Abstract: “Smart grids are a key suite of technologies to deal with pressing current and future needs in the electricity sector and to enable the effective adoption of low-carbon energy technologies such as variable renewable energies and electric vehicles. The Smart Grid is a vision of a better electricity delivery infrastructure. Smart Grid implementations dramatically increase the quantity, quality, and use of data available from advanced sensing, computing, and communications hardware and software. As a result, they help utilities address two of today's most important business drivers: environmental concerns and power delivery constraints and disturbances.”

Keywords: smart grid