Smart grids are designed to:

1) Reduce the electricity demand load on the utility grid during daily peak demand periods.

2) Support renewable energy generation via distributed energy systems (DES) wind turbine farms, solar PV, concentrated solar power (CSP), and fuel cells stations.

3) Create independence of the utility grids in remote areas.

Accordingly, I'd say that market penetration by large-scale renewable energy systems relies on the presence of smart grids as well as distributed energy storage (DES) to offset the incompetency of renewable sources such as wind turbines, solar PV, CSP, etc.

Please feel free to download my lecture notes from the "Green Energy Systems" course that I developed and taught at Yale University. You can find these lecture notes and publications under my profile in ResearchGate.net.

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I guess advanced communication protocols (especially the consensus), energy Internet, and energy storage technologies are among the most important future developments in power grids of different sizes and scales. Such enhancements are expected to contribute in extending the definition of smart grid from structural, technological, and capabilities points of view. At least they will improve the automation level of the power systems to eventually reach the formal smart level of automation.

In my point of view, I think that there is There is a great tendency to apply the big data, and topics such as ''Microgrids and Distributed Resources, cybersecurity and privacy, Dynamic Pricing and Data Management'' will pick the highest interest by the researchers.

Smart grids are designed to:

1) Reduce the electricity demand load on the utility grid during daily peak demand periods.

2) Support renewable energy generation via distributed energy systems (DES) wind turbine farms, solar PV, concentrated solar power (CSP), and fuel cells stations.

3) Create independence of the utility grids in remote areas.

Accordingly, I'd say that market penetration by large-scale renewable energy systems relies on the presence of smart grids as well as distributed energy storage (DES) to offset the incompetency of renewable sources such as wind turbines, solar PV, CSP, etc.

Please feel free to download my lecture notes from the "Green Energy Systems" course that I developed and taught at Yale University. You can find these lecture notes and publications under my profile in ResearchGate.net.

Hope this helps answer your question and good luck.

@Mohamed EL-Shimy, @Kouider Khaled, @Yehiat F. Khalil

Thank you for participating in my discussion topic. You all mentioned very good points. Please let me know if you think of any disadvantage or side effect of smart grid.

@Yehiat F. Khalil

Thank you very much for your generosity, I will gladly use them as a reference.

Disadvantages:

1) Smart grids are susceptible to cyber attacks. Back-doors such as smart meters could be a source of vulnerability.

2) Power from smart grids, if not well-coordinated with the utility grid could cause power instability on the grid.

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i'm agree with Yehia F. Khalil and Mohamed EL-Shimy ..

as a disadvantages, i think the vulnerability , the informatin weak security and the pricing was the bigest disadvantages and they lead to a real challenge in the future.

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There are several disadvantages, or rather obstacles currently:

1. Capital Costs and how those costs are recouped from a utility customer rate base. While in theory all business cases for smart grid are positive, the immediate sticker shock to the end customers may be a major obstacle. A business case that makes sense to the consumer and utility needs to drive the adoption of these technologies.

2. Several technologies remain proprietary creating an issue of interoperability. This is a major concern and add-on for utility costs where an organization needs multiple head-end systems to manage every piece of technology.

3. Latency. This is tied to interoperability. Various technology nodes require minimum amounts of latency to ensure performance, safety and quality of service. Because different technologies may not speak in a native language to once another, additional latency is introduced throughout the communication chain as protocol adapters are required.

4. Cybersecurity. This is a very real issue at the application, network and physical layers. This is further complicated by interoperability and proprietary nature of technologies, wireless interference, etc.

5. Privacy. AMI and interval meters provide granular energy/demand data about an installation. Usage profiles allow utilities to interpolate behaviours, work schedules, how many people live in a residence, types of equipment at a home (hot tub), heating/cooling systems (oil), etc. While this information has traditionally remained in the utility, there has been a trend in the technology industry to sell data to third-parties to enhance an analytic offering. Any data that is shared with third-parties typically has explicit permission from the consumer, however the days of data sharing clauses embedded in user agreements could be on the horizon.

Just to expand on Yehia's advantages.

1. Shifting peak demand periods. Utilities incorporating demand shifting technologies can provide value to all their rate base and preserve much of their revenues. Depending on the regulatory environment, shifting demand will allow utilities to manage their excess capacity and utilize this in off-peak periods. The benefit is foregoing the construction of new generation capacity, in addition to fully utilizing intermittent renewable energy sources.

2. Granular energy data. Having granular energy, demand. voltage, power factor data enables an enormous amount of intelligence to be produced about consumers behaviours and can deliver information required to justify energy efficiency and other technology investments. This has enabled an entire technology segment focused on energy analytics and value-added services to consumers.

Smart grid technology is not single concept its contained all latest technology for example advance metering infrastructure, distributed generation, demand side management etc

@ Ravi KANT Yadav

@ Brian Garrison

Thank you for your explanation and participation.

Samuel

1) Deployment and integration of

a) Distributed generation, including renewable resources.

b) Smart appliances and consumer devices.

c) Advanced electricity storage and peak-shaving technologies, including plug-in

electric and hybrid electric vehicles.

2) Provision of timely information and control options to consumers.

3) Dynamic optimization of grid operations and resources.

4) Development of demand response, demand-side resources, and energy-efficiency resources.

These are the important characteristics of smart grid.

Smart grid concept consists of the following-

1. Incorporation of renewable energy resources

2. Improving energy efficiency

3. Reducing power loss

4. Optimization of several systems

5. Ensuring environmental sustainability and

6. Finally enhance the power quality issues.

most of us tend to think that power demand must be destined to rise steadily in the coming decades , so there are three three landmarks of the downstream Smart Grid.

1. Customer control systems repay to prices

2. Smaller local generators (DG) or wind /PVGen .

3. Greater levels of storage

Advantages of smart grid technologies:

1 "rapid" load balancing in networks with extreme (minimum, maximum) energy consumption values

Disadvantages:

1 poorly developed infrastructure for the effective use of this technology

2 staff’s lack of readiness to use this technology effectively (not everyone has Yale University :) - a joke)

3 the absence of cheap superconducting solutions at the moment and, consequently, large energy losses in the transmission of energy over large distances

The colleagues gave definitions for the smart grid, its advantage and disadvantage. I would say that smart grid in a broad sense is a grid with more smart control and embedded artificial intelligence in its generation , its transmission and its distribution and consumption.Smart grid organizes the generation and consumption processes to the save electricity.

Best wishes