Answer 2

Label: Presentation
Due Date:  Thursday, 2/19 by 8AM
1.  What is your EQ?

What is the best way to optimize the electrical grid to ensure maximum operating efficiency?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

Integrate microgrids into the electrical grid system.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

Develop new standards and codes.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

For the following reasons, let us look at the benefits of mandatory vegetation management (a standard implemented into our electric code).

1. They can drive the industry towards controlling important risks in bulk power transmission systems. One of the most important risks in bulk power transmission systems is natural disaster. This particular standard ensures that these systems have adequate protective control settings that contribute to the prevention of disasters.
2. They help increase the reliability of the electrical grid by ensuring the interoperability of equipment. The interoperability of equipment is crucial to these systems working properly because they can't communicate, exchange data, and use the info they have been given without it.
3. They facilitate the integration of renewable energy into the power system. Standards, such as the one fore-mentioned, keep areas clean to ensure a seamless grid integration of variable renewables.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

Vaessen, Peter. "How Do You Cope with the "double Risk Trend" in Reliability? (Part 1)." Web log post. DNV GL Blog Utility of the Future. N.p., 26 June 2014. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

Vaessen, Peter. "How Do You Cope with the "double Risk Trend" in Reliability? (Part 2)." Web log post. DNV GL Blog Utility of the Future. N.p., 26 June 2014. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

As our networking increases and electronic information exchange develops, it is becoming increasingly apparent that a double risk trend is emerging. "We are heading towards unprecedented changes in the power system caused by the unstoppable electrification and transition to a sustainable energy supply." According to Peter Vaessen, this trend urges governments and transmission system operators to take measures to improve the availability of the system through standards and codes. This becomes especially crucial as our power system integrates new technology, which makes it more complex and interdependent.

On Friday, 2/20 for Advisory #2, you will be presenting what you have from this blog.  The presentation is more like a share-out and should not last longer than 2 minutes. You don't need a visual, and you should not read what you have written.