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:
I doubt anyone suggests there has been a true market failure in setting smart grid standards. I would argue the pitfalls of mandates are numerous, particularly in new and dynamic technologies. Empowering a government organization, such as NIST in the US, to organize the effort, convene stakeholders, and set the agenda and deadlines to comport with statutory requirements is a better approach.
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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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IEEE has announced the availability of IEEE P1547.8 standard which is a draft standard establishing a common technical platform for distributed resources interconnection applications.
IEEE P1547.8 expands on IEEE 1547 and also incorporates National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommendations for improved interconnection performance functionality
Andy Updegrove recently posted an interesting article on ConsortiumInfo.org that discussed new legislation in the US which he hopes will close the growing divide with respect to “institutional understanding of the relationship between standards and trade” between on the one hand China and the EU, and on the other the US.
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Abstract: This is a multi part blog about Smart Grid standardization. It outlines the complexities and the standards at the ‘last mile’ of the Smart Grid i.e. between the Smart meter and the home area network. This is the key interface from the customer standpoint.
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Photo: Tom Harpel
Following the previous trend of Mobile Healthcare, Smart Grids is another area where previously discrete areas are converging. In this case, it is ICT, Telecoms and Energy. Once again, we have a familiar theme of recession driven stimulus funding driving this space. And again, the same question arises – how do we standardise a domain when it is rapidly evolving, spans multiple traditional domain and has a sense of urgency (in this case – global warming and other ecological considerations)?
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Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently announced that they are backing the OASIS Energy Interoperation Technical Committee to enable collaborative and dynamic use of energy. The goal is to develop web service-based information and communication models for exchanging dynamic pricing, reliability and emergency signals building upon open standards (see article).
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