The Smart Grid concept combines a number of technologies, end-user solutions and addresses a number of policy and regulatory drivers. It does not have a single clear definition.
The European Technology Platform [3] defines the Smart Grid as:
“A SmartGrid is an electricity network that can intelligently integrate the actions of all users connected to it – generators, consumers and those that do both – in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supplies.”
According to the US Department of Energy [7]:
“A smart grid uses digital technology to improve reliability, security, and efficiency (both economic and energy) of the electric system from large generation, through the delivery systems to electricity consumers and a growing number of distributed-generation and storage resources.”
In Smarter Grids: The Opportunity [4], the Smart Grid is defined as:
“A smart grid uses sensing, embedded processing and digital communications to enable the electricity grid to be observable (able to be measured and visualised), controllable (able to manipulated and optimised), automated (able to adapt and self-heal), fully integrated (fully interoperable with existing systems and with the capacity to incorporate a diverse set of energy sources).”
The literature [7–10] suggests the following attributes of the Smart Grid:
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