Smart Grid, a step toward cloud electricity.

By cloud electricity I don’t mean generating electricity from clouds. I mean something similar to cloud computing, where we share, resource and computing power. So will be in a few decades the case to electricity and the first step is smart grid. Smart grid uses information to make decision on how to distribute energy, rate energy and also retrieve energy. I won’t go into details on what a smart gird is, rather I will try to explain why I think this is a step towards cloud electricity and what made me think so. Cloud computing as I said is a way to optimize software use and its resource. Similarly smart grid , also tries to do the same. It will transmit energy, whenever its required, and store when not. This will reduce transmission loss, energy theft etc. But what really made me think it as a cloud was the receiver will also act as a generator. Say you have a hybrid car, which is plugged into your home. This car might have excess of energy, hence during peak hours like evening, the smart gird, will take energy from your car and supply it to your home and where its required. What do you think about that?