SMARTGRIDS MAPPING
The European Smart Grid Task Force defines Smart Grids as electricity networks that can efficiently integrate the behaviour and actions of all users connected to it — generators, consumers and those that do both — in order to ensure an economically efficient, sustainable power system with low losses and high quality and security of supply and safety.
Source : smartgrids task force – European Commission
More than 70 organizations are indexed in smartgrids mapping! These represent many jobs (R&D, financing, manufacturing, distribution, maintenance, training, sensitizing, etc) and include many technological skills.
The vertical value chain, known as the technology value chain, is divided into five major parts :
- Steering systems
- EMS : Energy Management System
- GIS : Geographic Information System
- DMS : Distribution Management System
- OMS : Outage Management System
- WMS : Workload Management System
- DA : Distribution Automation
- CEMS : Consumer Energy Management Systems
- CIS : Customer Information System
- Control & detection systems
- SCADA : Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
- WASA/WAMS/WAAPCA: Wide-Area Situational Awareness / Wide Area Measurement System / Wide-area adaptive protection, control and automation
- MDMS : Meter Data Management System
- Measuring tools
- PMU : Phasor Measurement Unit
- Capteurs Compteurs intelligents
- Energy infrastructure
- Superconducteurs
- FACTS : Flexible AC Transmissions Systems
- HVDC : High Voltage Direct Current
- Communication infrastructure
- LAN : Local Area Network
- WAN : Wide Area Network
- FAN/AMI : Field Area Network/Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- CPE : Costumer Premise Equipement
- HAN : Home Area Network
