Smart grid provides quality power that meet 21st century demand which cooperative generation and storage options that fulfills customer’s needs considering the changes and the challenges.
The key goal of smart grid is to promote active customer participation and decision making as well as to create the operation environment in which both utilities and electricity users influence each other.
In smart grids, users can influence utilities by adding distributed generation sources such as photovoltaic (PV) modules or energy storage at the point of use, and reacting pricing signals.
Utilities can improve reliability through the demand response programs, adding distributed generation or energy storage at substations, and providing automated control to the grid.