We use electricity everywhere and everyday. The life of a modern person can’t be imagined without power nowadays. Everything, like Cell Phones, Computers, any Electrical Devices require it.
One of the examples, that illustrates the people’s dependancy on the power is Hurricane Sandy, that occured in 2012 and caused a lot of damages and electricity break-downs particularly in New York. In that city the level of water reached so high that metro were flooded and what most significant is that Stock Market was shut down for a day. Reading newspapers and realizing how much people were affraid of the situation, not only on a local level, when residents were booking flights to get away till the disaster is settled, but also on the international and national level, where the importancy of the Stock Market is high and any issues can cause financial transactions problems. The illustartion exposes how much people are dependant on the convinience of having electricity 24/7 and how much efforts they trying to put to avoid it.
“Demad response is a the Smart Grid R&D Program, designed by power industries to develop modernization technologies for demand response and help to design, test, and demonstrate integrated infrastructures with the ability to dynamically optimize grid operations and resources and incorporate demand response and consumer participation. “http://energy.gov/oe/technology-development/smart-grid/demand-response
This program is designed to make the supply of the electricity affordable, convenient as well as “green” . For example, installed sensors can perceive peak load problems and utilize automatic switching to reduce power in strategic places, removing the chance of overload and the resulting power failure.