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| author | Matthew N. O. Sadiku Philip O. Adebo Sarhan M. Musa |
| author_facet | Matthew N. O. Sadiku Philip O. Adebo Sarhan M. Musa |
| contents | Energy is indispensable in our modern society. It is necessary for economic growth and development. It is crucial to tackling the most important issues such as climate change, sustainable development, health, global food security, and environmental protection. The ever-increasing cost and ever-growing demand of energy have led governments around the world to seek smart ways for generating, controlling, supplying, and saving energy. For example, using energy efficiently in smart homes saves money and reduces carbon footprint. Traditional renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics, hydroelectricity, wind power, tidal energy, and geothermal energy have greatly advanced recently. However, they cannot respond to environmental changes. Developing smart and economical generators is crucial to meet energy needs of the modern world [1]. We are in an era where everything is expected to be smart. Common examples include smart cities, smart factory, smart farming, smart healthcare, smart university, smart medication, smart water, smart materials, smart devices, smart phones, smart grid, smart homes, smart buildings, smart metering, smart watch, smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart living, and smart governance, and smart energy. Smart energy refers to an approach in which smart electricity, thermal and gas grids are combined. It is a radical, holistic, and universal approach as opposed to a single sector approach. Smart energy supply is essential for our industrial growth. It addresses the environmental impacts of the energy and transport sectors. Recently, the terms "smart energy" and "smart energy systems" have been used to expand the concept of "smart grid." While smart grids focuses mainly on the electricity sector, smart energy systems (or smart energy grids) include other sectors such heating, cooling, industry, buildings, and transportation [2]. Smart energy regions refer to regions that offer maximal quality of living to their inhabitants with a minimal consumption of energy by combining infrastructures (energy, mobility, transport, communication, etc.). Realizing this may require a robust communications infrastructure for ubiquitous and reliable information exchange among sensors and actuators. This chapter presents a brief introduction to smart energy. It begins by introducing smart energy portfolio and smart energy management. It covers some applications of smart energy. It presents some benefits and challenges of smart energy. The last section concludes with comments. |
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| publishDate | 2021 |
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| spellingShingle | Smart Energy Matthew N. O. Sadiku Philip O. Adebo Sarhan M. Musa Energy is indispensable in our modern society. It is necessary for economic growth and development. It is crucial to tackling the most important issues such as climate change, sustainable development, health, global food security, and environmental protection. The ever-increasing cost and ever-growing demand of energy have led governments around the world to seek smart ways for generating, controlling, supplying, and saving energy. For example, using energy efficiently in smart homes saves money and reduces carbon footprint. Traditional renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics, hydroelectricity, wind power, tidal energy, and geothermal energy have greatly advanced recently. However, they cannot respond to environmental changes. Developing smart and economical generators is crucial to meet energy needs of the modern world [1]. We are in an era where everything is expected to be smart. Common examples include smart cities, smart factory, smart farming, smart healthcare, smart university, smart medication, smart water, smart materials, smart devices, smart phones, smart grid, smart homes, smart buildings, smart metering, smart watch, smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart living, and smart governance, and smart energy. Smart energy refers to an approach in which smart electricity, thermal and gas grids are combined. It is a radical, holistic, and universal approach as opposed to a single sector approach. Smart energy supply is essential for our industrial growth. It addresses the environmental impacts of the energy and transport sectors. Recently, the terms "smart energy" and "smart energy systems" have been used to expand the concept of "smart grid." While smart grids focuses mainly on the electricity sector, smart energy systems (or smart energy grids) include other sectors such heating, cooling, industry, buildings, and transportation [2]. Smart energy regions refer to regions that offer maximal quality of living to their inhabitants with a minimal consumption of energy by combining infrastructures (energy, mobility, transport, communication, etc.). Realizing this may require a robust communications infrastructure for ubiquitous and reliable information exchange among sensors and actuators. This chapter presents a brief introduction to smart energy. It begins by introducing smart energy portfolio and smart energy management. It covers some applications of smart energy. It presents some benefits and challenges of smart energy. The last section concludes with comments. |
| title | Smart Energy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18516095 |