Welcome to the revised, new look, week in standards. Once again we will cover the latest developments in the world of standards each week, trying to keep the ideas as concise as possible so as to cover as many developments as possible.  It is indeed surprising how quickly standards can evolve in just a week and we look forward to engaging with you and welcome your feedback.
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During the Talkstandards’ live Smart Grid event, held at the University of Colorado in Boulder; Professor Gregor Henze spoke on the prospect of aggregated demand-side energy management in large office buildings.
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Part 5: Putting the Man on the Moon
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Part 4: Global Smart Grid Technology

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Part 3: Developing a Smart Market

Mattias Ganslandt, George Arnold, Ajit Jaokar and Kevin Doran

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Part 2: Standards for innovation on the other side of the meter

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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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