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Enabling customers to have greater
control of their usage pattern and
conservation,
Having considerable capacity to reduce
global carbon emissions,
Providing the ability to manage increasing
numbers of electric vehicles and charging
stations, and
Simulating an array of new business
models in the energy sector.
Definition of Smart Grid
There are various definitions of Smart Grid in
the literature, for example, Korean Electric Power
Corporation (KEPCO) defines Smart Grid as an
intelligent power system that integrates existing
generation, transmission and distribution systems
with information communications technology (ICT)
which enhances the efficiency of the energy supply,
stabilizes the power system and increases the
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acceptability of renewable energies and energy
storage systems. It can also provide high quality
electricity to customers through demand side
management and by improving the power system
stability with data gathered from many sensors, not
to mention its ability to predict and deal with failures.
TNB has established the delineations of
Smart Grid as “upgrading the capability of the
existing electric power grid by deploying more
automation and ICT technologies to enable the
grid to operate more efficiently, reliably and offer
additional services to consumers to save money
and reduce CO2 emissions”.
Smart Grid Schemes in TNB
Leveraging on the integration of automation,
technology, communication and IT applications
on existing grid network, TNB envisions having
a smarter grid beyond 2020 which will have the
following schemes: