Global Trends and Advances Towards a Smarter Grid and Smart Cities

O.p Malik

doi:10.3390/fi12020037

Abstract

Taking advantage of new developing technologies, power systems are being developed into smarter grids with the vision of becoming the next-generation electric grid for smart cities. Some of the emerging issues and challenges associated with the development of technologies for smarter grids and smart cities are highlighted in this special issue of the Future Internet journal.

Highlights

Taking advantage of the new developing technologies, one main thrust in research and development in electric power systems at the academic, industry, business and government levels in the past few years has been to make power systems smarter
When coupled with smart metering systems, such grids connect consumers/prosumers with suppliers while providing information on real-time consumption. This ensures effective matching of supply and demand by utilizing data that optimizes efficiency and enables the use of environmentally friendly power generation and storage. It will enable the smart integration of conventional electric power generation, renewable generation, distributed generation, energy storage, transmission, distribution and demand management to ensure a dependable and sustainable supply of electricity
The automatic generation control (AGC) mechanism in power systems, which comes into operation whenever an over-supply or under-supply of energy occurs in a power system, is vulnerable to load altering attacks that can disrupt AGC mechanism

Summary

Introduction

Taking advantage of the new developing technologies, one main thrust in research and development in electric power systems at the academic, industry, business and government levels in the past few years has been to make power systems smarter. Automatic monitoring of energy flows in smart energy networks will enable them to adjust to changes in energy supply and demand. This ensures effective matching of supply and demand by utilizing data that optimizes efficiency and enables the use of environmentally friendly power generation and storage.

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