Smart Grid Operation: A Survey

Creation of Smart Grid meets the energy requirements of the 21stcentury in a high-tech manner with real time approach by providing asignificant improvement in power reliability and services, and integrating thelatest digital communications in the current power grid. This grid improves theability of consumers and utilities to monitor, control, and predict the use ofenergy. Up to the present time, Smart Grid has involved numerous researchersfrom different viewpoints. This paper provides an extensive literature review ofSmart Grid technologies and its characteristics. There are a lot of problems andchallenges in the field of Smart Grid. Therefore, this paper can help to find anew research topic in this field