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Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, 2011, 2, 305-311 305 doi:10.4236/sgre.2011.24035 Published Online November 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/sgre) Smart Grid: An Overview Tamilmaran Vijayapriya1*, Dwarkadas Pralhadas Kothari2 1Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India; 2Vindhya Institute of Technology Science, Indore, India. * Email: pvijayapriya@vit.ac.in, dpk0710@ Received December 30th, 2010; revised June 7th, 2011; accepted June 13th, 2011. ABSTRACT This paper briefly discusses evolution of Smart Grid development. Smart Grid is important as it will take us towards energy independence and environmentally sustainable economic growth. Growth of Smart Power Grid in India will slowly but surely take us towards fulfilling the dreams of former President Dr . A.P .J . Abdul Kalam, “Energy for all and Energy forever”. Keywords : Smart Grid, FACTS, ICT, Smart Homes 1. Introduction A smart grid is an umbrella term that covers moder- nization of both the transmission and distribution grids. In the present era, due to increased power demand to The concept of a smart grid is that of a “digital upgrade” meet up the industrial requirements, the shortfalls in of distribution and long distance transmission grids to power generation have been attempted to mitigate be- both optimize current operations by reducing the losses, tween supply and demand through devel