Carnegie Mellon University
© Dr. Rahul Tongia
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Draft – Subject to Change
Smart IT:
Techno-Economic Model
–Target specific users
–All agricultural (almost one-third of the load)
–All Industrial and larger commercial users
–Only the larger-size domestic users
–Estimated 2/3 of homes only use <50 kWh per month
–Include network nodes that need monitoring and/or control
–Substations
–Transformers
–Capacitor banks (as applicable)
–Relays (as applicable)
– etc.
–Excludes capital for utility equipment like transformers
–New system designs and services are not factored in
–Pre-paid metering
–Future interaction with smart appliances, smart home networks, etc.
–Distributed generation