The Shocking Secrets of the Electric Grid !!! Are Current Fears - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Shocking Secrets of the Electric Grid !!! Are Current Fears - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Shocking Secrets of the Electric Grid !!! Are Current Fears That It Can Be Hacked Well Grounded? Eastern Western Texas Transmission G L Generation Load Kilowatt = 1 thousand watts Megawatt = 1 million watts Gigawatt = 1
The Shocking Secrets
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Are Current Fears That It Can Be Hacked Well Grounded?
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- Western
- Texas
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- Nuclear
- Coal
- Natural Gas
- Fuel Oil
- Landfill Gas
- Hydroelectric
- Tidal
- Geothermal
- Wind
- Solar
Fuel Purchase Maint. Schedule Plant Operation
- Availability
- Transmission Path
- Capacity
- Cost
- Efficiency
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Current: A flow of electric charge Amperage: Measure of current Voltage: Pressure of current Watt: Work energy of current
Alternating Current
GIS
Geospatial Information Systems
CAD Outage Dispatch Maint. Schedule
Computer-Aided Design
- Inductance
- Resistance
Load Profile
- Seasonal
- Week day
- Hourly
Load Forecast
SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
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