Chapter 15

Concept of Smart Grid and Its Applications

To dream the impossible dream,To reach the unreachable star.

Joe Darion, in The Impossible Dream

An active field of science is like an immense anthills; the individual almost vanishes into the mass of minds tumbling over each other, carrying information from place to place, passing it around at the speed of light.

Lewis Thomas, in Natural Science

15.1 Basic Definitions

Grid: The transmission system. It is the interconnected group of power lines and associated equipment for moving electric energy of high voltage between points of supply and points at which it is delivered to other electric systems or transformed to a lower voltage for delivery to customers.

Smart grid: The modernization of ...

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