Building a Smarter Grid
There is an urgent need to modernize our transmission and distribution system in North America, and the ‘Smart Grid’ has emerged as the solution. Mainstream media reports often focus on the consumer and on smart metering and AMI. These are important components of the smart grid, but they are just the beginning.
This six-part podcast series, hosted by T&D World Editor-in-Chief Rick Bush and featuring ABB executives and managers directly involved in Smart Grid activity with many different utilities, lays out a comprehensive definition of a ‘Smarter Grid.’ This Smarter Grid encompasses a broad range of existing and emerging technologies, and extends to all facets of grid operations, from generation, across the T&D system, to end use.
The six topics in this “Building the Smarter Grid” podcast series are: Smart Grid: Much More than Smart Meters; Open Architecture Standards and the Need for Interoperability; Managing Assets to Improve Utility Decision Making; Renewable Energy Transmission Technologies; A Look at Distribution Management Technologies; and, The Need for Greater Cyber-Security and Physical Security.
Podcasts
Building a Smarter Grid: Managing Assets to Improve Utility Decision Making
Join Greg Scheu, President and Head of Power Products for ABB, and Rick Bush as they discuss how utilities can extract more value from existing grid infrastructure by managing the overall assets of the T&D operation....
Building a Smarter Grid: The Need for Greater Cyber-Security and Physical Security
The Smart Grid will not reach its full capabilities if it is vulnerable to malicious outside threats such as hackers and cyber-terrorists, as well as potential natural disasters...
Building a Smarter Grid: Renewable Energy Transmission Technologies
Today’s growing emphasis on renewable energies has prompted much discussion about how these alternative electricity sources can be transported from remote wind or solar farms to the population centers that need the energy...
Building a Smarter Grid: Open Architecture Standards and the Need for Interoperability
Interoperability – the capacity for devices from various manufacturers to work together – is vital to the realization of a network-based Smart Grid...
Building a Smarter Grid: A Look at Distribution Management Technologies
One of the key characteristics of the Smart Grid refers to electric power systems that enhance grid reliability and efficiency by automatically anticipating and responding to system disturbances...
Building a Smarter Grid: Much More than Smart Meters
There’s an urgent need to modernize our T&D system in the United States, and the ‘Smart Grid’ has emerged as the solution....
