"Smart Grid" - Intelligent power mains

"Smart Grid" - Intelligent power mains

In the future, new technology will better equip the power grid for the demands of tomorrow. More flexible grid management should make the increasing proportion of renewable energy sources compatible with conventional infrastructures associated with power stations. The variety and number of these decentralised power plants require a revision in how we manage power grids – the so-called intelligent or "Smart Grid":

• Improving coordination of energy requirements and generation

• Using modern IT technology, like the Internet, sensors, control systems and wireless transmission devices

• "Smart metering" – digital current meters measure current consumption at end points of the grid

• Shifting household consumption away from peak load periods

• Starting flexible applications such as washing machines outside peak load periods, at the initiation of a utility provider

The Lucas-Nülle training systems have been designed in anticipation of these developments:

• Smart measuring instruments which avail of various communication interfaces (e.g. LAN, RS485, USB) and control elements

• SCADA Power Engineering Lab software for the intelligent control and evaluation of the "Smart Grid" with soft plc

• Didactically designed SCADA software

• Permits investigation of dynamically alternating loads and power generation inside the laboratory

• Intelligent energy management

• Modular integration of renewable energies into the smart grid using protective engineering

• Wind power plant with doubly-fed asynchronous generator (DFIG) with mains sychronisation

• Interactive multimedia training course

Training system on the generation, transmission, distribution, protection and management of electrical energy:

• Energy management, smart grid training system

• Energy generation, regenerative energy generation

• High-voltage transmission lines, protective systems