Smartening the Grid Through Increments and Evolutions Toward Energy Transition: Insights from Argumentation Analysis

In this paper we raise the necessity of a consensus on the definition for smart grid, considering its incremental and evolutional nature. Several definitions of Smart Grid are presented then, according to standards and institutional organizations, as well as the well-known textbooks, followed by a chronological trend analysis of the term “smart grid” in scientific databases. The incremental and evolutional nature of energy transition is investigated in smart grid paradigm. Subsequently, an Argumentation Theory approach is applied as a discourse analysis on a PowerGlobe IEEE PES forum discussion initiated by Professor P. F. Ribeiro, including a structural analysis, followed by a semantic analysis to extract the dynamism and the concept of the discussion.