Current Status and Development Trend of Power Big Data for the Smart Grid

Nowadays the concept of Big data has become a hot issue in IT technical development. It combines frontier information techniques with scientific research method, which is also a new research direction. Power big data is an advanced application of that concept, technology and method in electric industry, involving many aspects such as electric production, enterprise operation and management. This paper briefly analyzes the character, research object and method of power big data, discusses some existential questions in research work, finally introduces application prospect of big data technology in the field of power information.