Title :
Ten steps to a smarter grid
Abstract :
This paper includes a ten-step plan for electric utilities to to make their distribution grid a modern one, a smart one, an agile one. This plan will is presented in the form of a Smart Grid audit that can be used continuously to assess and deploy practical options to make the grid smarter.
Keywords :
electricity supply industry; power distribution planning; power grids; Smart Grid audit; distribution grid; electric utilities; ten-step plan; Automatic control; Availability; Capacity planning; Monitoring; Power industry; Quality of service; Redundancy; Smart grids; Storage automation; Uncertainty; GIS; Geographic Information System; IVR; Intelligent Electronic Device; Interactive Voice Response; Outage Management; Power Distribution Automation; Power Distribution Systems; SCADA; Smart Grid; Smart Meter; Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition;
Conference_Titel :
Rural Electric Power Conference, 2009. REPC '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Fort Collins, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3420-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4301-7
DOI :
10.1109/REPCON.2009.4919420
