Abstract

REVOLUTIONIZING AN ERA OF 21ST - CENTURY SMART GRID

Dr. ROLI SHUKLA*, PAVNI SHUKLA

Department of Chemistry Govt. MLB, BHOPAL (M.P.)

ABSTRACT

“POWER GRID”-It is the largest machine in the world an electric behemoth built on a skeleton of early 20th century engineering. The rest is a hodgepodge, a century's worth of innovations grafted onto an outdated framework. Yet, for the longest time, the Indian power grid has slogged on unchanged and rarely challenged, with a growing population shackled to its hide by every electrical gadget and appliance imaginable. More than 300,000 miles (482,803 kilometers) of sprawling transmission lines twist and weave through our country. Yet despite the sheer size of the system, a few outages are enough to bleed us of at least $150 billion dollars annually. Meanwhile, a growing population continues to plug more and more power-hungry gadgets and appliances into the grid. To address the current power grid's shortcomings and prepare for the future, the DOE hopes to implement a number of changes in the years to come. The plan is to transition to a more efficient version of the current power grid, the smart grid. This paper discusses the key problems with the current system, How the smart grid will address these issues, and just what kind of short- and long-term methods figure in to the effort of revolutionizing the current grid to THE 21ST CENTUARY SMART GRID.

Keywords: DOE (Department of energy), grid, transmission lines