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The paper reports on the potential challenges and opportunities of an electric power trans-Canadian grid (TCG). The report, which is the first stage of a broad research project on the TCG, identifies and examines the main issues from a qualitative view point and sets the stage for further quantitative analysis. The paper evaluates the competitive advantage of a TCG to meet established planning and...
This article deals with the challenges in reliability, security, efficiency, and resilience of energy infrastructure for a smart self-healing electric power grid. The electricity grid faces three looming challenges: its organization, its technical ability to meet 25 year and 50 year electricity needs, and its ability to increase its efficiency without diminishing its reliability and security. These...
A critical infrastructure (CI) consists of those physical and information technology facilities, networks, services and assets which, if disrupted or destroyed, have a serious impact on the health, safety, security or economic well-being of citizens or the effective functioning of governments. Nowadays, the operation controls of these infrastructures have been computerized and have gradually become...
With the development of high rate data transmission technology via distribution line communication, the electric power, data, voice and video can be transferred in the same electric power distribution network, and the technology will be put in operation widely in the future. However the traditional technology of power line communication is not adaptable to the complex and harsh environment of distribution...
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