GEC Ecomagination Challenge Submission
Ecomagination Challenge
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Grid Futures : A Technical Vision
Existing National Grid Infrastructure
Notes: Roots are physically connected underground in a
“Ribbon Mesh”, but not the trunks! The “Virtual Ring Circuit ” on ground is shown dashed, forming a packet-switched route
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 Global Economic Expansion
 Energy provision for each and all on demand
 Effective Global Future Energy Provision requires effective Global leadership, operating within an
 ethical social and environmental context
 with the emphasis on providing opportunities for work and enterprise
 balancing local and centralised energy generation
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 Wind
 Ocean Current
 Tidal Flow and Wave
 Solar, Geothermal
 Cleaner Nuclear
 Cleaner Coal
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 Networked Smart UPSs featuring
 Packet-switched, cable-Integrated DC power distribution
 Domestic switched mode uninterruptible Power Supplies (smart
UPSs)
 Street hub switches
 Networked device mapping
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 Greener energy provision
 Climate stabilisation
 Low Environmental Impact Grid
 Sustainable energy generation
 Renewable resources
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 Growing Global Demand for Energy
 Climate Stabilisation
 Segmentation of work
 Workload gets divided up within communities
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“Artificial Ethics”
 Fairness and equality of access to scarce resources (work)
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Microsoft with New Scientist “Visions of the Future”
 Runner-up, Science Museum,
London, May 2008
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•Creating local opportunities
•Provision of work in the community
•Communication
•“Knowledge alone is Power”
•‘Smart Power is Knowledge’
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 Energy generation
 within a distributed environment
 within an embedded environment
 Sustainable resource provision
 the digital rainforest
 Charge caching intermittent supply
 using electric vehicle battery
Ecomagination Challenge banks
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Digital Rainforest Analogy Further Developed
Existing National Grid Infrastructure
Peripheral Grid Extension
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 Open up new possibilities for smarter communication of power requirements
 Parity of Charge Packets
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Adapting the SHEL Model
 Broadened human, social, environmental and engineering interactions (interfaces)
Human Factors Analysis
Object-Oriented Programming
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Messaging Protocols
Requirements Analysis
Top-down / bottom-up design approach
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Greenware
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 Analogue Amazon
 Existing National Grid AC Infrastructure anologous to a river
 Forest Water table retention by forest canopy is analogous to charge retention by local peripheral battery caches
 Digital Canopy
 Local distributed micro-generation and charge retention
 Hybrid Branch Interfaces (refer to Figure)
 Electric vehicle fuel stations
 local substations
 backed up with community micro-CHP generation
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 Slow, mechanical circuit-switched network
 less efficient; technology has moved on
 Changing Supply and Demand Requirements
 Environmental sourced supply intermittency
 More home working and aging population
 remote manufacturing locations
 Energy Security
 Shortages of oil and gas, dependency on foreign suppliers
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 AC Vs. DC
 Tesla Vs. Edison
 AC is no longer better than DC!
 Modern switching technology developments
 Keynesian Economics
 A model Post Great Depression infrastructure government spending initiative
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 More Centralisation and Macro-Generation or more Distributed Micro-Generation?
 More Wind?
 More Coal?
 More Nuclear?
 More Wave Ocean and Tidal Flow?
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 Deploy
 Ocean and Tidal Flow generation offshore peripherally
 Local DC micro-generation
 Local DC charge caching
 Cleaner coal AC generation upgrade centrally
 Low environmental impact DC Smart Grid Extension
 Develop test models further to CFD simulation
 Lobby for an acceptable
 smart power grid standardization from the Application Layer down (pto)
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 Mesh Topology Figs. 1 a b c & d
 Electric Fuel Station as Substation Node Fig.4
 The Open Systems Interface Transport Fig. 2
Control / Internet Protocol Model
 Application Layer Development
 Presentation Layer Development
 Distributed (Cloud) Computing
 Reading
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Mesh Wiring Topology
Street Level Repeater
Hubs form a V.A.N.
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Mesh Topology
Street Wiring
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Fig. 4
Electric Fuel Station as Sub-station
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43 33KVAC
11KV AC
33KVAC
42 400KV -> 132KVAC
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Backbone DC Segments
CHP
Generator
Intermittent
11KVDC / 3.3KVDC
Chopping Packetswitched
Sub Station Node
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12VDC
Charging
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44 3.3KVDC
Packet-
Switched
3.3KVDC drive-through packet-switched forecourt
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49 230VDC chopped packet switched
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3KVDC ->230VDC
Packet-switched local ring energy cache 41
Electric fuel station charging (intermittent)
Ethernet or token ring
49 230VDC Packet-switched
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3.3KVDC
Packet-
Switched
Packet switching charge-caching power router step-up
3.3KVDC -> 11KVDC
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Fig. 2
TCP/IP Stack
TCP/IP Protocol Stack 16
Application (the Grid controllers displays
with manual power control override commands)
IIS & Winsock APIs, remote database stubs
with pointers for charge accounting,
client user HMIs[1]
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Application
Header
User Data the actual chopped charge pulse transmitted
User
Data
TCP
Application ‘Message’
IP
Ethernet Driver
Ethernet
Transmission
Line (the physical network cable
Comprising the power line)
Ethernet
Header
14 Bytes
IP
Header
TCP
Header
The Power Packet containing the
Chopped Charge (Application Data)
TCP Segment (addressed charge packet)
TCP
Header
The Power Packet containing the
Chopped Charge (Application Data)
IP Datagram (Packet)
IP
Header
20 Bytes
TCP
Header
20 Bytes
The Power Packet containing the
Chopped Charge (Application Data)
Variable length
Ethernet Frame 20
46 – 1,500 Bytes (variable) x 8 = 12,000 bits per Frame
Ethernet
Trailer
4 Bytes
21 direction of switched packet charge travel throu gh one network leg at 1-10 mbps.
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 Distributed (standardised) Component Object model for the non-standard top of the TCP/IP protocol stack
 Design for semi-autonomous home browser console operation ‘bottom-up’
 Allows remote database access (ordering of power supply)
 Complex real-time visual data display and modelling
 Back-end main-frame data and number crunching
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 Extensible Markup Language XML allows
 ongoing customisation, optimisation
 revisions to embedded code fragments
 additions of ‘known and unknown (un)knowns’
 improvements as science explains ‘black box systems patches’ e.g. demand and supply routing patterns in better detail (learing predictive neural networks)
 learned improvements to heuristic algorithms
 pre-processed, economical data exchange
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 Storm and crash-proof damage-hardened historical and learned data storage and backup
 Avoiding data-processing bottlenecks
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Please refer to Slide Notes enclosed
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