Reflections on Driving Force, Connotation and Technical Area of Smart Grid

摘要

With the rapid development of world economy, energy security and environmental issues become increasingly prominent. And smart grid turns into the common choice for the global power industry to respond to future challenges of power grid. Combining with the development experience and research results of smart grid at home and abroad, the paper discusses the driving force, connotation and related technical area of smart grid from the three levels of government, enterprise and users, from a new perspective to try to answer the questions: "Why should we develop smart grid", "What is smart grid", and "how to develop smart grid".