Smart Grid Vision Meets Distribution Utility Reality

摘要

The term "smart grid" is hyperbole that seems to imply a future when the grid runs itself absent human intervention. While this is clearly not the case, there is a hard reality emerging: The smart grid concept in many ways suggests that utility companies, executives, regulators and elected officials at all levels of government will indeed face a brutal "pass/fail" future with regard to electric service, a driving force of the U.S. world-leading economy.