Podcast: Green Infrastructure For A More Efficient Future

In this episode, we talk about how a novel approach for wind turbine design could alleviate the supply chain bottleneck while maintaining or increasing energy output followed by the initiatives to reduce construction related emissions while focusing on increasing structural longevity.

Farbod Moghaddam

fromThe Next Byte

24 May, 2022.

Podcast: Green Infrastructure For A More Efficient Future

EPISODE NOTES

(0:53) - Modular Wind Energy

(16:15) - Net Zero Construction

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Using IoT to get the most out of smart grids

After taking a hit during the pandemic, utilities around the globe are getting back on track to modernize aging electricity distribution grids.

electrical engineering

fromNordic Semiconductor

29 Jul, 2022.

After taking a hit during the pandemic, utilities around the globe are getting back on track to modernize aging electricity distribution grids. Governments in Europe, China, and the U.S. are signing off ambitious expansion plans to build more computerized networks to achieve carbon-free electricity generation. IoT will be fundamental for ensuring maximum return on this huge investment.

Spending big on digitization

The International Energy Agency (IEA) defines a smart grid as “an electricity network that uses digital and other advanced technologies to monitor and manage the transport of electricity from all generation sources to meet the varying electricity demands of end-users. Smart grids (…) operate all parts of the system as efficiently as possible, minimizing costs and environmental impacts while maximizing system reliability, resilience, and stability”.

These benefits have encouraged big infrastructure budgets; according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), expenditure on smart grids reached $300 billion in 2021 and is set to triple by 2030.

IoT is much more than just smart meters

The smart meter is perhaps the poster child of the smart grid. With usage information constantly transmitted to the cloud, utilities can accurately predict future demand and offer variable tariffs to consumers to encourage them to moderate consumption during peak periods.

But smart grids are much more than smart meters. Advanced grids are the interconnection of millions of vital components, each of which has an impact on performance. Wireless sensors not only provide data on supply but also provide early notification of problems caused by such things as lightning strikes or branches shorting conductors. This information is vital for utility engineers trying to maintain a complex yet delicately balanced system.