Exploring the current situation and future challenges, the book provides a global perspective on how the smart grid integrates twenty-first-century technology with the twentieth-century power grid.

This book gives readers a clearer understanding of the drivers and infrastructure of one of the most talked-about topics in the electric utility market—smart grid. The book brings together the knowledge and views of a vast array of experts and leaders in their respective fields.

Key Features
• Describes the impetus for change in the electric utility industry
• Discusses the business drivers, benefits, and market outlook of the smart grid initiative
• Examines the technical framework of enabling technologies and smart solutions
• Identifies the role of technology developments and coordinated standards in smart grid, including various initiatives and organizations helping to drive the smart grid effort
• Presents both current technologies and forward-looking ideas on new technologies
• Discusses barriers and critical factors for a successful smart grid from a utility, regulatory, and consumer perspective
• Summarizes recent smart grid initiatives around the world
• Discusses the outlook of the drivers and technologies for the next-generation smart grid


Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editor
Contributors
Chapter 1 Overview of the Electric Utility Industry
Chapter 2 What Is Smart Grid, Why Now?
Chapter 3 Smart Grid Technologies
Chapter 4 Smart Grid Barriers and Critical Success Factors
Chapter 5 Global Smart Grid Initiatives
Chapter 6 Smart Grid: Where Do We Go from Here?

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