Smart Grid: meter and secondary equipment market, the first to benefit

Smart Grid: meter and secondary equipment market, the first to benefit




Grid due to an increase of "smart" word further deepened with the electronic information industry links to the information industry will bring new opportunity for development. According to experts, the main features include smart grid self-healing, compatible, interactive, optimization, integration, allowing different forms of access to electricity and so on. Its core meaning is to achieve power of information technology, digitization, automation, and interactive technology. The realization of these features requires electronic and information technology support.



Power automation equipment is one of the most critical network equipment, in the smart grid concept, primary equipment and secondary equipment, the difference is slowly reduced, the domestic power equipment companies thus have an unprecedented opportunity.



On the semiconductor industry, power grids, intelligent application of the integrated circuit also put forward higher requirements for Wang Zhihua, deputy director of Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, said that the smart grid systems to be able to sense overload and can allocate the power to prevent the system failure or to minimize the impact of failure. Smart Grid to use digital technology, including the use of intelligent power consumption meter testing, through the network of sensors and computer system control burst generators, according to consumer demand, production of electrical energy, thereby enhancing transmission efficiency. Smart grid to allow a distributed alternative energy into the grid, which also integrated circuits and semiconductor power devices to provide a market opportunity. Such as wind power, rectifier devices will need to convert alternating current instability in DC, and then convert the power inverter AC power grid can be accepted after the delivery to the power grid to go. The formation of the solar cell power generation DC, the same has to go through before it can convert the power inverter grid. Both the rectifier or the inverter, the core of all power semiconductor devices. The distributed energy in the input grid in the process of measurement will have to rely on integrated circuits.



The reporters found, IT giants and semiconductor makers have been an active part in the smart power grid. Intel China's Ministry of Industry Co-operation and high-end solutions for enterprise customers in China Region Manager, Mao Halinen, told reporters that Intel has worked with the State Grid Corporation has established a joint laboratory, integrated high-performance computing and embedded technology, using Intel-based server, network modeling and simulation, to achieve automation of network isolation and power stations. NXP, Greater China director of marketing for multi-market products, said Jin Yujie, NXP Semiconductors product line to meet the diverse areas of power system needs of a variety of electronic components present, their products are mainly used in electric power terminal, a negative control, set copy and single-phase / three phase energy meters.



Experts believe that, from the power plant to the grid, to the substation, to the user, through the Intelligent Gateway constitute the smart grid will form a value chain. The observation of the current development trend, smart meters and the second device will be the value chain in this part of the first to benefit in the U.S. and some European countries, smart meter configuration is referred to the first step of development. It is reported that China also plans to next year on 40 million smart meters, while the national power grid has also recently begun tendering for smart meters. Freescale, NXP and other semiconductor companies have launched this year, a number of new smart metering products and solutions to enhance the promotion of this market.



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