Digital Grid: New Internet-Like Multi-directional Power Supply

by Rikiya Abe

Overview

This book is about Digital Grids, which eliminate the electrical constraints of power grids, provide a mechanism for free electricity trading, make full use of renewable energy, and remove human energy constraints.

It is rare to experience an era of great change that shakes the social structure. The great transformation of the social structure brought about by the Internet is just one of them. It is doubtful that people at the time when that transformation began could realize just how great and momentous the change would be, but now all indications are that the energy industry will bring about a major transformation of the social structure. This book, The Digital Grid, aims to show the far-reaching effects of that concept and how it will be realized.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789819942800
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	08/16/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	386 KB

About the Author

Rikiya Abe (Ph.D.) is the CEO of DG Capital Group Corporation. The company, along with its subsidiaries, produces grid-forming inverters (DGR) using digital grid technology and operates AC main grid with grid forming that supplies synchronizing force and inertia.  DGR also provides primarily renewable energy sources with a duplicated DC sub-grid redundant to the AC grid. They also design small wind turbines and DC generators. These were established to incorporate renewable energy sources into power systems with many constraints. Dr. Abe also serves as the representative director of the non-profit Digital Grid Consortium, which promotes digital grids through educational activities and consulting. With years of experience as an electrical engineer at J-POWER, a Japanese wholesale electricity company, Dr. Abe dedicated his research and development efforts to the concept of digital grids as a specially appointed professor under the direct control of the president of the Universityof Tokyo since 2008. In 2012, he founded WASSHA, which provides renewable energy in un-electrified areas. Furthermore, he established the Digital Grid Company in 2017, constructing a private market for energy and environmental values in Japan, facilitating transactions between many power generators and consumers.

Table of Contents

Dissecting the Power System.- The Curse of the Power System.- The Mechanism of Synchronous Power Systems.- The Inevitability of Power Company Gigantism.- The Power System's Struggle with Renewable Energy.- Digital Grid.- Escaping the Curse of Power Systems.- The Birth of the Digital Grid.- Cell Mechanism Favorable for Renewables.- The Rise of Small-Scale Autonomous Distributed Power Systems.- Energy Sources and Timing Pulses from the Universe.- Power Internet.- The World of Ubiquitous Inverters.- Power Packets and Commercialization.- The Power Internet.- Energy-Centric Economy.- Power Shift from Producers to Consumers.- Decentralization from Urban Concentration to Affluent Regions.- The Expanding Renewable Energy Economy.- Paradigm Shift in Energy Systems.- The Enormity of the Untapped Market.- Digital Grid Proposals.- The World Seven Years Later.- What Changed and Started over Seven Years.- The New Power Platform Begins.- Epilogue.