Greening elements in the distribution networks
Abstract: Due to climate
change and the increase in environmental awareness in the world, the concept of
Green Supply Chain Management appeared. The concept is aimed at the reduction
of several elements: energy, materials, the pollution and the waste in
production and logistics processes. Power networks are a part of a supply chain
of production and distribution of electrical energy, and similar principles of
greening could be applied. Currently, the losses within the distribution
networks in the whole world are between 3.7 to 26.7 % and they primarily occur
due to the losses in the conductors and the losses within distribution
transformers. After an overview of the losses in the power networks and related
CO2 emission, some solution of how to reduce the above mentioned losses are
given. Such improvements, apart from the significant economic repercussions, in
the same time represent non-negligible greening element in the area of
electrical energy distribution.
Author: Tihomir Opetuk, Ivan
Zolo, Goran Dukic
Journal Code: jptindustrigg100035
