High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC), located on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, is an organization focused on developing the next generation of technologies and innovation for the SmartGrid. Partnerships with government, technology providers, DOE research labs and universities, utilities, policy makers, and electric vehicle and appliance manufacturers provide SMERC with diverse capabilities and exceptional, matured leadership. The organizations ever-growing developments are created with the intention to satisfy the Smart Grid by allowing an increase in grid flexibility, integration of renewable energy sources, competitive energy pricing, improved efficiencies, and reduce power outages and losses. Overall SMERC`s developments will provide a service by being more responsive to the market, consumer, and society in general. Currently, SMERC is performing research on Microgrids, Automated Demand Response, Electric Vehicle Integration (G2V and V2g), Cybersecurity, and Distributed and renewable integration. All technology and research is being developed and collected at UCLA`s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science by a team of well experienced staff and the school`s graduate students.