This executive summary of the Smart Grid Future event continues on from the morning (business) and lunch (keynote) sessions

After lunch, Kevin Doran of CEES chaired the first panel on supply-side issues, which focused on the methodologies that the research community should be using. Timothy Brown, the Director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program in Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at CU presented first on the research that has occurred on the smart grid so far, making a comparison between the changes that the telecom industry went through over the last few decades and a prediction for the energy industry to go through those same changes.  Next, Professor of Electrical Engineering Frank Barnes discussed how the energy grid will need to be designed to allow for future flexibility and security because of the increasing diversity of energy sources.
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This executive summary of the Smart Grid Future event continues on from the morning (business) session

Over lunch, Vice President and Manager of NREL Steve Hauser presented the history, present and future of the power industry, which went from being a small experiment to a real industry in the early 1900s with the Federal Water Power Act and ended up being named as the greatest engineering feat of the 20^th century.
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Smart Grid Week 2010 got started at the CU Law School on November 17th with a day of roundtable discussions, presentations, and academic workshops hosted by the Center for European Law and Economics (CELEC) along with several other partners including the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, the Center for Energy and Environment Security (CEES), Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP (WBK, LLP), and TalkStandards.com.

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“There is no question that today’s structure limits innovation – as there are limited marketplaces,” says Tim Enwall, founder of Tendril, consumer energy management system innovator.
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On the eve of Smart Grid week at talk standards, this post first outlines the meaning of Smart Grids and then explores the implications for standardization along with some outstanding questions for discussion. We discuss why Smart Grid standardization is different

What is a Smart Grid?

What is a Smart Grid? How should it look like? Well, the answer depends on who you ask.
There is a general consensus that:

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As Smart Grids around the world are starting to become more of a reality, the need to understand the convergence of SCADA, IT, OT, security, communications and data standards is totally apparent to enable the engagement of the customer.
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“We need to start thinking about different business models for utilities because otherwise the traditional paradigm just doesn’t work anymore.”

In this exclusive interview, Kevin Doran, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Environmental Security (CEES) discusses the future of smart grids with TalkStandards.
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In October, Talkstandards.com hosted an open forum focused towards issues related to interoperability within European standardization and framed against the backdrop of the current EU activities. In addition to a series of expert keynote contributions (summarized below – please follow the links to access the articles in full) two exclusive interviews were conducted. The event can be found her: www.talkstandards.com/reforming-eu-standardization.

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All forum discussion will take place on this page!

This event (Thurs October 14th –  3pm GMT / 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 5pm CET / 11pm Beijing) is set to discuss mobile payment and transfer services.

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This month’s discussion asks whether the standards marketplace is delivering too little interoperability. Classical economic theory would say, with a nod to Leibniz, that the market is delivering exactly the amount of interoperability that its forces require at equilibrium. If users and stakeholders demand it, standards bodies will deliver and cooperate — probably exactly to that extent.

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