Special Issue "Future Grid"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Randy H. Katz
RADLab, Room 465 Soda Hall #1776, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1776, USA
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Dear Colleagues,

The Electrical Grid, a triumph of 20th Century engineering, is poised for a major redesign and revolutionary new structure for the 21st Century. The Grid as we know it today is highly centralized and unidirectional in the manner in which electricity flows from sources to loads. Loads are oblivious to the availability of supply, and the only strategy to manage situations in which demand exceeds supply is to propagate outages. This is set to change, as the Grid becomes transformed by pervasive information and distributed resources for energy generation and storage. Loads will follow supply, adapting their pattern of consumption to available energy. Storage will break the synchronization between source and load, allowing integration of intermittent renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. The Grid is likely to become more like a network, with decentralized control, more general interconnection between sources and loads, and information following where ever electrical current flows. Future Grid research gives us critical insights into the potential structure of this crucial infrastructure for this century.

Prof. Dr. Randy H. Katz
Guest Editor

Submission

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• smart grid
• energy networks
• distributed generation
• energy storage
• demand response