Smart Grid Innovation Research Articles

Advanced Controller System with Hybrid Renewable Sources Enabling Vehicle-To-Grid and Grid-To-Vehicle Operations

Power demand is rising worldwide, forcing the search for an alternative source to solve the imminent power crisis, which is expected to be accomplished through the deployment of grid synchronized electric vehicles (EV). Wind and solar energy are incorporated into this integration to those concerns. One smart grid innovation that permits energy exchange between the EV and the grid is vehicle to grid (V2G) technology. For the purpose of charging EVs, this research proposes employing hybrid energy. Here, the neighboring household’s linear and non linear demands are powered by the excess electricity from the photovoltaics (PV) panel, wind turbine, and AC generator that is utilized to charge the EV battery. Because of its dependability and independence from the real system model, a proportional integral (PI) controller is used to maximize the DC voltage extracted from the PV panel. The improved DC voltage overall is a result of the SEPIC converter’s improved DC output. Concurrently, an AC generator is incorporated into the system to supply extra power to the grid. An artificial neural network (ANN) controller is used to convert the power generated by the PV panel’s Sepic conversion process into an improved output that is then converted to AC using a 3 phase Voltage Source Inverter (VSI). Harmonic components in the VSI output are corrected with an LC filter to ensure grid compatibility and safe current injection into the grid. This paper discusses the usage of a bidirectional converter to adjust the EV battery’s voltage. MATLAB 2021a / Simulink software is used to simulate and validate the proposed approach.

Promoting Sustainable Development Through Environmental Policy, Green Technologies, and Effective Waste Management: A Comprehensive Review

Sustainable development is a global imperative achieved through environmentally conscious policies, green technology adoption, and efficient waste management. This comprehensive review examines the intertwined roles of environmental policy, green technologies, and waste management in advancing sustainability. It investigates the significance of policy and governance in setting environmental standards, emphasizes green technologies' transformative potential, explores renewable energy integration, delves into sustainable urban planning, and underscores effective waste management. Environmental policy and governance establish the framework for environmental protection, necessitating robust policies and penalties. Green technologies drive sustainability by curbing emissions and optimizing resource use across sectors. Integrating renewables demands smart grid innovation for stability. Sustainable urban planning fosters eco-friendly cities with energy-efficient buildings, public transit, and waste strategies. Waste management policies encourage reduction, recycling, and safe disposal. Aligning policy, green tech, and waste management is pivotal for sustainable development.

Scalability and Replicability for Smart Grid Innovation Projects and the Improvement of Renewable Energy Sources Exploitation: The FLEXITRANSTORE Case

In this paper, detailed scalability and replicability plans have been developed to facilitate the adoption of innovation technologies in the pan-EU market. Smart grid development must enable both information and power exchange between suppliers and customers, thanks to the enormous innovation in intelligent communication, monitoring, and management systems. Implementing physical infrastructure alone is not enough, but a smart grid must include new business models and new regulations. In recent years, the number, participants, and scope of smart grid initiatives have increased, with different goals and results. FLEXITRANSTORE project integrates hardware and software solutions in all areas of the transmission system and wholesale markets, unleashing the potential for full flexibility of power systems and promoting the penetration of renewable energy sources and pan-EU markets. Full deployment of these demonstrated solutions requires a reasonable level of scalability and replicability to prevent project demonstrators from continuing local experimental exercises. Scalability and replicability are fundamental requirements for successful scaling-up and replication. Therefore, scalability and replicability enable or at least reduce barriers to the growth and reuse of project demonstrator results.

Evaluating the Flexibility Benefits of Smart Grid Innovations in Transmission Networks

