Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and Navigant Consulting recently released a white paper 1 documenting the interim results of an economic assessment for smart grid technologies in the Pacific Northwest. The study, called the Regional Business Case (RBC), is the first bottom-up assessment to account for the interactions of various technologies and quantify the uncertainties and risks of reg...

The integration of renewable energy resources is challenging the traditional electricity network. To manage this, the smart grid has been defined as a cyber-physical system consisting of a physical component, which is the electricity grid, and a computational component consisting of a communication network, metering network, and software components. Therefore, the smart grid can not just be see...

Smart Grid is the trend of next generation electrical power system which makes the power grid intelligent and energy efficient. It requires high level of network reliability to support the two-way communication among electrical services, electrical units such as smart meters, and applications. The wireless mesh network infrastructure can provide redundant routes for the Smart Grid communication...

Forecasting already plays a crucial role in the current electricity grid as a key part of planning and energy management activities. Its role will be pivotal in the envisioned smart grid, as its stakeholders are expected to interact in realtime. The amount of data to be considered e.g., from the smart meters, will sky-rocket; however consistently accurate forecasting will still be needed in ord...

An effective design of Smart Grid (SG) must include robust combined sensing, efficient Communication and elegant control system, so a vigorous network is the core requirement of a Smart Grid keeping in view the concepts of sensor networks and electrical and topological properties of distribution system. Two-way communication is the most effective way of transceiving the data on both sides; towa...

This paper describes the first steps taken by the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society in defining their contributions to the Smart Grid concept. Keywords-Smart Grid, IEEE DEIS, diagnostics, monitoring, electrical insulation

Electric utilities and regulators face difficult challenges evaluating new energy efficiency and smart grid programs prompted, in large part, by recent state and federal mandates and financial incentives. It is increasingly difficult to separate electricity use impacts of individual utility programs from the impacts of increasingly stringent appliance and building efficiency standards, increasi...

The evolution of current centralized generation in the form of distributed generation and Smart Grids provide a great opportunity to eradicate several issues associated with energy efficiency, energy security, power quality and the drawback of aging power system infrastructures. In order to meet the rising electrical power demand and increase service quality as well as reduce pollution, the exi...

Sensor networks and the Internet of Things have driven the evolution of traditional electric power distribution networks towards a new paradigm referred to as Smart Grid. However, the different elements that compose the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) layer of a Smart Grid are usually conceived as isolated systems that typically result in rigid hardware architectures which are...

This paper studies the security requirements for remote authentication and communication in smart grid systems. Though smart card based authentication techniques have been a successful solution for addressing key management challenges in several cryptographic authentication systems, they may not be applicable to smart grid systems. For example, in order to unlock the credentials stored in tampe...