In Japan about 16 million units of distribution transformers are in service.
These transformers are expending a huge amount of energy in the form of no load
loss and load loss. Among these losses, no load loss is major. No load loss can
be saved dramatically by changing these transformers to amorphous transformers
(i.e., amorphous metal-based transformers). This paper
estimates the scope of the possible energy saving and reduction of CO2
emissions by the adoption of amorphous transformers in Japan and in China.
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Hans De Keulenaer on 15 Jan 10"This paper describes the performance of the network of a typical future residential concept area, as has been studied in the Intelligent E-Transportation Management project. Several scenarios have been elaborated by load flow simulations. The study investigated what level of introduction of electric vehicles, heat pumps, photovoltaic systems and micro- combined heat and power plants is feasible in this network. Possible overload situations are examined and the opportunities of demand side management for the power grid are investigated. In general load-flow simulations show that transformer overloads will occur when electric heat pumps and electric vehicles are introduced together in this specific grid. In that case extension of the grid or of the transformer capacity is necessary. Alternatively, demand side management can be applied successfully to mitigate the overload."
