General Smart Grid Objectives
As defined by DOE/NETL
- Enabling informed participation by customers
- Accommodating all generation and storage options
- Enabling new products, services, and markets
- Providing the power quality for the range of needs in the 21st century economy
- Optimizing asset utilization and operating efficiently
- Addressing disturbances through automated prevention, containment, and restoration
- Operating resiliently against all hazards.
Motivation for this project
- The A&M Facilities Office already has an excellent plan for improvement of the electricity supply and use on campus and SECI will complement this plan
- The cost of electricity production and use is scrutinized by the administration seeking savings and innovative ways such as SECI to produce savings
- Currently the federal government is encouraging the Smart Grid implementation such as SECI by providing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds
- Both the A&M staff responsible for electric energy production and delivery and A&M faculties proposing SECI are seeing sustainable solutions as common goal
- The expertise needed to specify and implement SECI solutions is readily available on TAMU Campus and complements industry solution offerings
- Scores of companies are actively pursuing the Smart Grid solutions and SECI meets business objectives of many prospective industry partners
For more details, please visit Smart Energy Campus Initiative website.