Observing the Power Grid: Working Toward a More Intelligent, Efficient, and Reliable Smart Grid with Increasing User Visibility
Observing the Power Grid: Working Toward a More Intelligent, Efficient, and Reliable Smart Grid with Increasing User Visibility
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DOI：
10.1109/msp.2012.2186763
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发表时间：
2012-08
影响因子：
14.9
通讯作者：
P. Top;M. Bell;E. Coyle;O. Wasynczuk
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作者：
P. Top;M. Bell;E. Coyle;O. Wasynczuk
作为现代社会的一个基本装置，电常常被认为是理所当然的。在许多情况下，它变得不可见或被忽视，直到它不存在或到了支付电费的时候。电力已经存在了一个世纪，工业的发展和进步创造了现存最复杂的互联系统。在一个微妙的平衡行为中，发电量必须跟踪消耗量，以防止系统崩溃，因为电网上只有非常有限的存储容量。这种平衡是通过分布在整个电网中的预测和控制系统来维持的。这种平衡保持得如何，产生的信号会在整个系统中传播，从大型发电机到世界各地无处不在的墙上插座。观察这些信号可以提供对电网当前状态和运行的大量洞察，并且可以在家庭或办公室内廉价而准确地完成。
As an essential fixture of modern society, electricity is often taken for granted. In many cases, it becomes invisible or is ignored until it is not there or it is time to pay the electric bill. Electricity has been around for well over a century, and the march of industry and progress have created the most complex interconnected system in existence. In a delicate balancing act, the amount of electricity generation must track the amount consumed to prevent the system from collapsing, as there is only very limited storage capacity on the grid. The balance is maintained via a combination of predictions and control systems distributed across the grid. How well this balance is maintained produces signals that propagate across the entire system from the large generators to the wall outlets that are ubiquitous across the world. Observing these signals can provide a great deal of insight into the current status and operation of the power grid and can be done cheaply and accurately from inside a home or office.