TY - GEN
T1 - Need for smart transmission grid in Pakistan
T2 - 2013 IEEE Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium, BEIAC 2013
AU - Ali, Imran
AU - Butt, Faran Awais
AU - Malik, Ahmed
AU - Khalid, Talha
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Pakistan, a developing country, full of natural resources and manpower with population exceeding 176.74 million has a lot of potential in fulfilling its energy requirements. However, the country is facing severe shortage of electricity due to overloading, mismanagement, transmission line losses, electricity theft issues, aged equipment, poor maintenance and questionable monitoring and control. These issues have really put the power sector to a downfall. In Pakistan, transmission line losses are very high as compared to other countries. Each year these losses are increasing which is becoming a challenge for the country. Existing aged Transmission Grids (TGs) are very poorly managed, rendering them unreliable, insufficient, and unaffordable. Intelligent energy management using advanced digital technology combined with power electronics and sensors can greatly improve transmission lines efficiency. In this paper, need for Smart Transmission Grid (STG) and possible technical and non-technical challenges are focused; proposed solution is given to tackle with these on-going issues which are the main obstacles for its practical implementation.
AB - Pakistan, a developing country, full of natural resources and manpower with population exceeding 176.74 million has a lot of potential in fulfilling its energy requirements. However, the country is facing severe shortage of electricity due to overloading, mismanagement, transmission line losses, electricity theft issues, aged equipment, poor maintenance and questionable monitoring and control. These issues have really put the power sector to a downfall. In Pakistan, transmission line losses are very high as compared to other countries. Each year these losses are increasing which is becoming a challenge for the country. Existing aged Transmission Grids (TGs) are very poorly managed, rendering them unreliable, insufficient, and unaffordable. Intelligent energy management using advanced digital technology combined with power electronics and sensors can greatly improve transmission lines efficiency. In this paper, need for Smart Transmission Grid (STG) and possible technical and non-technical challenges are focused; proposed solution is given to tackle with these on-going issues which are the main obstacles for its practical implementation.
KW - Smart transmission
KW - non-technical losses
KW - technical losses
KW - transmission grid
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84883089411
U2 - 10.1109/BEIAC.2013.6560101
DO - 10.1109/BEIAC.2013.6560101
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883089411
SN - 9781467359689
T3 - BEIAC 2013 - 2013 IEEE Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium
SP - 145
EP - 149
BT - BEIAC 2013 - 2013 IEEE Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium
Y2 - 7 April 2013 through 9 April 2013
ER -