Characteristic | Traditional power grid | Smart grid |
Whether to encourage users to participate in | The user does not know and does not participate in | Motivate users’ informed participation |
Whether to accommodate power generation and energy storage | Mainly concentrated power generation, distributed power supply is restricted | Large amount of renewable distributed power supply is convenient—“plug and play” |
Whether to meet the power quality requirements | Concerned about outages, not concerned with power quality | Power quality first, there are a variety of power quality options and price options |
Whether to optimize assets and operate efficiently | Operational data and asset management are rarely integrated | Expand the collection of power grid parameters, focus on accident prevention, reduce the impact on users, optimize the allocation of resources, improve the operation efficiency |