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Smart Grids – the vision of the electricity networks of the future |
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The countries of the European Community strongly support the growth of renewable energy sources for better environmental protection, for sustainable energy supply through saving fossil primary energy and to lower the dependency on imports of primary energy. In the next years more and more Gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar energy will be fed into the electricity networks. Today’s networks are not dimensioned for this. Furthermore, a large number of small power producers in the household and the charging of millions of electro-mobiles pose new challenges for the electricity networks.
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Written by Marco C Janssen
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Friday, 19 March 2010 14:34 |
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It is in these times where electricity has become a commodity and cornerstone of our society because of its reliability, availability and versatility that we are asked to look at “smart” solutions. The fact is that we cannot even begin to try and imagine a world without electricity. Nothing would be what it is today and more important the main engine of creation besides the human mind would not exist to help us achieve our goals and evolution would be at a much different pace.
What does looking for “smart” solutions mean? Some people believe that we have to start all over again and that everything that was done so far must be changed. Is this to say that we only had “stupid” solutions before? I however believe that something else is going on.
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