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E-book eIoT : The Development of the Energy Internet of Things in Energy Infrastructure
The electric power grid was developed on an architectural assumption of centralizedgeneration being delivered to passive distributed loads irrespective of the costrequired to do so [33]. However, several new energy-management change driversare emerging to uproot this status quo. Chapter1identifies these drivers as therising demand for electricity [34–36], the emergence of renewable energy resources[37–40], the emergence of electrified transportation [41,42], the deregulationof power markets [43,44], and innovations in smart grid technology [45,46].Responding to these drivers requires new and integrated technical solutions forenergy management.The energy Internet of Things (eIoT) has been proposed as one such energy-management solution, illustrated in Fig.1. eIoT is a leading and overarchingperspective where all devices that consume electricity are internet-enabled and,consequently, can coordinate their energy consumption with the rest of the grid inor near real-time. eIoT technologies must, therefore, be adopted within the contextof these energy-management change drivers.Perhaps nowhere will the impact of the energy-management change driversidentified in the previous paragraphs be felt more than at the grid’s periphery.Distributed generation (DG), in the form of solar photovoltaics (PV) and small-scale wind, will be joined by a plethora of internet-enabled appliances and devices totransform the grid’s periphery to one with two-way flows of power and information[45,46]. This transformation is a daunting technical challenge. Not only are theretens of millions of devices at the leaves of the grid’s radial structure, these devicesare relatively small and require innovations in sensing, communication, control,and actuation. Chapter1first describes this transformation and then describes thechallenge of activating the grid’s periphery. Finally, it describes how eIoT canpotentially be deployed as a scalable energy-management solution.
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