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Smart grids have no doubt superior to traditional grids, especially in terms of resource allocation and incident response capabilities, and many countries have announced their own smart grid development plans.

Smart grid is the development focus of the country's power network construction in the future. Japan plans to popularize the smart grid in 2030, and the government and the people are fully committed to building a smart grid overseas. In the battery field, the global market share of Japanese companies is aiming to reach 50% and get a market of about 10 trillion yen. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has established the “International Standardization Research Association for the Next Generation of Energy Systems”, and Japan and the United States have established a joint smart grid project in Okinawa and Hawaii.

The smart grid in the United States, also known as the unified smart grid, refers to the integration of a distributed smart grid into a nationwide network system. This system mainly includes: intelligentizing the US power grid through unified smart grid, solving the needs of distributed energy systems, connecting customer power with long-short, high- and low-voltage intelligent networks; building new environment under the premise of protecting the environment and ecosystem The transmission grid realizes the optimized transmission and distribution of renewable energy and improves the reliability and cleanliness of the grid; this system can balance the demand for electricity across states, realize nationwide power optimization scheduling, monitoring and control, thus achieving the overall US The power demand management balances the supply of renewable energy across the United States. The other core of the system is to solve the storage of solar energy, hydrogen energy, hydropower and vehicle energy. It can help users sell excess power, including solving the battery system to sell back rich energy to the grid. In fact, this system is based on the US renewable energy, to achieve optimal management of the US power generation, transmission, distribution and power systems.

Recently, Southern California Edison (SCE) announced that it plans to deploy a demonstration project on June 30, 2013, including: distribution infrastructure, substation, residential users, network security systems, battery energy storage systems, and the University of California. Owen is building an electric vehicle charging station, etc. GE is also a participant in the project.

The project demonstrates the importance of utilities, system integrators, regulators, and customers for energy initiatives, including energy consumption load shifts, renewable energy grids, and cost-effective energy storage solutions.

Previously, the US government focused on the development of smart grids, focused on the development of core technologies, and began to develop development plans. In order to attract all parties to jointly promote the construction of smart grids, the US government has actively formulated the “2010-2014 Smart Grid R&D Annual Project Plan”, aiming to comprehensively set up smart grid R&D projects to further promote the development and application of technologies in this field.