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Where we are headed with the Smart Grid

Long-term drivers in the energy market are the cause of a current systematic optimization of the energy system. The demand for energy is growing worldwide a fact without doubt. It is expected to grow at an annual rate of 2.2 percent and climb from 20,300 terawatt-hours today to 33,000 terawatt-hours by 2030. The second major driver is the need for replacing aging and outdated energy infrastructure. And third, there is the massive challenge to put the global energy system on a sustainable basis. To handle all these drivers, we are focusing on a major field to manage the revolution in the energy market: the systematic optimization of the energy system. Behind this phrase is an intelligent network infrastructure the Smart Grid. To meet the growing demand for power, an intelligent and flexible grid infrastructure, smart generation, and smart buildings will be essential. In traditional power grids, power generation follows load. But in the future, power consumption will follow generation rather than vice versa. Prime examples here are electric cars that can be charged or operated at night drawing on cheap wind power. This means we are heading towards a paradigm shift. Towards leaving unidirectional energy and communications flows behind for bidirectional power flows. Siemens, a worldwide leader in the field of Smart Grid technology, makes possible the vertical and horizontal integration of all elements within a Smart Grid and beyond. Even better, these products, systems, and solutions are readily available. Discover on the following pages how a Smart Grid can become reality with Siemens technology.

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The entire energy conversion chain

Advantages across the board: Smart Grid technology with Siemens as your partner As the worlds only integrated energy infrastructure company covering the entire energy conversion chain, Siemens delivers intelligent, trendsetting answers to the increasingly complex challenges the energy business faces. The close and smooth interaction of all fields of technology and expertise at Siemens results in products, solutions, and services that meet the challenges of the changing energy landscape. Siemens comprehensive range of Smart Grid technologies emphasizes this leading role impressively. Apart from the much discussed environmental advantages, Smart Grid technology brings clear-cut benefits for all stakeholders along the energy conversion chain: reduction in power-generation-related carbon dioxide emissions through reduction in transmission losses and grid access for large wind, hydro, and solar power plants reduction in power-consumption-related carbon dioxide emissions through integration of smart buildings

better power quality on the various voltage levels enhanced system stability energy cost savings for building operators and increased network performance for utilities through active participation of buildings in Smart Grids grid integration of decentralized generation through intelligent Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) possibility for bidirectional energy flow higher system security improved monitoring higher degree of operational safety reduced life cycle costs

Find out what the future holds Join us for a journey into the future. Experience an average workday in a world with a decentralized and proactive energy network that lets consumption follow generation. See for yourself how we all will look at electricity tomorrow and how Smart Grid technology will make our lives easier, cleaner, and more comfortable.

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A reliable, comprehensive, and flexible charging infrastructure: its real.

An idea over 100 years old is back in the center of attention

Climate change, gas prices, the increasing demand for mobility, new technological developments for engines and batteries all these factors contribute to the fact that an old idea is coming back to life: electric automobiles, e-cars, are creating a surge of development and are the cause of exciting new alliances. Cars are turning into mobile energy storage units with the ability to re-feed energy back to Smart Grids. E-cars, therefore, become much more than environmentally compatible vehicles: they are an important element of an intelligent energy infrastructure and contribute to the grids ability to compensate for fluctuating infeed from renewables and distributed generation units.

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The early morning business meeting in downtown Los Angeles is over, and you are on your way back to your office in Las Vegas. Driving in this megacity can sometimes be quite stressful. But nowadays, e-cars and flexible charging concepts have become state-of-the-art solutions that considerably reduce the strain on the environment and on congested cities. It is amazing how easily and flexibly you can recharge your vehicle. Now all you have to do is beat traffic and youre on your way back.

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Seamless integration of vehicles into infrastructure and environment with Real Smart Grid solutions We are on the verge of total electrification of vehicles today. The number of electric vehicles worldwide is expected to rise to 12 million by the year 2020 a number that bears huge potential. Our answer is a selfintegrating network that guarantees individual mobility at any time and makes sure energy is available in a sustainable manner.

An integrated approach for the entire e-car infrastructure including various charging solutions, information and communication technologies, and billing solutions that make possible the seamless interaction of e-cars, operation centers, and power grid.

A grid that can consistently juggle surges of generation and consumption: its real.

Grids that are efficient, flexible, reliable, decentralized, and smart

Societys expectations towards utilities and network operators are continuously growing. We are experiencing more and more market liberalization, and the political pressure for higher transparency is on operators. Energy networks have to become more efficient, more flexible, more reliable, and more decentralized, and they need intelligent concepts for the increased amount of renewable energy being generated all over the world. Distributed power management As the Smart Grid develops into a decentralized energy network offering maximized efficiency for all participants, reliability also needs to be guaranteed at all times. This calls for an overall solution that integrates all approaches and is already perfectly suited for tomorrows energy mix. In a nutshell: an intelligent and smart infrastructure offering increased observability and controllability, fault protection and analysis, and a flexible and proactively operating infrastructure.

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There is no place at dusk like Las Vegas. Bright lights, big city. Like every day at this hour, the entire city turns into a firework of kitsch and illumination. It is amazing how electricity grids can handle such instant peaks in power demand and keep supply consistent throughout the entire network. Smart Grids adapt to the inconsistent levels of generation and consumption and can easily handle distributed power generation as well, ensuring grid intelligence that guarantees energy knows where it is needed. Pretty impressive, you think, while you are heading out east toward Calico Ridge, where your office building is.

