Certainly smart grid technology is the enabler that allows for two-way flow of electricity. We can look at the ability to use battery resources, whether they be community resources such as buses or a community battery program, or an intertie support or line support battery, or a flywheel. There's a flywheel in Ontario that's being used that way. The grid operator can use the data regarding line losses to know when to deploy that flywheel to either charge or load as the case may be. Anything in relation to a market signal that pushes for the need or support of an electricity storage resource is now within the clear capability of the system operators to deploy and/or load through an integrated grid.
On October 16th, 2017. See this statement in context.