Safety Considerations for Smart Grid Technology Equipment
One of the biggest frontiers in electrical engineering in this early part of the 21st century is the development and implementation of smart grid technology.
Development of greener technologies and alternative fuels has become a global economic priority, so smart grid technology has the potential to be one of the next great technological waves. I can jump-start stagnated economies, and can fundamentally change the way power is delivered to consumers of electricity worldwide. The environmental benefits that smart grid technology can deliver are collectively demanded by most of Earth’s inhabitants at this time, and the decrease in dependence on fossil fuels and other non-renewable power sources is also sought through this new technology.
Smart grid technology can be viewed as a merging of power systems, information technology, telecommunications, switchgear, and local power generation, along with other fields that were once electrical technologies of separated industries. As these technologies become merged, much of the safety considerations will have to be merged and reconciled as well, particularly at interfaces. In some cases, new insight may have to be given to safety that were not necessary in the past.
This paper explores the safety considerations that should be addressed in the design of smart grid technology equipment, particularly in low-voltage AC power applications operating below 1000 V AC. It discusses existing product safety standards involved in smart grid technologies and known regulatory issues. It also looks at existing product safety requirements of the non-merged technologies and analyzes the affect on safety for this equipment when they become merged.
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- New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
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- Starts 21 March 2011 06:00 PM UTC
- Ends 26 April 2011 08:00 PM UTC
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Don Gies
Biography:
Don Gies has been a product compliance engineer for over 25 years. Since 1989, Mr. Gies has worked at AT&T-Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies/Alcatel-Lucent as a product safety engineer, responsible for obtaining product safety certifications for his company’s telephone and information processing equipment from domestic and international product safety organizations.
Mr. Gies has become a leading subject matter expert for his company in the field of global product safety compliance, working primarily with Alcatel-Lucent's wireless base station equipment.
Mr. Gies is a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy.
Prior to working at AT&T, Mr. Gies was a Tempest engineer for Honeywell-Signal Analysis Center, where he worked on various secure communications projects for the US Army Communications -Electronics Command.
Mr. Gies graduated from Rutgers University - College of Engineering as an electrical engineer. He is an iNARTE Certified Product Safety Engineer.
Address:Michigan, United States
Don Gies
Biography:
Address:Michigan, United States
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Talk: 6:30 pm