Smart Grids for Digital Society

This paper begins with an introduction of the basic problems of traditional electric power systems that intend to develop Smart Grids (SG). The characteristics of the SG, as well as those of the new ICT systems and the New Energy Market that accompany the process of SG development, have opened up wide areas of research supported by the EU. An overview of the significant role that the Department of Computer Sciences had in this research, closes the paper.