Reliability of the system increases: Through improved monitoring and management technologies, the Smart Grid will self-heal by redirecting energy during power outages to provide more reliable service.

• Higher customer satisfaction
• Operates resiliently against attack and natural disaster.
• Increased employee safety
• Meet increasing demand
• Decreases brownouts, blackouts, and surges

Improve Efficiency: Greater information and control over the grid will allow operators to draw energy supply from more efficient, renewable resources and optimize the grid assets.

• Reduces lines losses on both T & D
• Reduces transmission congestion
• Reduces peak load and energy consumption
• Reduces use of inefficient generation
• Extend life of system’s assets
• Increase asset utilization

Improves Economic: Improved reliability will give monetary benefit to customers, society, utilities and government.

• Increases revenues as theft of service is reduced
• A flatter load profile will reduce operating and maintenance (O&M) costs
• Increases opportunity to reduce transportation costs by using EVs
• Reduces capital cost
• Increases opportunity to sell electricity back to the grid
• Increases opportunity to leverage RERs
• Increases opportunity to reduce customers' energy consumption

Improves Environmental: The Smart Grid is necessary for the efficient integration of renewable energy, leading to fewer greenhouse gas emissions and reduced use of peak energy generators.

• Reduces use of inefficient generation
• Improved public health
• Reduces green house gas emission
• Support renewable energy resources

Self-Healing: A smart grid automatically detects and responds to routine problems and quickly recovers if they occur, minimizing downtime and financial loss.

Motivates and Includes the Consumer: A smart grid gives all consumers - industrial, commercial, and residential - visibility into real-time pricing, and affords them the opportunity to choose the volume of consumption and price that best suits their needs.

Resists Attack: smart grid has security built-in from the ground up.

Accommodates All Generation and Storage Options: A smart grid enables "plug-and-play" interconnection to multiple and distributed sources of power and storage (e.g., wind, solar, battery storage, etc.)

Optimizes Assets and Operates Efficiently: A smart grid enables us to build less new infrastructure, transmit more power through existing systems, and thereby spend less to operate and maintain the grid.