The decision-making process during system planning of power systems is something that requires integrated tools that evaluate technical parameters, environmental impact, and overall costs and benefits with various performance indicators (i.e., key performance indicators KPIs). Several cost–benefit analysis approaches have been presented worldwide, providing analytic procedures to quantify the impact and practical effects of specific electricity projects. The implementation of innovation technology into the electricity networks play a critical role to optimizing overall costs. The targets set by the Clean Energy Package have been the main driver for the disruption occurring in the electricity sector, setting electrification of sectors and digitalization as additional emerging challenges. In the present paper, an evaluation approach for the flexibility benefits of smart grid innovations will be presented, as it has been developed and implemented in the context of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation project FLEXITRANSTORE. Flexibility is a prerequisite in an effort to achieve an electrical system of low CO2 emissions. Moreover, flexibility contributes to the increase of renewable energy sources penetration, to the network investments deferral and to the enhancement of the efficiency of the system operation, avoiding generation capacity oversizing. Thus, flexibility has been the scope of many projects lately. FLEXITRANSTORE pilot projects are implemented in various sites across Europe and are briefly presented and the respective technologies are propagated on system level approach, evaluating the respective benefits on a specific use case for the power system of Cyprus, where the one of the pilots is located. The paper tries to show the big picture of the project and presents system study use case to highlight the system impacts of the technologies. To this direction, the installation of a BESS to the Cypriot power system is studied, in an effort to examine its impact to the enhancement of the system’s flexibility, considering IRRE as an indicator.

Industrial innovation characteristics and spatial differentiation of smart grid technology in China based on patent mining

Based on the perspective of smart grid patent, this study crawls the smart grid patent data from 2009 to 2020, and extracts the hotspots of innovation space in different stages. By mining the patent information, this paper identifies the hot innovation fields of smart grid in China and the world, and selects IPC classifications of H02J, G01R and H04L as the main hot smart grid technologies for innovation space analysis. In further study, methods such as global autocorrelation analysis are used to comprehensively analyze the spatial distribution of smart grid innovation in China. It is found that innovation activities of China's smart grid industry are spatially agglomerated. However, during 2017–2020, such spatial distribution represents China's smart grid industry has approached the distribution pattern of normal innovation industries which tends to be discrete or competitive. According to autocorrelation analysis, China's smart grid innovation space has obvious agglomeration characteristics, showing a gradual decline trend from the center to the periphery, and the diffusion effect has initially appeared. Finally, the smart grid patent statistics and the spatial ellipse parameters intuitively present the innovation characteristics of China's smart grid industry in terms of the evolution of the spatial differentiation during 2009–2012, 2013–2016, and 2017–2020.

A complex network approach for analyzing early evolution of smart grid innovations in Europe

This paper investigates how the strategic decisions of innovative firms to collaborate with other firms in research and development projects shape the early evolution of smart grid technologies as an emerging technological system across Europe. The early innovations and developments in an emerging technological system are crucial for understanding further developments of the system. This early stage is highly influenced by the strategic decisions and lobbying power of the firms experimenting with different technological innovations, and the policies trying to maintain competition and steer the direction of innovative activities. Therefore, it is important to analyze how innovative firms behave in terms of collaborating with other firms and doing research on specific energy solutions, which reflect their strategic priorities. By taking a complex network approach, this paper investigates a network of smart grid R&D projects to analyze the convergence of smart grid research activities towards a stream of innovative solutions, and the variety of innovative activities branching out from these solutions. The results verify the convergence of smart grid activities towards one specific stream of innovations, and reveal the existence of four variations centered around different technological applications. The results can guide strategy development in innovative firms to take part in research collaborations or focus on specific smart energy technologies, and have implications for policy makers aiming to influence the direction of smart grid research programs, as well as for researchers in the field of smart grid innovation and technological innovation systems.

Cross-jurisdictional construction waste material trading: Learning from the smart grid

Construction waste materials are resources misplaced. Trading them across different jurisdictions is an innovative way to reuse or recycle the materials, which in turn obtains “cleaner production” in the construction sector. It can achieve a win-win situation between the demand and supply sides, but several hurdles must be overcome first. A particular hurdle is that demand and supply of such materials arises sporadically in discrete sites, thereby matching the two sides is not always opportune. We find parallels in the energy sector, where smart grids have been developed to store power generated sporadically by small producers and distribute it to individual users based on their (erratic) needs. Learning from smart grids, this research aims to shed light on innovative institutional arrangements promoting the development of an effective cross-jurisdictional construction waste material trading market. Underpinning this research is a mixed-method approach including cross-sectoral learning and a case study encompassing a series of site visits and semi-structured interviews in China’s Greater Bay Area. By comparing the commonalities between electricity and construction waste in terms of production, market, transmission, distribution, and consumption, we elaborate smart grid innovations and their possible applications to construction waste materials trading. Our research contributes to the body of knowledge on waste management, the circular economy, and the sharing economy. It will help establish a cross-jurisdictional waste material trading market in the Greater Bay Area. It also provides useful references to other regions in searching solutions for waste trading/sharing.

