Smart Grid - reliability, Security, Self-healing standpoint, and state of the art

Document Type : Original research articles

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Electrical Engineering department , Faculty of Engineering, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Abstract

The industrial revolution in various fields has led to an increased demand for energy. Consequently, this has led to many challenges, not only for generation stations but also for the distribution stations.
This rise in energy demand pushed the system to be more complex by increasing requirements for greater reliability, efficiency, security, and environmental and energy sustainability concerns. This great development in networks provoked many companies to switch to using smart methods, which is currently known as “smart grid”
Because of the disadvantages of the traditional grid. The smart grid is considered the best solution for improving the traditional grid. Both grids are similar, but the smart grid makes all parts of the traditional grid smarter in order to achieve the aims we needed from the smart grid. This paper will give an overview of the smart grid and discuss some results of smart grid generation. The system has been validated by MATLAB Simulink software.

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