Abstract Smart grid (SG) is emerging as a new facet of power industry. It incorporates numerous advanced technologies to deal issues prevailing with conventional electric networks. Though capable to resolve many of these issues, SG is still facing challenges in deployment. These challenges are associated with adaption of emerging technologies, socio-economic issues, lack of policies and awareness. Since Government of India (GoI) has initiated nationwide deployment of SG projects, the objective of this paper is to identify challenges and issues in SG implementation. In such situation, it is primarily essential to identify and discuss the barriers to overcome deployment concerns, including consumer's acceptance. In this paper, such major challenges and issues for SG implementation have been encapsulated. Considering the vision and roadmap of the Indian SG, an indicative assessment framework has been developed and details are discussed here. A case study of solar PV awareness survey has also been presented to understand consumers’ interest and concerns toward components of SG.

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智能电网实施的挑战与问题：以印度为例

摘要 智能电网（SG）正在成为电力行业的一个新方面。它结合了许多先进技术来解决传统电网普遍存在的问题。尽管 SG 能够解决其中许多问题，但在部署方面仍面临挑战。这些挑战与新兴技术的适应、社会经济问题、缺乏政策和意识有关。由于印度政府 (GoI) 已开始在全国范围内部署 SG 项目，本文的目的是确定 SG 实施中的挑战和问题。在这种情况下，首先必须确定和讨论克服部署问题的障碍，包括消费者的接受度。在本文中，SG 实施的这些主要挑战和问题已被概括。考虑到印度 SG 的愿景和路线图，已经制定了一个指示性评估框架，并在此处讨论了详细信息。还介绍了太阳能光伏意识调查的案例研究，以了解消费者对 SG 组件的兴趣和担忧。