Smart Grids & Distribution Networks (GSOE9141)

Course Outline

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Course Coordinator:

Professor Vassilios G. Agelidis, School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications.

Course Rationale

This course will offer flexible delivery, being conducted in blended mode combining three face-to-face workshops, online activities and workplace-based learning. The course can be taken to contribute towards an Engineering Masters program (as 6 Units of Credit), or be taken as non-Award (without academic assessment), contributing instead towards Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Implementation of smart grid strategies by power utilities necessitates a new set of skills, experiences and knowledge. Understanding the smart grid requires knowledge of numerous key engineering topics in electrical and power engineering, telecommunications and information technologies. Such key engineering disciplines also must intersect other disciplines including sciences, markets, business strategies and processes, energy related policies and regulation. The smart grid requires a suite of new standards to be developed and implemented from the technical point of view. Moreover, the smart grid is a customer-centred transformation of aged electricity grids and promises to deliver many benefits to customers, hence consumer behaviour and social sciences also play an important role in smart grids. Professionals and engineers working in the power industry and information and communications technologies will seek to upgrade and expand their practical skills to meet unprecedented market demand. This new course will provide the fundamentals of smart grids from generation to transmission, and from distribution through to utilisation. The course will focus mainly on intelligent electricity distribution networks and will provide the basis for the new thinking and design methodology required by engineers and professionals for transforming the current distribution networks to become a major part of the future intelligent electricity network. The course is informed by industry professionals and practicing engineers who are responsible to deliver smart grid related projects for decades to come.

Proposed Handbook Description

A smart grid is the integration of numerous technologies, systems and processes with the aim to modernise and fully automate the entire electricity grid covering generation, transmission, distribution, utilisation plus conservation of energy. Smart grids will revolutionise the design, development, management, operation and maintenance of the grid to levels that were thought impossible some decades ago. The drivers towards smart grids include environmental awareness of people and governments; the need for further automation and energy efficiency; large capital investments for the renewal of the ageing infrastructure in most developed countries including Australia; adoption of competitive energy prices; security of supply; energy conservation and the ever increasing electricity demand that needs to be met. The course will provide advanced information and thinking required by engineers and professionals to deliver smart grid concepts from inception to implementation. The course will mainly focus on intelligent electricity distribution networks, present the latest technologies used to automated such networks and analyse the impact of these technologies on system design, operation, management and maintenance.

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Course Aims

The aims of the course are to:

• present the fundamental concepts associated with smart grids • analyse current electricity distribution networks and associated technologies • study the impact of information and communication technologies on distribution grids • perform evaluation of the energy efficiency of smart grid technologies and projects • devise methodologies for design of the intelligent distribution networks.

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of the course students will be able to:

1. understand power distribution networks and the context and challenges of implementing projects towards energy efficient smart grids;

2. apply new technological knowledge in the context of existing industry projects and evaluate possible improvements;

3. evaluate existing industry projects in the context of economic benefits;

4. design and evaluate new smart grid projects relevant to energy efficient industry;

5. understand the need to consider and address human behaviour in smart grid and distribution networks.

Outline of Course Activities

Week 1: Face-to-face lecture (what is the smart grid & business drivers?) and workshop, including a tour of the new Tyree Energy Technologies building.

Week 2: Assignment 1 & online lectures.

Week 3: Assignment 1 & online lectures. Peer review of Assignment 1.

Week 4: Assignment 1 due.

Week 5: Face-to-face workshop. Feedback on Assignment 1. Case studies.

Week 6: Online lectures & start Assignment 2(a) – technological challenges. Peer review.

Week 7: Online lectures & Assignment 2(a) due.

Week 8: Online lectures & start Assignment 2(b) – economic challenges. Peer review.

Week 9: Online lectures & Assignment 2 (b) due.

Week 10: Online discussion about Assignment 3. Start Assignment 3. Case studies.

Week 11: Continue Assignment 3. More case studies.

Week 12: Assignment 3 due.

Week 13: Face-to-face workshop. Group presentations Ausgrid site tour. Wrap up.

