Smart Grid has come up with all the solutions. Basically, the smart grid is an electric grid that uses information and communication technology together and acts on information about the behavior of suppliers and consumers in an automated manner. A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to save energy, reduce cost, and increase reliability. The fundamental concept of any smart grid is to provide system monitoring, fault analysis, operation control, and communication capabilities to the national delivery system. This, in turn, can maximize the output of equipment, help utilities lower costs, improve reliability, decrease interruptions, and reduce energy consumption.

The smart grid delivers electricity from producers to consumers using two-way digital technology. It also allows control of appliances in the consumer’s utility and of machines in factories to save energy. The smart grid also supports distribution generation that will be near to load, which decreases losses, and in the future, due to more distribution generation, there will be less demand for centralized generation, so demand fulfillment will be easy.

Through the use of smart grid technology, energy can be used in a more efficient way and would not be wasted. This technology also helps to save the earth from global warming. It refers to the modernized version of the earlier traditional methods of energy supply. As new technologies are invented and existing ones to the desired specifications met in the near future, Smart Grids will be a reality and change the whole pattern of energy all over the world.

Submitted By

Mr. Ankit Tandon

Assistant Professor

EE Department