Investigating the impact of smart grids’ contributions in developing countries | ||||
| The International Conference on Electrical Engineering | ||||
| Article 48, Volume 8, 8th International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEENG 2012, May 2012, Page 1-12 PDF (340.12 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/iceeng.2012.30794 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Walid El-Khattam1; Marwa Mostafa2 | ||||
| 1Electrical Power and Machines Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| 2The Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency (EgyptERA), Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Abstract: The ability to improve safety and efficiency of the electric networks, making better use of existing assets, enhancing reliability and power quality, reducing dependence on imported energy, and minimizing costly environmental impacts are the main forces that have substantial economic value on the electricity industry. Most of the time, investment in generation, transmission, and distribution networks to achieve such benefits places a burden on developing countries’ economies, which can be relieved by Smart Grid (SG) concepts implementation. SG will intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to it; generators, grids, and consumers in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic, secure electricity supplies, provide self-healing, and take the full advantage of new technologies. This paper aims to assess the SG applications on the generation, transmission, distribution levels, and up to consumer sides in developed as well as developing countries. The main SG features are evaluated based on the available technologies and their span. The SG benefits that would reflect on utilities particularly aiming at integrating large amounts of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) into their grids and implementing distribution management, and consumers are presented. Moreover, a roadmap needed to achieve the mentioned SG application is proposed and discussed. Finally, the proposed recommendation and conclusions for the impact of SG on developing countries are illustrated. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Demand side management; smart grids; and renewable energy sources | ||||
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