+1 862 207 3288 1. Who runs the electric grid? The North American Electric Reliability Corporation has a role to play in the operation and reliability of the electric grid. Write a brief description of the organization, its members and how it functions.
2. Why is long distance power transmission sent on high voltage (high tension) wires? Compare two transmission lines: one at twice the voltage of the second. Which of the two lines is most advantageous to a utility company? How much is the advantage?
Session 7. Readings and References:
1. A demo and information on electromagnetic induction
http://sirius.ucsc.edu/demoweb/cgi-bin/?e_m-electmag-faraday.
2. DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
http://energy.gov/oe/office-electricity-delivery-and-energy-reliability
3. EIA page on Electricity Data. http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelelectric.html
4. The Grid, DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
http://www.oe.energy.gov/SmartGridIntroduction.htm
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/tribalenergy/guide/electricity_grid_basics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid
5. Roger Anderson, The Smart Grid http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/10-50_Anderson_120604_120713.pdf
6. Eric J. Lerner, What’s Wrong with the Grid?, The Industrial Physicist, 2004
http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-9/iss-5/p8.html
7. New Generation of Superconductor Equipment for the Electric Power Grid,
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1603610
8. Grant, Starr and Overbye, The Supergrid, Scientific American, July, 2006.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-power-grid-for-the-hydr-2006-07&page=1
9. The Smart Grid, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT 🙂
