ICT and power: Synergy and hostility

An attempt is made in this paper to summarize the state of the art in the interaction between the ICT (information communication technologies) that becomes ubiquitous and the electrical power production and distribution. Both are considered to have a difficult task to fulfill enormous rise of demand that is becoming above all expectations. In the same time they technologically interfere in the sense that they mutually help in the fulfillment of their main task while in the same time loading each other with problems inherent to the respective technology. In the paper we will try to merge our (LEDA laboratory of the University of Niš) own results with ones available in the literature in order to give as complete a picture of the subject as possible.