As part of the Recovery Act, the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) stipulated that over 200,000 smart transformers, 850 sensors and 700 automated substations be added to the existing grid.

The term "smart grid" describes an electrical grid that's integrated with a computerized, two-way communication network. Older electrical grids send electrical power one direction, from a power ...

Congress looks at what “smart grid” means and comes up with mixed definitions. The one thing everyone agrees on: The smart grid is going to be expensive.

The smart grid What is needed is a wider number of distribution sources deployed throughout a region for a true distributed energy architecture, such as the deployment of renewable energy sources—that ...

A primer for the 68 percent of consumers who have no idea what a smart grid is.

You're a proponent of creating a "Self-Healing Smart Grid." What is that? A smart grid is one that has real-time monitoring and reaction, which allows the system to constantly modify and tune ...

Where can you get the most frank answers to the question, "What do utility executives think about the smart grid?" Probably from the 2009–2010 " Platts/Capgemini Utilities Executive Study ...

Sidebar to main article on non-smart-meter opportunities in the Smart Grid describes the larger Smart Grid picture.

The biggest network upgrade in the United States today is Smart Grid, a multibillion dollar modernization of the electricity grid that involves supporting real-time, two-way digital communications ...

Aboitiz Power Corp. is slowly rolling out smart grid devices across its distribution systems as it aims to have self-healing networks in pursuit of automating the distribution utilities it owns.

What makes a grid ‘smart’? Researchers and engineers in American cities have begun the work of transforming their traditional utility grids into self-monitoring, demand-responsive digital networks.