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Smart Grid is poised to revolutionize renewable energy resources with a Methodology for
our thinking and style of operation view to empowering the 21st century Implementation
in areas of electric power society through unprecedented quality
generation and its transportation of power. In light of the foregoing discussion,
and distribution to end-users, thus, the Smart Grid implementation can be
maximizing all-round societal benefits The Smart Grid will allow the highest strategized holistically from beginning
to all concerned. A culmination of level of convergence of power system to end with various components
technological innovation and efforts operational technology and Information therein over specific timeframe and
amongst its stakeholders, Smart and Communication Technology (ICT) methodology.The Smart Grid shall cover
Grid aims at achieving all-pervading applied to the electric grid, offering various components such as generation,
efficiency and economy. In other cheapest alternatives to customers transmission, distribution, metering and
words, Smart Grid is nothing short of and improved security, reliability, the end user, as visible in Figure 1.The
a revolution that involves power plant efficiency, and profitability to utilities. successful delivery of the Smart Grid
operators, transporters of electrical The Smart Grid, also known as ‘electricity solution shall, however, be contingent
energy, distributors, associated industry, with a brain’,‘the energy internet’, and on the strategic convergence of three
and end customers. ‘the electronet’, is poised to offer a industries/sectors with dedicated
convenient operational umbrella over contents as per the following:
Essentially, an energy delivery generation, transmission, distribution, The Physical Power Layer (the
system becomes a Smart Grid when it is metering, and, beyond the energy meter
distributed in a wide area, automated to inside customer premises. power transmission and distribution
a very large extent, and implemented network)
for establishing a bi-directional flow The Data Transport and Control Layer
of electricity and data.This is created (telecommunications infrastructure
for monitoring and control of the and control system)
entire power system and facilitating The Application Layer (applications
response to changes in everything and services using IT)
from choices of power plants to
the preferences of the individual The Smart Grid is poised to run
customer; the latter may even be applications among the different
extended to home appliances. constituents, for instance, the
utilities and consumers, can operate
The Smart Grid is also conceived only piggy-back on an end-to-end
as a means for reducing carbon telecommunication network.
footprint because of lesser emissions
and increased deployment of As a general practice, power utilities
maintain their own local area networks
(LANs) and wide area networks (WANs)
for internal data traffic and voice
communication amongst the utility’s
operational offices as well as to and
from the substations/control centre(s).
However, at present, no dedicated
Consumer Completion
Distribution Metering
Concept Generation Transmission
Figure 1 Smart Grid implementation: Conceptualization to completion
october–december 2016 14 energy future
our thinking and style of operation view to empowering the 21st century Implementation
in areas of electric power society through unprecedented quality
generation and its transportation of power. In light of the foregoing discussion,
and distribution to end-users, thus, the Smart Grid implementation can be
maximizing all-round societal benefits The Smart Grid will allow the highest strategized holistically from beginning
to all concerned. A culmination of level of convergence of power system to end with various components
technological innovation and efforts operational technology and Information therein over specific timeframe and
amongst its stakeholders, Smart and Communication Technology (ICT) methodology.The Smart Grid shall cover
Grid aims at achieving all-pervading applied to the electric grid, offering various components such as generation,
efficiency and economy. In other cheapest alternatives to customers transmission, distribution, metering and
words, Smart Grid is nothing short of and improved security, reliability, the end user, as visible in Figure 1.The
a revolution that involves power plant efficiency, and profitability to utilities. successful delivery of the Smart Grid
operators, transporters of electrical The Smart Grid, also known as ‘electricity solution shall, however, be contingent
energy, distributors, associated industry, with a brain’,‘the energy internet’, and on the strategic convergence of three
and end customers. ‘the electronet’, is poised to offer a industries/sectors with dedicated
convenient operational umbrella over contents as per the following:
Essentially, an energy delivery generation, transmission, distribution, The Physical Power Layer (the
system becomes a Smart Grid when it is metering, and, beyond the energy meter
distributed in a wide area, automated to inside customer premises. power transmission and distribution
a very large extent, and implemented network)
for establishing a bi-directional flow The Data Transport and Control Layer
of electricity and data.This is created (telecommunications infrastructure
for monitoring and control of the and control system)
entire power system and facilitating The Application Layer (applications
response to changes in everything and services using IT)
from choices of power plants to
the preferences of the individual The Smart Grid is poised to run
customer; the latter may even be applications among the different
extended to home appliances. constituents, for instance, the
utilities and consumers, can operate
The Smart Grid is also conceived only piggy-back on an end-to-end
as a means for reducing carbon telecommunication network.
footprint because of lesser emissions
and increased deployment of As a general practice, power utilities
maintain their own local area networks
(LANs) and wide area networks (WANs)
for internal data traffic and voice
communication amongst the utility’s
operational offices as well as to and
from the substations/control centre(s).
However, at present, no dedicated
Consumer Completion
Distribution Metering
Concept Generation Transmission
Figure 1 Smart Grid implementation: Conceptualization to completion
october–december 2016 14 energy future
