THe answer is yes we can.We in India qre very close to doing it.Deskilling the jobs and standardisation is the answer. Ours is totally new approach to the problem.

We have been missing the horse all the time in this hype.the fact remains systems have to follow the basic concepts like all  rest follow- you have a police station for an area, you have the post office for an area, you have a substation for an area., you havs an administration office and council for an area , then why  do you not have an IT office for that area!Why must you be building all the systems like it used to be before the concept of functional and geograhical distribution was created.All electrical systems also are built on this concept. All those who think in terms of massive computers are missing a fundamental point.This creats  massive amount of data that you do not need  and wasteful application of analytical knowledge at best. All electrical systems in normal routine are exapmles of managenment by exeption and only when future planning is done additional data is required.So there is in reality no point in building systems that have massive data crisscrossing everwhere around the  nets.These days new  technology such as cloud computing can solve many a problem in rolling over registers. I can illustrate this with a very simple example- Alex is living in new Delhi to search for him you will run the entire  data of New Delhi.That means you will need all that data.All this data need to be transported to a centrel computer.But if the locality of the Alex has a computer to store that data it need not be transferred.Banks are now keeping data in a centrel storage- many a times I find that there are long ques becuse the link to server is lost/ Now modern technology as developed now does not require this type of centralized storage.(may be for archives) So it is necessary to change the architecture to reduce the complexity . In factt we have demystified this whhole coincept of smart grid and smart metering !!