TITLE:
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies Using Smart Grids: Study Case on NIPE Building at UNICAMP Campus
AUTHORS:
M. D. Berni, P. C. Manduca, S. V. Bajay, J. T. V. Pereira, J. T. Fantinelli
KEYWORDS:
Smart Grids, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Smart Building, Generation and Distribution System, Decentralized Generation
JOURNAL NAME:
Smart Grid and Renewable Energy,
Vol.5 No.8,
August
8,
2014
ABSTRACT: In its broadest interpretation, the smart grid vision sees the future of
power industry transformed by the introduction of intelligent two-way
communications, ubiquitous metering and measurement. This enables much finer
control of energy flows and the integration and efficient use of renewable
forms of energy, energy efficiency methodologies and technologies, as well as
many other advanced technologies, techniques and processes that wouldn’t have
been practicable until present. The smart grid vision also enables the creation
of more reliable, more robust and more secure power supply infrastructure, and
helps optimize the enormous investments required to build and operate the
physical infrastructure required. The smart grid promises to revolutionize the
electric power business that has been in place for the past 75 years. This work
discusses the efficiency, targeted at the consumer units of electricity, with a
view to sustainability and potential for technological innovation. The issue is
addressed from two perspectives: the systems for generation and power
distribution, and the design of a building “smart energy”. Because of the
novelty of the subject in our country, the concepts presented and treated
throughout this work come from material obtained at events and specialized
sites on electric power system in Brazil and worldwide, being accompanied by
information and data from NIPE’s building at University of Campinas’s campus case
study in which it exemplifies the applicability of the techniques and recommended
technologies.