Real solutions

The higher degree of automation and self-healing applications reduce operational and maintenance efforts and, therefore, enhance the profitability of electrical networks. Consequently, telecontrol and online monitoring of substations improve operational safety. Moreover, the standardization of protocols and interfaces makes network solutions more flexible and accessible. Smart metering solutions from Siemens combine sophisticated metering functions, the management of distribution networks, and the integration of back-end IT systems. These solutions were specially developed to suit the new challenges the liberalized energy market poses on distribution network operators and energy retailers and ensures maximum transparency for end customers. This allows network distribution operators to optimize essential key processes and offer new services like flexible billing to their energy suppliers and customers.

Distribution Management System (DMS) Distribution automation and protection Power electronics (SIPLINK) Smart metering

A building that communicates with the grid reduces your energy costs, and even earns you money: its real.

Actively engaging consumers in a maximally efficient network

Buildings account for 40 % of the worlds energy consumption and 20 % of total CO2 emissions. Therefore, Smart Buildings play a central role in the Smart Grid as they provide a huge potential for energy efficiency. Actively influencing their consumption and generation, Smart Buildings support grid stability and allow generators to consider other options before adding new generation facilities. Leveraging e-cars and related energy storage technologies, Smart Buildings have become a key component of the Smart Grid. How Smart is a Smart Building? Smart Building optimize their own energy flow by balancing consumption, storage capacity and decentralized generation Interacting with the grid, Smart Buildings can decide on energy purchasing or selling based on current tariff levels Smart Building clusters become an interactive part of the grid by providing significant generation capacity and demand management potential E-cars will become an additional flexible storage capacity for Smart Buildings
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Smart consumption

You are back at the office. It is late afternoon, and the current heat wave has lasted two weeks now. You turn away from your computer and the heaps of e-mails, and you look out of the window at the picturesque, ever-growing city you call home. It persistently amazes you how high-tech this former town has become, and you wonder how the grid can dependably keep up with the electricity demand of this growing metropolitan area. But perhaps what is even more amazing for you is how your building has managed to stay comfortable throughout that heat wave and still has managed to save tons of cash on energy costs. Of course, since you oversee energy costs, you are well aware of the reason: Your building knows to store energy when prices are most favourable for later use when prices are much higher. It even knows the best time to deploy renewable energy sources for its own use and when to sell supply back to the grid.

Real solutions

Real answers for energy optimisation in buildings Siemens smart building solutions make it possible for buildings to take advantage of automated demand response programs that immediately shift electricity demand from the least critical functions to where power is most needed. Furthermore, they automatically store energy for later use when prices are most favorable. They even know the best time to use one-site renewable sources like sun or wind and when to refeed energy to the grid, thus making money on energy instead of spending it. Buildings, so far among the biggest energy consumers, are turning into sources of energy. That is why their active participation in a Smart Grid structure is essential for more energy efficiency, minimized operational costs. Siemens technologies for metering, enhanced forecasting, and the active management of a buildings energy consumption, generation, and storage make possible this active participation in the power supply system.

Building Management System Building Energy Management System Demand response Energy Services Smart Metering Solutions

A self-healing network that detects faults and corrects them automatically: its real.

Getting a grip on the entire system

Power infeed from different sources into previously separated power systems often calls for extraordinary power transmission and distribution solutions. Despite the challenges this poses, however, the interconnection of different regions, countries, or even continents remains a viable option for providing certain areas with economical access to power. As a solution provider with extensive experience throughout the entire energy conversion chain, Siemens has already implemented a number of projects linking power systems or connecting decentralized generating units to the grid. In each case, conditions were unique. And because Siemens makes a point of providing the customers with the most costefficient results, the solutions, all based on various technologies, are unique as well. The intelligent, comprehensively proactive, and highly efficient properties of a Smart Grid are based on a highly reliable power generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure, as well as consistent data communication. The highest possible degree of proactive flexibility, as well as stringent monitoring and control, comprehensive fault protection and analysis, and maximal operational safety and security are of the utmost importance when it comes to fully bringing to bear all strengths and capabilities of the Smart Grid.
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Efficient network

After a long day you decide to relax on the couch. You start reading a magazine on new technology and constant innovations in energy networks. Smart Grids can now detect and repair faults before they can ever turn into a problem. Just this morning you were talking to a business partner who wanted to turn his power plant structure into a self-healing network. Five years ago you would have answered: Dream on! this morning you asked: What are you waiting for? You ponder that the energy world is developing at amazing speed, while a thunderstorm is rumbling outside your living room window. A pretty good feeling, knowing everything will be fine, even if the worst possible thunderstorm strikes the middle of the city.

Real solutions
Reduction in transmission losses increase in system security Technologies from Siemens such as high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission and flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) help connect large-scale wind, hydro, and solar power generation to the grid even when generation takes place hundreds, or even thousands, of kilometers away from the centers of consumption. However, the constitutive element of the Smart Grid is state-of-the-art communication. Siemens communications solutions enable online monitoring and control of all grid assets, which in turn means fastest possible reaction to faults and minimized downtimes. In many cases intelligent substation automation and protection solutions in combination with the Energy Management System (EMS) will even enable the Smart Grid to react autonomously. Advanced condition monitoring solutions from Siemens help optimize grid usage through continuous information about the state of the devices in operation and high-quality evaluation for minimized downtimes, reduced life cycle costs, and an extended service life of the assets. Balancing technical and economic needs, the Siemens Grid Asset Management Suite (GAMS), a modular and SOA-based solution, additionally boosts the efficiency, transparency, and flexibility of grid asset management. Power electronics (HVDC, FACTS) Energy Management System (EMS) Smart substation automation and protection System Integrity Protection System (SIPS) Communication solutions Asset monitoring

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