Grid computing technology enhances electrical power systems implementations

Modern power systems and their applications are developed rapidly bringing many obstacles to be considered and solved. Complexities and difficulties for handling these applications make scientists looking for better solutions to get efficient, redundant, and clean power generation. This need requires geographically-distributed power systems to be integrated as a single entity where among the main features of this integration are large data base and computing intensive. Hence the current power systems are incapable to handle integration requirements for both computational power and datasets sizes. Grid Computing is a coming innovative solution. This paper describes grid computing as an efficient computational technology, the research work on why grid computing is needed for modern power systems, what are the major challenges that grid computing is forcing to be integrated into power systems, and how grid computing can be utilized to fulfil the requirement for next efficient power generation.