What are the three (3) features of a smart grid? 2
Chapter2: Loads On Structures
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1. What are the three (3) features of a smart grid?
2. How will you define a smart city? Is the characteristic of a smart city
similar to smartphones? In what way(s)?

Transcribed Image Text:Before Smart Grid:
One-way power flow,
simple interactions
After Smart Grid:
Two-way power flow,
multi-stakeholder
interactions
Factory
Adapted from EPRI Presentation by Joe Hughes
NIST Standards Workshop
April 28, 2008
Power Plant
Generates Electricity
Smart-office
huilding
ith own
nerator)
Power station
Transmission Lines
Carry Electricity
Long Distances
Transformer
Steps Up Voltage
For Transmission
Control centre
Wind
power
Houses
Distribution Lines
Carry Electricity
To Houses
Neighborhood
Transformer
Steps Down Voltage
Solar power
Energy storage
Smart house
(with hydrogen-car
generator)
Transformers On Poles Step
Down Electricity Before It
Enters Houses
Hospital
(with own generator)
Apartment
buildings
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