Present and future ICT infrastructures for a smarter grid in Japan

Author

Serizawa, Yoshizumi ; Ohba, Eiji ; Kurono, Masahiro

Author_Institution

Central Res. Inst. of Electr. Power Ind., Komae, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

19-21 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper first provides a vision of a future power delivery and utilization grid in Japan, and reviews the present information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure for existing power grids. Based on this vision and review, future ICT infrastructure to cope with the significant penetration of photovoltaic generation, legacy communication equipment and aged power assets is proposed for wide-area monitoring and emergency protection and control, demand area secure communications, and ad-hoc and plug-and-play sensing for maintenance. This will enable the renovation of ICT infrastructure for a future Japanese smarter grid.

Keywords

maintenance engineering; photovoltaic power systems; power engineering computing; power system measurement; power system protection; smart power grids; ICT infrastructures; Japanese smarter grid; emergency protection; information and communication technology; legacy communication equipment; photovoltaic generation penetration; plug-and-play sensing; power grids; wide-area monitoring; Aging; Communication equipment; Communications technology; Monitoring; Photovoltaic systems; Power generation; Power grids; Protection; Smart grids; Solar power generation; SCADA; Smart gird; customer; distributed generation; maintenance; metering; protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), 2010

Conference_Location

Gaithersburg, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6264-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6333-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGT.2010.5434775

Filename

5434775