Smartness

Basede on Case Studies from micro-grids in India, the following statements are made:

“Following this sociotechnical logic, …provides evidence that smart grids are not just about technical smartness, i.e., layers of ICTs, but also about social smartness, financial smartness and governmental smartness, and their entanglements.”

“governmental smartness relates to the relationships with the government and its electricity infrastructure”

A “smart idea could only be considered socially smart if it achieves its desired aim while also maintaining (or progressing) the democratic structure of the smart grid.”

“Joint liability groups (JLGs) constitute a ‘smart financial mechanism’ with the potential to help maintain continuous long-term energy access while also protecting the micro-grid company’s revenues.” “Joining mechanisms such as smart meters and JLGs to secure financial flows and maintain electricity flows ties technical, social and financial smartness together.”

[Source: Kumar, Ankit. ‘Beyond Technical Smartness: Rethinking the Development and Implementation of Sociotechnical Smart Grids in India’. Energy Research & Social Science 49 (March 2019): 158–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.026. ]

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