A Review of the Smart Grid Concept for Electrical Power System

The review this article conducts is an extensive analysis of the concept of a smart grid framework with the most sophisticated smart grid innovation and some basic information about smart grid soundness. Smart grids as a new scheme for energy and a future generation framework encourages the expansion of information and progress. The smart grid framework concord will potentially take years. In this article, the focus is on developing smart networks within the framework of electric power systems.

Governance of interactions between infrastructure sectors: The making of smart grids in the UK

This paper uses historical analysis to explore the evolution of interdependencies between the electricity and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors in the UK. It explores the role of governance in shaping the interface between these two sectors, and subsequent implications for smart grid innovation. The analysis focuses on three periods between 1940 and 2016, with distinct institutional logics: state ownership, privatisation, and transitions to sustainability.The interactions between the electricity and ICT sectors are analysed through Raven and Verbong’ (2007) typology: competition, symbiosis, integration and spill-over, drawing on social-technical transitions theories and discussed in terms of rules and institutions; actors and networks; and technology, artefacts and infrastructures of socio-technical regimes.The paper finds that a way to encourage more spill-overs and integration between the electricity and the ICT sector is through a more symmetrical and integrated governance approach that takes into account the needs and characteristics of both sectors.

Situational awareness of coherency behavior of synchronous generators in a power system with utility-scale photovoltaics

The smart grid innovation targets at the problems of integrating large portion of intermittent generation resources such as utility-scale and rooftop photovoltaics (PVs), while ensuring both the security and reliability of the electric power grid operation during severe disturbances. To enhance the operators’ performance, the information processing of the large-scale widely interconnected electric power grid needs to be simplified and presented with situational awareness (SA) in a meaningful way, for timely response by the system operators in control centers. Coherency group identification separates the generators in the system into groups that feature similar behavior, which is a method for grid simplification. Meanwhile, wide area measurement systems (WAMS) using data from phasor measurement units (PMUs) provides a solution – enhanced situational awareness to power operation control centers addressing the concerns of capturing and transmitting dynamic data in near real-time. Based upon these technologies, a synchrophasor based identification of generator coherency groups and new visualizations for SA are proposed and developed for online application with using K-harmonic means clustering. Furthermore, a generator vulnerability index (GVI) and a corresponding power system vulnerability index (SVI) are proposed based on the dynamic coherency groups identified. These indices alert system operators on the coherency behavior of the synchronous generators in the system for variations of PV power and/or under severe system disturbances. Typical results are provided for four different disturbances including sudden PV power increase and decrease, unexpected bus faults on major tie-line (inter-area) transmission corridors. In summary, new algorithms, indices and visualization tools have been developed to enhance SA and provide actionable information to system operators in control centers in the presence of variable utility-scale PV power in a power system.

Is the Resource Man coming home? Engaging with an energy monitoring platform to foster flexible energy consumption in the Netherlands

In this article we empirically study the notion of ‘The Resource Man’ put forward by Strengers (2014): a motivated and knowledgeable micro-resource manager, who uses domestic smart grid innovations to manage energy demand in a sustainable, affordable and grid-friendly way. To explore this notion, we analyse a case study where energy cooperative members engaged with an ICT-based monitoring platform focussing on three domestic energy-managing activities – energy monitoring, planning and sharing. We find that although this case provided the best prerequisites for the Resource Man to emerge, none of these activities was sustained during the project. This outcome underlines that the Resource Man perspective held by many actors in the energy industry has a narrow understanding of energy consumption and how it can be changed or made more flexible. We suggest that it is easier to understand householders’ engagement with energy through the concept of energy practice or “e-practices”. E-practices go beyond managing energy with smart devices, and can include being actively involved in an energy collective, generating, trading, storing or discussing energy. We argue that in general, domestic smart grid technology can play a potential but limited role in effecting changes to complex and interlinked daily practices.

