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I did not understand this article. Especially the term “ digitize “ the distribution grid. Digital electronics is based on DC circuits. Our grid is based on AC circuits. These circuits are fundamentally different in power generation, storage and distribution

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If you are new to the smart grid/grid modernization topic, one place to start is the DOE's primer on smart grid: https://www.energy.gov/smart-grid.

A couple of definitions to clarify: digitization is the process of turning non-digital information into digital information. For example, grocery stores used to keep track of their inventory and prices using paper and pencil, and if they wanted to share across stores they had to mail the information or carry it in person. Digitizing those pieces of information into data meant putting them in spreadsheets and tranforming them so they could be communicated in 0-1 bits.

Digitalization is the process of enabling systems to understand, use, and create digital data. So the grocery stores digitalized their inventory and pricing systems to enable them to digitize the inventory and price data.

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Thank you for the link to DOE. I understand your clarification of grocery store data. But I do not understand the analogy to electrical energy as “inventory.” I will review the DOE information and again thank you.

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Interesting that State Grid, the world's largest electricity supplier, also runs one of the world's Top Ten AI labs.

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Thanks for the update....Vernon Smith

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