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If we wish to integrate green energy into daily life we should sincerely discuss the management tasks of smart grids. Smart grids belong to hot topics in engineering journals but their management and other economic angles have received less attention. Dangers of cybercrime have increasing publicity meanwhile businesses consider the stable, reliable electric power supply to be self-evident. The modern electric power supply chains—more concretely the smart grids—show the near future. The technical and engineering parts of them seem to exist and there are more theories for their economic and financial operation, however, the integration of all these into one system may hide more unsolved problems. There is a lack of discussion of the consequences and management of the increased roles of end-users and the behaviour of them. Our critical review deals with the managing questions of smart grids based on the most cited relevant research papers. We also discuss the challenges of the management side of modern electric power supply chains, facing E-mobility and E-vehicles (G2V and V2G). In our view smart grids are not purely a technology, but a complex set of intertwined technologies, which requires drastic changes in both user behaviour and society. We see that papers dominantly use the scheme of entirely rational end-user behaviour which may cause unexpected difficulties in practice.
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Piricz, N. (2020). Management Challenges of Smart Grids. In: Kolinski, A., Dujak, D., Golinska-Dawson, P. (eds) Integration of Information Flow for Greening Supply Chain Management. EcoProduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24355-5_20
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