Evolution of Power Grids (Transmission)

Date Published
08/2016
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Authors
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DOI
10.1002/9781118755471.sgd015
Abstract

Today's electric power transmission grid is the result of years of technological innovation driven by the needs of the institutions that have planned, built, operated, and regulated the grid. To understand how smart grid technologies – monitoring, communication, and control devices and systems – will influence the grid's future evolution, we must understand how the institutions and regulations that influence the grid have evolved and the challenges they currently face. This chapter illustrates the relationship between transmission grid evolution and the future of smart grid technologies by describing how a leading example of smart grid technologies, synchrophasors, will contribute to the continuing evolution of the US transmission system.

Book Title
Smart Grid Handbook
Volume
6066146PAS-1026
Year of Publication
2016
Issue
1283155
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
City
Chichester, UK
ISBN Number
9781118755488
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