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→Breaking it down
* Information + Communication + Power Grid
* Reliable, Secure, Efficient, Modern, Manageable → Full Potential
* The integration of power, communications, and information technologies for an improved electric power infrastructure serving loads while providing for an ongoing evolution of end-use applications. <ref name="3o">[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6018239/ 2030-2011 - IEEE Guide for Smart Grid Interoperability of Energy Technology and Information Technology Operation with the Electric Power System (EPS), End-Use Applications, and Loads ]</ref>
* A marketing term, rather than a technical definition. For this reason there is no well defined and commonly accepted scope of what "smart" is and what it is not.<ref> http://www.iec.ch/smartgrid/background/explained.htm </ref>