Building a Better Connected Smart Grid

摘要

In 2002, the U.S.-based Electric Power Research Institute proposed a research project titled IntelliGrid to focus on the integration of electricity and communications systems. Eighteen months later, the project was officially named IntelliGrid Architecture and the world's first smart grid architecture was established. Over the last decade, smart grid pioneers have highlighted the importance of innovative smart grid architecture and the electric power industry has experienced dramatic changes in the transmission, distribution, marketing, and consumption of electricity. Only twelve years after the concept was first introduced to the world, the smart grid is now shaping the technical and management transformation of the global electric power industry with endorsement from utility companies of almost every country in the world.