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Due to this COVID’19 Pandemic situation, the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College in association with New Horizon Engineering College jointly organized a Seven Days Webinar Series on “Smart Grid Integration & Energy Storage Systems” during 10th to 16th July 2021. Many Participants from various institutions in and around Tamil Nadu has participated in the technical webinar. The event commenced with a Welcome address by Dr. M. Mahesh, Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NHCE who elaborated on the requirement of innovative ideas to make the society smarter. He also briefed on how this kind of webinar bridges the gap between industry and Academia. The Event Coordinator Dr. B. Gunapriya, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NHCE elaborated about the Webinar. On 10.07.2021, Dr. Vijyarajeshwaran communicated that Smart Grid is a concept and vision that captures a range of advanced information, sensing, communications, control, and energy technologies. He explained the various technical challenges along with Economic, Policy, and Regulatory Challenges. The speaker briefed about the two dominant technical challenges that can be identified with a higher penetration of RE generation: 1) managing variability and uncertainty during the continuous balancing of the system, and 2) balancing supply and demand during generation scarcity and surplus situations. The session was impressive and interactive On 11.07.2021, Dr. S. U. Prabha expressed that, Grid integration is the practice of developing efficient ways to deliver variable renewable energy (VRE) to the grid. Good integration methods maximize the cost- effectiveness of incorporating VRE into the power system while maintaining or increasing system stability and reliability. She also mentioned that most of the time, the grid will absorb all of the electricity produced by renewables because there is sufficient demand for electricity. As a result, the more renewable energy resources present on the grid, the less electricity must be generated using conventional fossil-fuel plants. The session was interactive On 12.07.2021, Dr. A. Immanuel Selvakumar conducted a comprehensive study on the application of big data and machine learning in the electrical power grid introduced through the emergence of the next-generation power system-the smart grid. He mentioned big data analysis and machine learning techniques were essential to reaping these benefits. In the complex connected system of SG, cyber security becomes a critical issue; IoT devices and their data turning into major targets of attacks On 13.07.2021, Dr. K. Selvakumar voiced that, Demand response is a strategy used by electric utility companies to reduce or shift energy consumption from peak hours of the day, when the demand for electricity is the greatest to leaner demand periods. He defined it as a measure for reducing energy load in response to supply constraints, generally during periods of peak demand. His focus was on the managing the DR and he concentrated more on the electric utility and system operators for which he gave two choices available: 1. Increase the size and dimension of the network which is costly and requires time to implement. 2. Utilize energy management in order to reduce the possibility of high peak demand during peak hours. The session was very informative.