This is quite easy to follow. From the look of things, we don't have this technology in our country yet because all those scary incidents you mentioned in the first paragraph still do happen to us down here. As a result you could see hospitals running generators for the whole hospital or for just the intensive care unit even when there is no outage from the utility.
From what you have explained, smart grid technology can be integrated into our traditional central distribution system to make it more robust. Could you delve a little more into the challenges of achieving this integration into our system which has made our system remain the way it has been for many decades while our power generation capacity dwindles every year?
Thank you for sharing.
The challenges we have in this country is that the electric power system network is ageing, likewise the workforce. There is need to rehabilitate almost all our distribution system and some of the tranmission network before delving into automation. Once this is done, making the grid smart won't be difficult because some of the technology is available but what is lacking now is standardisation of the communication protocols that would be involved especially in a deregulated market.
This sounds easy but then it has been a while since these problems have been on ground. I hope we get to see a smart grid in our lifetime. Thanks for the detailed explanation.