Survey of Security Advances in Smart Grid: A Data Driven Approach

With the integration of advanced computing and communication technologies, smart grid is considered as the next-generation power system, which promises self healing, resilience, sustainability, and efficiency to the energy critical infrastructure. The smart grid innovation brings enormous challenges and initiatives across both industry and academia, in which the security issue emerges to be a critical concern. In this paper, we present a survey of recent security advances in smart grid, by a data driven approach. Compared with existing related works, our survey is centered around the security vulnerabilities and solutions within the entire lifecycle of smart grid data, which are systematically decomposed into four sequential stages: 1) data generation; 2) data acquisition; 3) data storage; and 4) data processing. Moreover, we further review the security analytics in smart grid, which employs data analytics to ensure smart grid security. Finally, an effort to shed light on potential future research concludes this paper.

How should grid operators govern smart grid innovation projects? An embedded case study approach

Grid operators increasingly have to collaborate with other actors in order to realize smart grid innovations. For routine maintenance, grid operators typically acquire technologies in one-off transactions, but the innovative nature of smart grid projects may require more collaborate relationships. This paper studies how a transactional versus relational approach to governing smart grid innovation projects affects incentives for other actors to collaborate. We analyse 34 cases of smart grid innovation projects based on extensive archival data as well as interviews. We find that projects relying on relational governance are more likely to provide incentives for collaboration. Especially non-financial incentives such as reputational benefits and shared intellectual property rights are more likely to be found in projects relying on relational governance. Policy makers that wish to stimulate smart grid innovation projects should consider stimulating long-term relationships between grid operators and third parties, because such relationships are more likely to produce incentives for collaboration.

Script of Healthcare Technology: Do Designs of Robotic Beds Exclude or Include Users?

April 01 2015 Script of Healthcare Technology: Do Designs of Robotic Beds Exclude or Include Users? Søsser Brodersen, Søsser Brodersen Søsser Brodersen is assistant professor at Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. She has a Master degree and PhD in Engineering. Her research focus is on the socio-material approach to design and innovation. Her main research areas are user-participation, participatory design and user-driven innovation with special focus on healthcare technologies, marginalized people and multicultural design challenges. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Meiken Hansen, Meiken Hansen Meiken Hansen has a Master of Science Engineering in the field Design and Innovation. Her master thesis was focused on user oriented product development. She is currently a PhD student, studying smart-grid innovation, intelligent homes and consumer practices. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Hanne Lindegaard Hanne Lindegaard Hanne Lindegaard is an Ethnologist with a PhD in Engineering. She is associate professor in User Oriented Design at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. Her main focus is on combining ethnographic field study methodology with engineering design approaches. Her research areas are a sociotechnical approach to design and innovation, User Oriented Design, Field observations, Co-creation, healthcare technology and intercultural design challenges. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Søsser Brodersen Søsser Brodersen is assistant professor at Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. She has a Master degree and PhD in Engineering. Her research focus is on the socio-material approach to design and innovation. Her main research areas are user-participation, participatory design and user-driven innovation with special focus on healthcare technologies, marginalized people and multicultural design challenges. Meiken Hansen Meiken Hansen has a Master of Science Engineering in the field Design and Innovation. Her master thesis was focused on user oriented product development. She is currently a PhD student, studying smart-grid innovation, intelligent homes and consumer practices. Hanne Lindegaard Hanne Lindegaard is an Ethnologist with a PhD in Engineering. She is associate professor in User Oriented Design at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. Her main focus is on combining ethnographic field study methodology with engineering design approaches. Her research areas are a sociotechnical approach to design and innovation, User Oriented Design, Field observations, Co-creation, healthcare technology and intercultural design challenges. Online Issn: 1531-4790 Print Issn: 0747-9360 © 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2015 Design Issues (2015) 31 (2): 16–28. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00319 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Søsser Brodersen, Meiken Hansen, Hanne Lindegaard; Script of Healthcare Technology: Do Designs of Robotic Beds Exclude or Include Users?. Design Issues 2015; 31 (2): 16–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00319 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsDesign Issues Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Smart Grid Innovation Strategy for Low-Carbon City Administration

Governments and scientists are concerned about the negative impacts of climate change on humanity in the foreseeable future, especially for the city sustainable development. Smart Grid is an important infrastructure service for developing the energy efficiency and low carbon society. The reliability and efficiency of our electrical grid can be enhanced by implementing smart grid technology; however this would require modifications to the current electrical system. The objective of this paper is to find out the innovation strategy for future smart grid by investigate, analyze and evaluate the related technologies and competitive information of different nations and industries. We presented the key information about smart grid development in the world. We also proposed four practical smart grid innovation strategies and innovation model for smart-green city policy making, construction and administration.

