Katz, R.H., D.E. Culler, S. Sanders, S. Alspaugh, Y. Chen, S. Dawson-Haggerty, P. Dutta, et al. "An Information-centric Energy Infrastructure: The Berkeley View." Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems 1, no. 1 (2011): 7-22.
Chapter 9: Data Communications, Cybersecurity, and Information Privacy; MIT report on future electricity systems (http:
//mitei.mit.edu/publications/reports-studies/future-electric-grid)
Appendix B MIT report: Electric Power System Basics(http://mitei.mit.edu/publications/reports-studies/future-electric-grid)
Adaptiveness
Chapter 5: The Impact of Distributed Generation and Electric Vehicles, MIT report on future of electricity grid(http://mitei.mit.edu/publications/reports-studies/future-electric-grid)
Barker, S., A. Mishra, D. Irwin, P. Shenoy, and J. Albrecht. "SmartCap: Flattening Peak Electricity Demand in Smart Homes." In 2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 67 -75, 2012. doi:10.1109/PerCom.2012.6199851.
Georgiadis, Giorgos, and Marina Papatriantafilou. "A Greedy Algorithm for the Unforecasted Energy Dispatch Problem with Storage in Smart Grids." Chalmers University of Technology, 2012. http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/dcs/TechReports/CS_TR_2012_13.pdf.
Some more bibliography can be found in the mindmap below (click here for the pdf, if the flash doesnt work for you). The idea is to move (from root to leaf) on one branch of papers and (for the team) to pick the first two or if you are interested all three.