Adoption of Smart Grid Technologies: Results of a Survey of U.S. Electric Utilities
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In order to respond to these challenges, many U.S. utilities have been investing in smart grid technologies for communications, monitoring, computation and control purposes. Among its capabilities, the smart grid enables better outage management, grid selfhealing, demand response, dynamic pricing, preventive maintenance of grid assets, integration of distributed generation resources, and two-way communications between utilities and customers (Farhangi, 2010).
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