Principle Contractors
ABB
ABB is one of the biggest company in power and automation technologies. It operates in around 100 countries and has been in operation for over 120 years. The ABB Group is specialist in power semiconductors, grid automation technologies, and grid communication standards. Therefore they have a great knowledge in smart grid technologies. The major focus of this company is distribution automation, however, they also provide solutions for energy storage, distribution grid hardware, network management, metering and communications, FACTS/HVDC, and enterprise software for demand management [1].
Aclara
Aclara is one the major provider of meter data management and consumer engagement solutions. The enterprise is also expert in advanced metering infrastructure and utility networks. The company work in nine countries and serve over than 500 utilities [1].
Aclara is currently in production with Pennsylvania Power & Light to connect the utilities of its 1.5 million customers with distribution planning and forecasting. In the Latin America, Mexico’s Federal Commission of Electricity chose Aclara's powerline advanced metering infrastructure networking on a project that will also allow in-home displays.
eMeter
eMeter is specialist in software that manages the enormous amount of data coming from smart meters, providing integration between meter data management and advanced metering infrastructure for utilities information systems. They have over 25 million meters under contract and serve utilities across North America, Europe, and Australia [1].
The company is responsible for a project of a new smart grid framework for 1.1 million customers. Long Island Power Authority and National Grid Electric Ser...
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Energy Australia
With a A$ 100 million contract from the Australian government, Energy Australia was able to start it own smart grid project. In June 2010 in the state of New South Wales, the cities of Newcastle and Sydney are the cities where were planed to install 50,000 smart meters in five location at Newcastle, Scone, the Sydney Central Business District (CBD), Ku-ring-gai and Newington. The project is called "Smart Grid, Smart Cities" is scheduled to be fully completed in 2013. Furthermore, 15 thousands of homes in the region will receive information about the home’s energy and water usage and carbon dioxide emissions. The project also includes battery storage and smart charging stations in Sydney's CBD and renewable energy tests, which extend the goals of the project beyond just smart meters.
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Cisco Designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP) - based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry and provide services associated with these products and their use. The company provides products for transporting data, voice within buildings, across campuses and globally. The products are utilized at enterprise businesses, public institutions, telecommunications companies and other service providers, commercial businesses, and personal residences. Cisco conducts its business globally and manages its business geographically. Its business is divided into the following three geographic segments: The Americans; Europe, M...
The Albany, GA. (See attachment 2) network has 1 WAN connection to corporate headquarters. This connection is a fractional T1 with a 256k circuit for email and 1.5Mbps for burst. The WAN is not protected by any type of network security devices. The network inventory includes:
Since Southern Light is a private company, information on the actual mining businesses who they receive their minerals from is kept secret away from the public. For the capital, since the business is expanding again, they would need a factory to build the fiber optic cables in, tools such as forklift, and such to design, build, and maintain fiber optic structures, vehicles for transportation of goods and to customers, and more. For labor, human resources are needed for building the fiber optic cables, transferring and installing them into their customer’s homes, businesses, and others. Southern Light has around 51 to 200 employees across the Gulf Coast and could be growing when the expansion begins. The entrepreneur of the production is the guy who brings all them together to make the business profitable. This guy is Eric Daniels, the Southern Light’s Chief Operating Officer. All four of the factors of production land, entrepreneur, labor and capital is the major contributors of Southern Light. Each factor of production played a vital role in that business development and growth. The services that this Inc. 500 company provides can greatly help the community. Banks and other government agencies will be provided with a private line, high-speed broadband Internet to send data back and forward up to 10 gigabits wired or wireless connection for each customer. The datacenter services will store backup data from every customer network servers. And, the customers will have reliable firewalls for network security against any hackers or malicious
On August 14th, 2003, a major blackout swept across portions of the northeastern United States and Canada. It was reported that a series of equipment outages in the Midwest led to uncontrolled cascading outages of power transmission lines and generators serving parts of the Northeast, Midwest and Canada. Automatic protective systems operated to open circuits and shut down power plants to prevent further spread of the outages. This is very similar to what happened in The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965. In both situations, the “grid system” shut down one generator in line at a time to protect a surge from the station before it.
SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a graphical application used for monitoring and controlling systems in industry from a centralized location. It receives real time data from the PLC, and can be used to input values and turn on/off outputs. It can provide alarms to allow the user to know when a process has finished or if a fault has occurred. SCADA systems often use HMI (human-machine interface) to allow the user to control valves, pumps, etc. which the HMI is connected to (Inductive Automation, 2014).
The reason for the blackout was none other than mistake of one man and the inadequate response of many. When one maintenance worker caused the loss of one power line, the adjacent power systems connecting from Ariz...
United States. Sandia National Laboratories. (2012, April 24). National Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA). Retrieved from http://energy.sandia.gov/?page_id=859
The module AC/DC is directly related to the career path of the electrical linemen. In the module i learned about two types of electrical current, alternating (AC), and direct current (DC). In direct current (DC), the electric charge (current) only flows in one direction. Electric charge in alternating current (AC), on the other hand, changes direction periodically. The voltage in (AC) circuits also periodically reverses because the current changes direction. Electrical lineman work on power lines and other thing that have (AC) or (DC) current depending on what they are working on. Lineman work on electrically energized (live) and de-energized (dead) power line. They may perform a number of tasks associated with power lines, including installation or replacement of distribution equipment such as capacitor banks, distribution transformers on poles, insulators and fuses.
Darby Company is also considering supplying a number of customers directly. From the San Bernardino plant, they would ship direct Los Angeles and San Diego, and from the El Paso plant they would supply direct to San Antonio (exact costs in Appendix 2.2C). In order to determine what will be the most cost effective way to distribution the meters, I will use network mapping and linear programming to minimize costs.
Are Smart Microgrids in Your Future? Exploring Challenges and Opportunities for State Public Utility Regulators
As we have witnessed the rolling blackouts and emergency alerts throughout many parts of our state of California within the past 12 months, there is a question waiting to be answered. Why do we have an energy crisis when there are other states that are doing just fine? Before we come to any hasty conclusion, let us ask ourselves what happened to the energy policy during the mid 90s? During that period the electric utilities went from being highly regulated to being deregulated following the trend in successful deregulation of many industries such as airline and telecommunication industries. The concept that deregulation will bring more competitive prices and better services to the public, undermined the negative potentials of the free market system. Deregulation bill must be abolished because it brings higher electricity prices, lower reliabilities of electricity, and also it threatens to drag down our economy along with it.
For the prevantion of the electricity blackout we need to build smart power grid. A modernized electrical grid that uses analog or digital information and communications technology to gather and act on information, such as information about the behaviours of suppliers and consumers is known as a smart grid. This is used to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity in an automated fashion[12]. The important aspects of smart grid is to electronic power conditioning and control of the production and distribution of
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One first issue is introduced in the article Civil Engineering Grand Challenges: Opportunities for Data Sensing, Information Analysis, and Knowledge Discovery written by several engineers. Ten current challenges were selected to be investigated further five have been included here. First to analyze was high building energy consumption, which includes: lightning, heating, cooling, and running of appliances. With the resource scarcity ...