The document summarizes a seminar presentation on smart grids. It begins with an introduction to smart grids, noting they involve modernizing and digitizing the electric grid. It then covers the need for smart grids due to increasing energy demand, grid inefficiencies, and the need to accommodate renewable energy. The key features of smart grids are discussed, including preventing blackouts, implementing an intelligent monitoring system, enabling two-way communication between utilities and customers, and making the grid more resistant to outages and cyberattacks. Components of smart grids like smart meters and superconducting cables are also highlighted.

1. SEMINAR PRESENTATION
NAVANEETH KRISHNA T
DEPT. OF EEE
PKD16EE045
NOVEMBER 29TH ,THURSDAY
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2. SMART GRID
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3. CONTENTS
• INTRODUCION
• NEED FOR SMART GRID
• FEATURES
• SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION
• COMPONENTS OF SMART GRID
• COMPARISON BETEWEEN SMART GRID AND CONVENTIONAL GRID
• DISADVANTAGES
• RESEARCH AND DEVOLOPMENT
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
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4. WHAT IS A SMART GRID?
• Modernization of grid & digitalization.
• Its an integration of many technologies and instruments
• Delivers electricity to consumers using two- way digital technology
• Intelligent monitoring system, keeps track of all electricity flowing in
the system- Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition(SCADA)
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5. NEEED FOR SMART GRID
• Increase in energy demand
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6. NEED FOR SMART GRID contd..
• Inefficiency of existing grid
• Ability to accommodate renewable energy sources
• Better maintenance and lesser losses
• Better demand response
• Handles energy independence
• No power outages
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7. KEY FEATURES
• SMART GRID HAS
No blackouts
An intelligent monitoring system
Automatic fault detection and restoration
Smart meters that provides real time power consumption details
Two way Metering
Resistance to cyber attacks and electricity thefts 7

8. SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION
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9. COMPONENTS OF SMART GRID
• Smart power meters
• Integrated communications
• Meter data acquisition system
• Meter data management systems
• Smart sub stations
• Superconducting cables
• Smart appliances
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10. SMART POWER METER
SUPER CONDUCTING
CABLES
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11. COMPARISON
CONVENTIONAL GRID
• ONE WAY DISTRIBUTION
• MANNUAL RESTORATION
• POWER FAILURES
• FEW SENSORS
• CENTRALISED GENERATION
• ELECTROMECHANICAL
• LIMITED CUSTOMER CHOICES
SMART GRID
• TWO WAY DISTRIBUTION
• SELF HEALING
• NO BLACKOUTS
• SENSORS THROUGHOUT
• DISTRIBUTED GENERATION
• DIGITAL
• MORE CUSTOMER CHOISES
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12. DISADVANTAGES
• High cost of installation
• Lack of awareness
• Policies and regulations
• Prone to cyber attacks
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13. RESEARCH AND DEVOLOPMENT
• NSGM Establishment
• Puducherry smart grid project
• Smart grid knowledge centre.
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14. Smart Grid Vision for India is:
• “Transform the Indian power sector into a secure,
adaptive, sustainable and digitally enabled ecosystem
that provides reliable and quality energy for all with
active participation of stakeholders.”
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15. CONCLUSION
• The Smart Grid will consist of millions of pieces and parts like controls, computers,
power lines, and new technologies and equipment. It will take some time for all the
technologies to be perfected, equipment installed, and systems tested before it
comes fully on line. And it won’t happen all at once the Smart Grid is evolving, piece
by piece, over the next decade or so. Once mature, the Smart Grid will likely bring
the same kind of transformation that the Internet has already brought to the way we
live, work, play, and learn.
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16. REFERENCES
• https://www.researchgate.net
• India smart grid forum
• “Smart Grid Vision for India”, Ministry of Power (MoP), Govt. of India,
August, 2013
• Smart Grid Development in India – A Case Study Rajesh Kumar Chief
Manager (Smart Grid) Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., Gurgaon,
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17. THANK YOU
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