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Evolution of Power Systems into Smarter Networks

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Electricity has become all pervasive in the world today. This has been accomplished by continued developments in power systems over the past 130 years. Although power systems engineers have always kept pace by embracing new enabling technologies as they developed, recently there has been a trend to classify the new developments under the umbrella of “smart grid”. Smart grid embraces the entire power system and is another step in the continuing effort to make the grid smarter. A brief introduction of the past and present status of the power systems is given. Integration of advanced communications, information technologies, control, and other enabling technologies is the way forward in the evolution of future power systems into smarter grids.

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Malik, O.P. Evolution of Power Systems into Smarter Networks. J Control Autom Electr Syst 24, 139–147 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40313-013-0005-6

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