Smart grid research at ARI, Virginia Tech and review of smart grid initiative in US presented by Dr.Manisa pipattanasomporn

Today, Dr.Manisa Pipattanasomporn, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at advanced research institute, United State, gave a presentation on subject overview of smart grid and relevant R&D at Virginia Tech-Advanced research institute. She visited Provincial electricity authority (PEA) ,Thailand to disseminate informations regarding to smart grid to PEA's executives and also engineers from several fields who involve in smart grid initiative project at PEA. The outlines of presentation are as follows

1. overview of smart grid

2. smart grid initiatives in the United States

3. 5 smart grid building blocks which are Standards, technologies, cyber security, legislation and education

4. current smart grid related research projects at VT-ARI

5. Other on-going research work at VT-ARI

She states that to develop the current grid into smart grid, at the initial stage, standards and legislation are most paramount factors and essentially required. Furthermore, PEA say that they have already launched project of developing of smart meter so called AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) in corporation with researcher from leading university in Thailand.