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-Grids were designed around a simple logic: large generators at one end, passive consumers at the other, with transmission and distribution as the delivery pipe. Smart grid transitions break this logic at every point. Generation is now distributed across millions of small sites. Demand is increasingly flexible and, with storage and EVs, can feed back into the grid. The distribution network, which was never designed for two-way flows, becomes a coordination problem rather than a delivery problem. How the physical grid is owned, operated, and regulated shapes which transitions are possible and who can participate in them.+Grids were designed around a simple logic: large generators at one end, passive consumers at the other, with transmission and distribution as the delivery pipe. Smart grid transitions break this logic at every point. Generation is now distributed across millions of small sites. Demand is increasingly flexible and, with storage and EVs, can feed back into the grid. The distribution network, which was never designed for two-way flows, becomes a coordination challenge.
  
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-Smart grid development is most pronounced at the distribution level, where new actors, devices, and services create coordination challenges the original radial architecture was not designed for.+Grid ownership, operation and regulation shape which transitions are possible and who can participate in them.
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