A Smart Grid Testbed: Design and Validation

The concept of Smart Grid is a form of electricity network that will de-liver electricity from distributed suppliers to consumers, with the help of two-way digital communications that will control the energy storage and distribution process. This will save energy, reduce costs, and increase reliability in the presence of failures. The transformation of existing tra-ditional centralized electricity grid into a state-of-the-art Smart Grid will need innovation in a number of dimensions such as: seamless integration renewable energy sources, management of intermittent power supplies, realtime demand response, dynamic energy pricing strategy, self-healing for disruption resilience, information communication infrastructure etc. The grid configuration will need to change from the centralized power broadcasting network into a more distributed, dynamic and robust net-work with two-way energy transmission. Another necessary component for Smart Grid is distributed Information Network, that will measure the status of the entire or part of power grid, and will control the en