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Showing 1 to 20 of 236 for “"Smart Grid"”.
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Data Reduction in Smart Grid
The advancement of the electric grid has led to tremendous growth in data generated from the installed sensors. With this huge amount of data, the electric grid faces a big data problem. Therefore, it is necessary to implement a data reduction technique that would not only curtail the exponential …
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Smart Grid Technologies and Implementations
Smart grid has been advocated in both developing and developed countries in many years to deal with large amount of energy deficit and air pollutions. However, many literatures talked about some specific technologies and implementations, few of them could give a clear picture on the smart grid …
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Secure Communications in the Smart Grid
Smart grid has diverse stake holders that often require varying levels of access to grid state and measurements. At the distribution level (i.e., MAN), smart grid provides two way communication between households and utilities. At the transmission level (i.e., WAN), multiple organizations need to …
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Key Management Scheme for Smart Grid
A Smart Grid (SG) is a modern electricity supply system. It uses information and communication technology (ICT) to run, monitor and control data between the generation source and the end user. It comprises a set of technologies that uses sensing, embedded processing and digital communications to …
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Analysis with Smart Grid Methods & Solutions
Smart Grid Technologies such as demand Response, energy storage, microgrids, advanced communication technologies, and are being rapidly adopted into the electric grid by the each technology. Utilities making efforts to support, invest, adopt and implement these. One challenge is not necessarily …
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Bridging Machine Learning for Smart Grid Applications
… and apply machine learning algorithms on various smart grid applications including state estimation, false data injection attack detection, and reliability evaluation. The dissertation is divided into four parts as follows.. Part I: Power system state estimation (PSSE). The PSSE is commonly …
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Impacts of distributed generation on Smart Grid
With the concept of Smart Grid, there are high possibilities that the interconnection of distributed generation issues can be solved and minimised. This thesis discusses the impacts of distributed generation on Smart Grid technology, in particular it identifies and determines whether the system …
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Evolutionary Algorithms for Resource Allocation in Smart Grid
… and development direction of the traditional grid, the smart grid provides a feasible solution for the global low-carbon targets. The smart grid's bidirectional communication architecture and decentralization control methods contribute to integrating distributed energy sources, energy storage …
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Balancing of intermittent renewable generation in smart grid
… required energy, while responding to electricity grid imbalance. It proved to be possible to balance the generation and increase system efficiency while maintaining user satisfaction. For the second approach, the hybrid multi-power plant system was exploited. Three different power sources were …
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Network-simulation-based evaluation of smart grid applications
… conducting a major upgrade of their electrical grids. The new “smart grid” is not a physically isolated network like the older power grid was, but a complicated network of networks. That greatly increases the security concerns, ranging from hackers who gain access to control networks or create …
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Benefits of smart grid technologies in South Africa
… studies have revealed that the distribution grid infrastructure is aging and poorly maintained, and that its state was steadily deteriorating. Ageing infrastructure has been identified as the key challenge for the electricity generation, transmission and distribution sectors. It has also been …
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Enabling Communication and Networking Technologies for Smart Grid
Transforming the aging electric grid to a smart grid is an active area of research in industry and the government. One of the main objectives of the smart grid is to improve the efficiency of power generation, transmission and distribution and also to improve the stability and the reliability of …
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Cascading Failures and Contingency Analysis for Smart Grid Security
<p>The modern electric power grid has become highly integrated in order to increase the reliability of power transmission from the generating units to end consumers. In addition, today’s power system are facing a rising appeal for the upgrade to a highly intelligent generation of electricity …
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Context-sensitive key management for smart grid telemetric devices
In smart grid, the scale of pole devices that monitor the health of power line is large. With the upgrade of smart grid, the number of these resource-constrained (in terms of memory and computation) devices is further increasing. These devices are easy targets to security attacks as they are …
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High-performance computing for smart grid analysis and optimization
The smart grid leverages a variety of advanced technologies, including smart metering, smart equipment, communication and control technologies, renewable energy sources, and machine learning, to improve the efficiency and reliability of existing electric power systems. The efficiency and …
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A framework for privacy-preserving data sharing in smart grid
While smart grid introduces a lot of enhancements to the traditional power grid and improves managing and controlling consumers demands, it also introduces security and privacy issues. Therefore, failure to address them will hinder the flourish of smart grid. In this thesis, we propose a novel …
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