How to Achieve Completely Autonomous Power in the Next Generation of Smart Grids

The paradigm of future power systems described here offers a method of standardizing the interface of all electrical supplies, including conventional power plants and new add-ons, such as wind/solar farms, electrical vehicles and energy storage systems, and a majority of loads with the transmission and distribution networks, by exploiting the synchronisation principle of synchronous machines. This model opens the prospect of achieving completely autonomous operation of power systems.