Smart Grid: Definition and Concepts

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Smart Grid
Definition and Concepts

Mohsen Anvaari
May 27, 2011

Software Engineering Group
Department of Computer and Information Science
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Agenda
• Definition: What It Is and What It Is Not?
• Characteristics, Goals and Benefits
• Building Blocks: What It Is Made Of?
• Key Issue: Interoperability
• Our Task: SEinSG (Software Evolution in Smart Grid)
• Questions

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Definition
What It Is?
• There is yet no internationally unified definition and
nobody exactly know what it is
• Even not unified term: Smart Grid, SmartGrids, Smarter
Grid, Intelligent Grid, Future Grid, Modern Grid
– However, the most commonly used term is “Smart Grid”
• Many parties have published definitions
– Some focusing on the technologies might be deployed in SG
– Others on the services SG can offer
• Some well‐known definitions are from:
– US Department of Energy (DOE), European Technology Platform on
Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS), International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

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Definition
What It Is?
• EPoSS definition: Smart Grid is an electricity network that
can intelligently integrate the actions of all users
connected to it – generators, consumers, and those that
do both, in order to efficiently deliver sustainable,
economic and secure electricity supply
(Technology Action Plan: Smart Grids, Report to the Major Economies Forum on Energy and
Climate, Prepared by Italy and Korea in consultation with MEF Partners, December 2009)
• DOE definition: An automated, widely distributed energy
delivery network, the Smart Grid will be characterized by
a two‐way flow of electricity and information and will be
capable of monitoring everything from power plants to
customer preferences to individual appliances.
(The Smart Grid: An Introduction, a publication sponsored by the US Department
Of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability)

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Definition
What It Is?
• Precise definition or easy to understand?

• A simple description (by Jesse Berst):
– Smart devices
– Two‐way communications
– Advanced control systems

• Smart Grid = Present‐day Electricity Grid (copper and iron)
+ Intelligence
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Definition
What It Is Not?
• Smart Grid relates to the electricity network only
(not gas)
• Smart Grid will not look significantly different
from today’s conventional electricity grids
(copper and iron cables)
• Smart Grid will not be a revolution but rather an
evolution
• Smart metering alone is not Smart Grid
– smart metering enables some features and
functionalities of smart grid

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Characteristics, Goals and Benefits
• Self‐healing: the capability to rapidly detect, analyze, respond and
restore from the fault
• Consumer friendly: the ability to involve a consumer into a grid
• High reliability: a quality of the power must satisfy consumer needs
• Resilient: immunity to cyber and physical attacks
• Distributed generation and storage options: adapt to new
technologies such as solar cells and electric vehicles
• Renewable energy integration: integrating more ecological and non‐
polluting power generation such as wind turbines
• Optimizes asset utilization: monitoring and optimization of its capital
assets and minimizes operations and maintenance expenses.

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Building Blocks

• Different parties have considered different structure for
SG
– NIST
– IEEE
– etc.

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Building Blocks

IEEE: Smart Grid 3 Fundamental Layers
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Building Blocks
Houseman
• Smart Grid Conceptual Architecture by Shargal and
Information Technology
Layer
Communication Layer
Power System Layer
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Building Blocks

• Another point of view by Santacana
Four Essential Building Blocks
Smart of Any Smart Technology
Grid
Power Grid
(Copper and Iron)
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Key Issue: Interoperability
• Smart Grid is a puzzle
• Every attempt to implement
another piece of the Smart Grid
puzzle is plagued by difficulty
• Possible approaches to this problem:
– One Stop, One Shop
– Vender to Vender Cooperation
– Industry Standards
– System Integrators
– Service Oriented Architecture
– Brute Force
– A combination of these approaches
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Our Task:
Software Evolution in Smart Grid
• Smartness in Smart Grid assumes many software‐driven
services and equipment
• Such software is in a never‐ending state of flux because of
changing expectations from the direct and indirect users
of software‐driven artifacts
• The actual software is developed and run by a large
number of companies in many countries

Question: When, how and by whom should then a
piece of software be evolved?
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Our Task:
Software Evolution in Smart Grid
• Improved Management of Software Evolution for Smart
Grid applications:
– A: Open Source Software in SmartGrids:
Investigating the well‐suitedness of Open Source Software (OSS) in the
Smart Grid context

– B: Evaluation of Software Application Portfolios:
Looking at methods for proposing and assessing evolution alternatives
for a portfolio of software applications

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References
1. Langeland, T. and Greiner, C. (2011). The Smart Grid – What It Is and What It Is Not, Fremtiden Er
Elektrisk, NEF Teknisk Møte, Trondheim, March 2011.
2. Santacana, E., Rackliﬀe, G., Tang, L., and Feng, X. (2010). Getting smart, Power and Energy
Magazine, IEEE, 8(2), pp. 41–48.
3. Collier, S.E. (2009). Ten Steps To A Smarter Grid, IEEE Rural Electric Power Conference, REPC '09, pp.
B2‐B2‐7.
4. Hassan, R. and Radman, G. (2010) Survey on Smart Grid, in Proceedings of the IEEE
SoutheastCon 2010, pp. 210‐213.
5. Berst, J. (2009). Why The Smart Grid Industry Can’t Talk The Talk, Smart Grid News, March 5, 2009.
6. Shargal, M. and Houseman, D. (2009). The Big Picture of Your Coming Smart Grid, Smart Grid News,
March 5, 2009.
7. The Smart Grid: An Introduction, a publication sponsored by the US Department Of Energy’s (DOE)
Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
8. NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 1.0, Office of the
National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability, U.S Department of Commerce, January 2010.
9. IEEE P2030 Draft Guide for Smart Grid Interoperability of Energy Technology and Information
Technology Operation with the Electric Power System (EPS), and End‐Use Applications and Loads,
IEEE Standards Association, 2011.
10. Position Paper on Smart Grids – An ERGEG Public Consultation Paper, European Regulators Group
for Electricity & Gas, December 2009.
11. Technology Action Plan: Smart Grids, Report to the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate,
Prepared by Italy and Korea in consultation with MEF Partners, December 2009

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