A Widespread Review of Smart Grids Towards Smart Cities

Mina Farmanbar, Kiyan Parham, Øystein Arild and Chunming Rong
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Mina Farmanbar: Faculty of Science and Technology, Engineering, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
Kiyan Parham: Faculty of Science and Technology, Engineering, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
Øystein Arild: Faculty of Science and Technology, Engineering, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
Chunming Rong: Faculty of Science and Technology, Engineering, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 23, 1-18

Abstract: Nowadays, the importance of energy management and optimization by means of smart devices has arisen as an important issue. On the other hand, the intelligent application of smart devices stands as a key element in establishing smart cities, which have been suggested as the solution to complicated future urbanization difficulties in coming years. Considering the scarcity of traditional fossil fuels in the near future, besides their ecological problems the new smart grids have demonstrated the potential to merge the non-renewable and renewable energy resources into each other leading to the reduction of environmental problems and optimizing operating costs. The current paper clarifies the importance of smart grids in launching smart cities by reviewing the advancement of micro/nano grids, applications of renewable energies, energy-storage technologies, smart water grids in smart cities. Additionally a review of the major European smart city projects has been carried out. These will offer a wider vision for researchers in the operation, monitoring, control and audit of smart-grid systems.

Keywords: smart city; smart grid; solar; wind; energy storage; smart water grid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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