Smart grid in a crisis

This paper outlines some of the issues that may be expected to arise when a system crisis occurs and impacts an a load area or network where a full smart deployment has occurred. A system crisis could be either through (1) a major storm impacting primarily the distribution system or (2) a major transmission fault causing a large voltage disturbance or (3) a frequency excursion due to generation failure, prevalent in smaller systems e.g. SWIS. The paper aims at raising issues and questions that may need to be addressed during a rollout of smart grids.