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