I have been following smart grid standards especially since the talkstandards meeting in Boulder Colorado (the world’s first smart grid city) and also as a part of the Week in Standards posts on Talkstandards. And these standards are evolving rapidly. Here I give a flavour of what I mean in terms of the current and the future.

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This week passed was a quite surprising week in standards with a proposed scale down of the budgets for data.gov and other sites, yet another cloud standards body launched, plus other interesting views and news from the world of standards. Please feel free to leave any comments/suggestions in the comment section below.
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I would firstly like to express my thanks to Prof. Dieter Ernst for his great work, his objective analysis and fruitful findings. Such kind of analysis is surely great for fostering dialogues and facilitating the cooperation between China and Western world.
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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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Talkstandards.com had an Open Forum on eGovernment and ICT standardization yesterday. The discussion focused on eGov policies and how eGov strategies can contribute to the development and innovation of the public sector.
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Interoperability between ICT systems in the public sector is an important policy objective for the European Union. It is regarded an important means to solve conventional issues relating to digital communications between independent organizations and entities and enable seamless and cost-effective delivery of public services. Hopes are that is should also facilitate cross-border mobility. It is thus at the heart of the EU policy to create an integrated market and better European public services.

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