Multi-Disciplinary Paradigm for Enhancing Energy Security in Super-grids

The occurrence of energy deficits and surplus incidences constitute challenges in the future super grid. These challenges should be addressed to enhance energy security—the development of suitable solutions benefits from multi-domain perspectives. The solution proposed in this regard utilizes insights from disease transmission dynamics. In this regard, the paper proposes the energy vector paradigm (EVP). The proposed EVP considers highly mobile energy insertion and extraction entities as the vectors, while the super grid is the host. The EVP opines that using highly mobile entities enhances the super grid’s ability to improve energy security. An architecture incorporating the EVP is presented and discussed. Performance evaluations show that EVP increases accessible energy and reduces energy surplus by an average of 61% and 22%, respectively.