What is a Smart Grid?
The electric grid is almost like a living organism. Electricity flows through the grid as controllers work to keep things working properly — bringing power plants online, estimating load, balancing the peaks and valleys of demand, and so on.
You can think of today’s existing grid as a “broadcast” system intended to get electricity from central power plants to the houses and businesses where it is needed. The idea behind smart grid is to do a much better job routing power so that it is available where it is needed when it is needed with much more efficient transmission (think superconducting wires, better substation routing, better load estimation, and so on).
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