
Satisfied customers and financially sound utilities etc. Smart grids will also improve efficiency through reduction in technical and non-technical line losses. A smart grid is an electricity network enabling a two-way flow of electricity and data with digital communications technology enabling to detect, react and pro.Increased options such as ToU tariff, DR programs, net metering.Renewable integration and accessibility to electricity.Increased grid visibility and self-healing grids.Peak load management, improved QoS and reliability.Such include utility, customers and the regulators while some of the benefits include: Several groups of the society are provided with multiple benefits through the Smart Grid implementations. the consumers who both produce and consume electricity, to safely connect to the grid. This indicator is improved by smart grids through real-time monitoring and communication between smart grid components. Reliability refers to how adequate, safe, and stable the flow of electricity is. Smart Grid will also facilitate distributed generation, especially the roof top solar generation, by allowing movement and measurement of energy in both directions using control systems and net metering that will help “prosumers” i.e. Smart grid technology improves our energy security by improving the reliability and resilience of our electrical grid. Opportunities to reduce and conserve electricity etc.

Incentivize consumers to alter usage during different times of day based on pricing signals.Automated outage management and faster restoration.Smart grid has several positive features that give direct benefit to consumers: Transform the Indian power sector in to a secure, adaptive, sustainable and digitally enabled ecosystem that provides reliable and quality energy for all with active participation of stakeholders. Smart grid solutions can contribute to reduction of T&D losses, Peak load management, improved quality of Service, increased reliability, better asset management, renewable integration, better accessibility to electricity etc. Smart grid solutions helps to monitor, measure and control power flows in real time that can contribute to identification of losses and thereby appropriate technical and managerial actions can be taken to arrest the losses.

Smart Grids can be achieved by implementing efficient transmission & distribution systems, system operations, consumer integration and renewable integration. Smart Grid is an Electrical Grid with Automation, Communication and IT systems that can monitor power flows from points of generation to points of consumption (even down to appliances level) and control the power flow or curtail the load to match generation in real time or near real time. A short film was developed on "Smart Grid and its Transformative Impact on Utility Operations and Customer Energy Empowerment".