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Course Content Wk. 1 What is the smart grid? Lecture slides. Site tour of the new Tyree Energy Technologies

Building

Wk. 2 Power system fundamentals

Wk. 3 Distribution grid networks & substation automation

Wk. 4 Information & communications technologies

Wk. 5 Smart grid case studies

Wk. 6 Modern load, modern generation sources & informatics for electricity distribution systems

Wk. 7 Smart metering technology, and power system analysis and control

Wk. 8 Project cost-benefit analysis

Wk. 9 Delivering a smart grid architecture

Wk.10 Case studies

Wk.11 Case studies

Wk.12 Revision & overview

Wk.13 Group presentations & Ausgrid Learning Centre site visit.

Student Workshop Dates and Programs

There will be three face-to-face workshops which students will be required to attend as part of the course on the following dates: • Workshop 1: Monday 11 March 2013, 9.00am – 4.30pm

Venue: Design@Eng Studio, Level 5 Building J17, UNSW Kensington campus Agenda:

9:00 Welcome and Introduction 9:30 Course overview 10:00 Lecture 11:00 Morning tea break 11:30 Lecture continued 12:30 LUNCH AND NETWORKING 13:30 Discussion on Assignment 1 – Smart Grid Project Analysis 14:30 Afternoon tea break 15:00 Tyree Energy Technologies Building technical tour 16:30 Group discussion 17:00 Close.

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• Workshop 2: Tuesday 23 April 2013, 9.00am – 4.30pm Venue: Design@Eng Studio, Level 5 Building J17, UNSW Kensington campus

Agenda:

9:00 Welcome and Introduction 9:15 Feedback on Assignment 1 10:15 Morning tea break 10:30 Overview of SmartGrid/Smart Cities Program 12:30 LUNCH AND NETWORKING 13:30 SmartGrid/SmartCities program continued 14:30 Discussion of group project assignment 15:30 Close.

• Workshop 3: Tuesday 4 June 2013, 9.00am – 4.30pm Venue: Ausgrid Learning Centre, 48-50 Holker Street, Silverwater Agenda:

9:00 Welcome and introduction. Assessment instructions. 9:30 Group presentations of Assignment 3 (15 minutes per group) 11:00 Morning tea break 11:30 Technology demonstrations in Ausgrid Learning Centre 12:30 LUNCH, DISCUSSION AND NETWORKING 13:30 Technology demonstrations in Ausgrid Learning Centre continued 15:30 Discussion points and Q&A 16:00 Course evaluation processes 16:30 Wrap up and close.

Assessment Details

Task Length Weight Learning outcomes assessed

Due date

Assessment 1

An initial short report asking students to think where their organisation is in respect to implementation of a smart grid. (eg. What projects their organisation has undertaken that students are aware of?)

Students who aren’t working can do case studies using articles provided, and report their learning (research/ analysis).

• What is their company’s project?

• Report (10%) • Powerpoint

presentation slides with voice overlay if possible to be submitted Week 4 (10%)

20% 1 and 2 TBC

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Task Length Weight Learning outcomes assessed

Due date

• What is their business case? • What are the challenges of the

project?

Assessment 2(a): Technological challenge

Students to pick one area within their organisational project and focus on a technological aspect, eg. a new product/technological solution.

• How can students improve the company’s project?

20% 2 TBC

Assessment 2(b): Economic challenge

Business/economic evaluation: cost-benefit analysis .

20% 3 TBC

Assessment 3:

Groups to create new projects to put to their business (ie. synthesise all previous assessments). Use article ‘10 Steps to a Smarter Grid’ Final report to benchmark against their company. Major report & group presentation.

Group project report Group presentations

30%

10%

4 and 5 TBC

Task instructions will only be made available online, and may not be available to students until the relevant preparation has been completed.

Texts and References

• The Smart Grid: Adapting the Power System to New Challenges, Bollen, Math H J, Morgan & Morgan Publishers, 2011

• The Smart Grid: An Introduction, Department of Energy (US)

• Towards Smart Power Networks – Lessons learned from European Research Framework Program 5 Projects, European Union

• S.E. Collier, Ten Steps to a Smarter Grid, IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, 2010, pp. 62-68

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