Infrastructures and subsystems that provide for the generation and physical movement of ElectricityA form of Energy and set of physical phenomena that result f... Click for more across the end-to-end Power SystemA highly complex cyber-physical and transactional System tha... Click for more, including Generation PlantAn Energy Resource primarily designed for production of Elec... Click for more, Transmission NetworksThe High Voltage (HV) network that transports Power over lon... Click for more, Distribution NetworksA network that transports Electricity from the Bulk Supply P... Click for more, SubstationsA designated location, typically with a Transmission Network... Click for more, Embedded NetworksA localised electricity network that is connected to the wid... Click for more, MicrogridsA group of interconnected Customer Loads, Generation Plant a... Click for more and diverse Energy ResourcesA universal term for all technologies that provide one or se... Click for more.
While historically designed for unidirectional operational, today Electricity Infrastructure increasingly experiences bi-directional Power FlowsThe movement of electric Power within a Grid, historically f... Click for more, especially in the Distribution Networks. A sample of conventional and emerging examples include:
- PowerElectrical represents rate at which Energy is transferred th... Click for more Flows from the Bulk Power SystemThe large-scale Generation Plant and other Energy Resources ... Click for more through the Transmission Networks to Bulk Supply Points (BSP)The point at which Electricity supplied by the Transmission ... Click for more.
- Power flows from BSP through Distribution Networks to Connection PointsThe agreed point of Electricity supply established between ... Click for more for each CustomerThe human individuals, families, organisations, institutions... Click for more.
- Storage of excess Renewable EnergyGeneration Plant that is powered by natural energy sources t... Click for more output for subsequent injection to the Power System at periods of Peak DemandRefer to Maximum Demand. Click for more.
- Customer-owned Distributed Photovoltaics (DPV)Solar Photovoltaic panel installations connected to the Dist... Click for more and Battery Energy Storage SystemsDirect systems involve the flow of an electric charge in a s... Click for more (BESSAn electrochemical Energy Storage device that stores the out... Click for more) that provide Power to their own LoadsA term that is sometimes used synonymously with Demand, but ... Click for more and/or exports to the local Distribution Network.