Smart grids
Smart Grids can be defined as electricity networks that can efficiently integrate the behaviour and actions of all users connected to it — generators, consumers and those that do both — in order to ensure an economically efficient, sustainable power system with low losses and high quality and security of supply and safety.
The technology value chain is divided into five major parts :
- Steering systems
- EMS : Energy Management System
- GIS : Geographic Information System
- DMS : Distribution Management System
- OMS : Outage Management System
- WMS : Workload Management System
- DA : Distribution Automation
- CEMS : Consumer Energy Management Systems
- CIS : Customer Information System
- Control & detection systems
- SCADA : Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
- WASA/WAMS/WAAPCA : Wide-Area Situational Awareness / Wide Area Measurement System / Wide-area adaptive protection, control and automation
- MDMS : Meter Data Management System
- Measuring tools
- PMU : Phasor Measurement Unit
- Capteurs Compteurs intelligents
- Energy infrastructure
- Superconducteurs
- FACTS : Flexible AC Transmissions Systems
- HVDC : High Voltage Direct Current
- Communication infrastructure
- LAN : Local Area Network
- WAN : Wide Area Network
- FAN/AMI : Field Area Network/Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- CPE : Costumer Premise Equipement
- HAN : Home Area Network
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