Smart grid environment with effective storage and computational facilities

Abstract

Smart grid technology provides good support for power generation from consumer premises using solar/wind. The difficulty associated with operation of such grids are, lack of an operating platform for the coordinated operation of large number of distributed sources and requirement of huge computational and storage facilities. The immense potential of cloud computing technology can be utilized to address these issues. Also the resources in various substations can be shared to reduce the cost of operation. The cloud computing architecture provides a user friendly environment for the reliable operation of smart grids and it supports various smart grids applications. The proposed architecture for data storage has been realized in the open stack cloud environment. © 2013 Springer.