Modernization of Rural Electric Infrastructure

Title

Modernization of Rural Electric Infrastructure

Creator

Gunavathi R.; Karthikeyan G.

Description

In the recent digital era, the energy sector in India is truly challenging. But some way or another digital technology has the potential to change the scenario of energy supply in industry. One of the important developments in this decade is the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This technology will help us to control smart software and optimize our decision-making and operations. We cannot ignore the need of energy to become sustainable after the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT). Smart grid technology in IoT is used to detect even minute changes in electricity supply and demand. These two technologies (AI and IOT) jointly provide us a magical tool to improve operational performance in the energy industry. In rural areas, there is a lack of electricity infrastructure supply and demand technologies. A large portion electricity supply is shifting from manufacturing industry to rural areas. They are using grid technology to transform electricity and the load is highly variable. From the demand side, lack of infrastructure and industrial equipment affect consumer devices. An increasing need for electricity in all aspects presents a significant challenge to utilization and cost efficiency. An important issue for the delivery of electricity to rural areas is the infrastructure and administrative policies and regulations. Power plants need to be constructed in rural areas to supply the electricity. This is the modernization of a rural electricity infrastructure. In modernization techniques, smart grid technology can be used to meet low carbon emission and cost-efficiency. It will be interconnected with the traditional grid architecture of electricity energy. Based on recent research, the smart grid should be robust and agile and it might dynamically optimize the grid operations, energy-efficient resources, and so on. Without affecting the nature of village environments, an alternate technology, such as the consumption of solar energy, can also be mutually considered in order to utilize renewable energy. In this chapter we focus on the comparison of traditional and modern technology used for the supply and demand of electricity in rural areas, issues on the implementation of modern technologies, research and development in modernization of electric power systems, and so on. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.

Source

Power Systems, pp. 229-252.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Subject

grid technology; renewable energy; rural electricity infrastructure; smart grid policies; solar energy; sustainable energy; wind energy

Coverage

Gunavathi R., CHRIST University, Lavasa, India; Karthikeyan G., Sree Saraswathi Thyagraja College, Pollachi, Coimbatore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 16121287

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15044-9_11

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