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A team at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has developed and tested advanced decision support tools for power system restoration based on adoption of a pre-formulated strategy with defined "milestones." System operators adopt a an approach for system restoration and identify markers along a path so that goals can be achieved efficiently.
Wireless sensor networks provide numerous opportunities for smart grid applications including demand-side energy management, power system monitoring, coordination of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and integration of renewable energy generators. Because of their low cost, intrinsic redundancy and ease-of-deployment, they will be useful on a large scale in power grids.
With grid monitoring systems in various areas already taking billions of data samples each day, and with the numbers sure to become even more gigantic in the near future, development of more sophisticated analytical methods for power system monitoring is imperative. Such work is proceeding apace in the context of the North American Synchrophasor Initiative, as well as at universities and research institutions.
The usual smart grid vision implies a huge increase in the number of entities that will communicate and interact in both the distribution systems and bulk power operation. This requires new methods of management and system operation. But, we need not start from scratch. Tools developed to run competitive wholesale electricity systems provide useful models.
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