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Comparison of Smart Grid Technologies and Progress in the USA and Europe

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Smart Grid Applications and Developments

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This work discusses historical and technical events in USA and Europe over the last few years that are aimed at modernizing the electric power grid. The US federal government has ratified the “Smart Grid Initiative” as the official policy for modernizing the electricity grid including unprecedented provisions for timely information and control options to consumers and deployment of “smart” technologies. European countries are unified in researching and developing related technologies through various structures supported by the European Union. This chapter presents the development of smart grids and an analysis of the methodologies, milestones and expected evolutions of grid technologies that will transform society in the near future.

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Acknowledgment

This chapter is an updated version of the paper “A Comparison of Smart Grid Technologies and Progresses in Europe and the USA” by Simoes, M.G., Roche, R., Kyriakides, E., Suryanarayanan, S., Blunier, B., McBee, K.D., Nguyen, P.H., Ribeiro, P.F., Miraoui, A., Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on 48 (4), 1154–1162. The copyright permission for reusing the paper has been granted by IEEE.

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  1. Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA

    M. Godoy Simões & K. McBee

  2. Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France

    R. Roche, B. Blunier & A. Miraoui

  3. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    E. Kyriakides

  4. Colorado State University, Colorado, USA

    S. Suryanarayanan

  5. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    P. Nguyen & P. Ribeiro

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  2. The Kadoorie Institute, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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  3. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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  4. Paris School of International Affairs and Centre d’Etudes Europeennes, Tsinghua University, Paris, France

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Godoy Simões, M. et al. (2014). Comparison of Smart Grid Technologies and Progress in the USA and Europe. In: Mah, D., Hills, P., Li, V., Balme, R. (eds) Smart Grid Applications and Developments. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6281-0_11

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