final smart grid presentation
Post on 15-Aug-2015
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What is the Smart Grid?
• “The Smart Grid represents an unprecedented opportunity to move the energy industry into a new era of reliability, availability, and efficiency that will contribute to our economic and environmental health. “(Smartgrid.gov)
• Reduced operations and management costs for utilities, and ultimately lower power costs for consumers
Benefits
• Self Healing• Predict Severe Weather Events• Detect Grid Overload• Make Appropriate Corrections• Reduced Operations, Generation, and
Maintenance Costs• Make 3-7 times the Investment back within a
few years.
Which Means the Savings are:
• SO2• 3.3 million tons/ yr./ plant x $344 per ton = ~$1
Billion!• NOx• 1.7 million tons/ yr./ plant x $850 per ton =
~$1.5 Billion!• CO2• 3.5 million tons/ yr/ plant x $16.27 per ton=
~$57 million
• Nearly $3 Billion Savings Per Plant Per Year in Emissions Costs
• With 20 Coal Fired Power Plants Run by Dominion=
• $60 BILLION PER YEAR
Jacquie L’etang mentioned it in her Journal of Business Ethics “Public relations summarize the activity as planned, deliberate communication directed towards target publics with the purpose of achieving an understanding.”
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