SuperGrid or SmartGrid: Competing strategies for large-scale integration of intermittent renewables?

This paper defines and compares two strategies for integrating intermittent renewables: SuperGrid and SmartGrid. While conventional energy policy suggests that these strategies may be implemented alongside each other, the paper identifies significant technological and socio-economic conflicts of interest between the two. The article identifies differences between a domestic strategy for the integration of intermittent renewables, vis-à-vis the SmartGrid, and a cross-system strategy, vis-à-vis the SuperGrid. Policy makers and transmission system operators must understand the need for both strategies to evolve in parallel, but in different territories, or with strategic integration, avoiding for one strategy to undermine the feasibility of the other. A strategic zoning strategy is introduced from which attentive societies as well as the global community stand to benefit. The analysis includes a paradigmatic case study from West Denmark which supports the hypothesis that these strategies are mutually exclusive. The case study shows that increasing cross-system transmission capacity jeopardizes the feasibility of SmartGrid technology investments. A political effort is required for establishing dedicated SmartGrid innovation zones, while also redefining infrastructure to avoid the narrow focus on grids and cables. SmartGrid Investment Trusts could be supported from reallocation of planned transmission grid investments to provide for the equitable development of SmartGrid strategies.

Innovating Relations – or Why Smart Grid is not too Complex for the Public

Revamping the electricity infrastructure to allow for an increased usage of renewable energy sources is a matter of concern in many parts of the world. In Europe, a major policy question is how to move energy demand to periods with surplus of renewable energy in the grid. In this paper we follow prominent Danish and German delegates working towards realizing the intelligent electricity infrastructure commonly known as ‘smart grid’ envisioned to be a significant actor in the management of renewable energy. Starting out with a view on smart grid that recognizes it as a partially existing object, we attend to its gradual emergence by focusing on two models and a metaphor evoked to represent smart grid development. As we contrast and compare these representational objects, smart grid emerges as a potential ‘thing’. Following Latour a ‘thing’ is a gathering of many actors agreeing and disagreeing about what the thing ‘is’ (its ontological status). In the paper we show how smart grid innovation both emerges – and fails to emerge – as an object of relevance to a broader public. Even though users play an important role in the imagination of experts, a gap remains between the experts and those who smart electricity infrastructures will come to affect. Concerned with this gap we argue that Science and Technology Studies must pay attention to how smart grid development gets constructed as a public problem in specific imaginative spaces of opportunity and closure.

Smart Grid, Clean Energy and US Policy

In the US, smart grid and, more generally, clean energy policies enjoy a surprisingly wide consensus. Although the consensus is strong, smart grid deployment has been hindered by barriers established by a century old fossil fuel energy policy that has had the effect of entrenching both private firms and the regulatory bureaucracy. This paper will first describe the failures to modernize US electricity markets which have led to a failure to modernize the grid. The paper will then describe the key responses to overcoming those impediments. In brief, smart grid development is central not only to more competitive and more efficient electricity markets, it is central to a clean energy economy. However, before the smart grid can be fully deployed in the US, three things must occur. First, a national innovation policy must be further developed and federal resources must be, and are being, directed to smart grid innovations. Second, federal and state regulators, together with industry and consumers, must renegotiate the traditional regulatory compact with the specific intent of designing a clean energy future and with it a smart grid. And, third, incumbent private utilities will have to retool the way they do business to optimize their use of available funds and innovation opportunities.

Benefits of the Smart Grid [In My View

The smart grid is a transformative set of technologies and business models. With mutually supportive private and public investment and with governmental policies that accommodate entrepreneurial smart grid innovations, we can grow our economy, create new high-paying jobs, and help protect our environment. The convergence of these diverse benefits represents an unparalleled opportunity for policy makers to advance an agenda based on research and development, on innovation, and on economic development. Through continued advancement of the Illinois Smart Grid Regional Innovation Cluster, the state is positioned to be a leader in the development and deployment of smart grid enabling strategies, services and technologies.