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What’s up with the “Smart Grid” ColoradoRural Electric Operations and Engineering Conference Martin E. Gordon, P.E. martin.gordon@ April 7, 2009 What is the Smart Grid?  DOE: The Smart Grid Will Self-Heal Motivate and Empower Consumers Resist Attack Ensure Power Quality Accommodate a Variety of Generation Storage Options Enable Markets Optimize Assets What is the Smart Grid?  EPRI: The Intelligent Grid “An intelligent electric power delivery infrastructure (Intelligent Grid) that integrates advances in communications, computing, and electronics to meet society’s electric service needs in the future.”-EPRI, Sept 2006  Wikipedia : The Smart Grid “is a transformed electricity transmission and distribution network or ‘grid’ that uses robust two-way communications, advanced sensors, and distributed computers to improve the efficiency, reliability and safety of power delivery and use.” Xcel Energy: The Smart Grid  “While details vary greatly, the general definition of a smart grid is an intelligent, autobalancing, self-monitoring power grid that accepts any source of fuel (coal, sun, wind) and transforms it into a consumer’s end use (heat, light, warm water) with minimal human intervention. It is a system that will allow society to optimize the use of renewable energy sources and minimize our collective environmental footprint. It is a grid that has the ability to sense when a part of its system is overloaded and reroute power to reduce that overload and prevent a potential outage situation; a grid that enables real-time communication between the consumer and utility allowing us to optimize a consumer’s energy usage based on environmental and/or price preferences.” FERC: The Smart Grid  “The Smart Grid concept envisions a power system architecture that permits two-way communication between the grid and essentially all devices that connect to it, ultimately all the way down to large consumer appliances.” The Smart Grid is equal parts: T