country. The fundamental method of operating the nation’s power grid has not changed much in the past 100 years. It has remained essentially the same, although t...

Electric Springs - A New Smart Grid Technology