TY - GEN
T1 - Evolution of communication and control for electric grid load management
AU - Shankar, Mallikarjun
AU - Nutaro, James
AU - Stovall, John
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We discuss the evolving role of communication and control for automatic load management in electric distribution systems. We start by reprising a description of the Athens project - one of the earliest deployed examples of automatic load management at consumers enabled by communication signals. We observe that the use of communication for such systems has gone through distinct phases in its evolution addressing emerging requirements (some mandated by policy) for system reliability. The present day needs for increased smarts in the grid motivate integrated simulations of communications and control with electric grid behavior. We support this argument with a simulation case study illustrating how load management depends on the overlying communication system parameters when it provides frequency regulation in the electric grid.
AB - We discuss the evolving role of communication and control for automatic load management in electric distribution systems. We start by reprising a description of the Athens project - one of the earliest deployed examples of automatic load management at consumers enabled by communication signals. We observe that the use of communication for such systems has gone through distinct phases in its evolution addressing emerging requirements (some mandated by policy) for system reliability. The present day needs for increased smarts in the grid motivate integrated simulations of communications and control with electric grid behavior. We support this argument with a simulation case study illustrating how load management depends on the overlying communication system parameters when it provides frequency regulation in the electric grid.
KW - Automatic load management
KW - Communication
KW - Control
KW - Frequency regulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78649541532&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PES.2010.5590059
DO - 10.1109/PES.2010.5590059
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649541532
SN - 9781424483570
T3 - IEEE PES General Meeting, PES 2010
BT - IEEE PES General Meeting, PES 2010
T2 - IEEE PES General Meeting, PES 2010
Y2 - 25 July 2010 through 29 July 2010
ER -