Smart Grids, Messy Society? An evaluation of the implementation of smart grids in Australia

新的信息技术使公用事业基础设施能够作为智能电网运行，并有望带来多种经济和环境效益。自100年前首次安装以来，公用事业基础设施基本上没有改变，智能电网有潜力促进重大创新。该项目旨在调查智能电网的社会驱动因素和影响，并评估这些电网的实施如何因地而异。它将评估这对创新和学习的理论和实践的影响。该项目还旨在为澳大利亚智能电网混乱，复杂的社会反应提供新的见解;澳大利亚是智能电网实施的最前沿国家。

New information technologies allow utility infrastructures to operate as smart grids, with the promise of multiple economic and environmental benefits. Utility infrastructures are largely unaltered since first installed 100 years ago, and smart grids have the potential to catalyse significant innovation. This project aims to investigate the societal drivers for, and implications of, smart grids and assess how these grid implementations vary from place to place. It will assess the implications of this for theory and practices of innovation and learning. This project also aims to provide new insights into the messy, complex societal reaction to smart grids in Australia; a country at the forefront of smart grid implementation.