SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Sustainable community energy systems are an integrated approach to reduce the environmental impacts of supplying the energy requirements of a community. Here, community is a broader term. That it could be the University of Arkansas campus, a neighborhood, and industrial park, or the city of Fayetteville. Such an energy system uses distributed generation with several enabling technologies, such as renewable energy sources, combined heat and power, and energy storage... The Smart Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems (SSEES) group forms part of POETS, a NSF ERC, GRAPES, a NSF I/UCRC, and NCREPT at the University of Arkansas... The power grids throughout the world are changing by moving from centralized power sources and unidirectional power flows to distributed power sources and bidirectional power flows. The new grids are the so-called "smart grids". Several initiatives are taking place worldwide to develop a "smart(er) grid" to satisfy reliability and robust requirements of the 21 st..

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