Smart Grids: Strategic Planning And Development

Smart Grids help utilities respond to a variety of emerging customer and community needs. But utilities may miss many of the benefits if they regard Smart Grids as primarily evolutionary steps in consumption measurement and grid monitoring. The Smart Grid is, in fact, an information revolution with implications for virtually every utility department and function as well as every customer. Utilities that permit just one or two departments to control Smart Grid design almost invariably discover that projects fail to provide optimal return on investment.