Smart grid e PLC: uma análise da regulação europeia e desenvolvimento de um sistema simples de integração destas tecnologias

Abstract

The electric grid is in relative technological stagnation for years. With this stagnation, the grid keeps several problems, which decrease the efficiency, and security failures, which allow energy thefts, cause faults in the power supply, and are only acknowleged by population complaints. With the aim of further improving the grid, automating it and allowing the creation of new services related to it, arises the technology known as Smart Grid. This technology can already be found in Europe and USA and for the convenience of the authors, the European situation was taken as reference for this analisys. During this work the situation of the Smart Grid regulation in Europe was analysed and the way the communication inside this new grid will be performed, focusing in the technology known as PLC. From use cases determined by the European Union, a distribution grid prototype with the incorporation of many smart functions was developed, using the technology PLC to perform the communication. This bachelor thesis shows, through the prototype, how the new electric grids will be dynamic and that PLC is a viable communication technology for the Smart Grid.