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Standards are critically important in the electric power industry because they affect interoperability, compatibility, reliability, and efficiency. As companies feverishly develop solutions for the Smart Grid, new standards will emerge rapidly. Those who fail to adapt quickly will find themselves heading down dead-end paths. Don’t allow yourself to be “Betamaxxed.” Watch this space for key developments and resources.
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The announcement of a French and Japanese effort to create a new powerline communications protocol of their own has us wondering... why spend the time and money to reinvent what we already have?
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New transformer standards from the Department of Energy toughen up rules for transformers used in buildings but leave mandates for distribution transformers used by utilities largely unchanged. We agree with energy efficiency advocates who say the DOE called it wrong. Click to find out why.
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The ZigBee Alliance has released its third ZigBee IP specification, which it says is the first open standard for an IPv6-based full wireless mesh networking solution and offers seamless Internet connections for controlling low-cost, low-power devices.
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Utility professionals who deal with home energy management may want to pay attention to the G.hn standard, which allows very-high-speed networking over home power lines. The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel just accepted it into its Catalog of Standards.
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There's a little problem with home energy management products: Since manufacturers don't use a common form of communication there's no guarantee devices from different makers will be interoperable or that there will be interoperability between the products and the grid. The EISA is trying to do something about it.
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Following its recent transition from a public-private partnership to a member-led, industry-based organization, the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel has named its first CEO. Click for details on the experience Patrick Gannon brings to the SGIP.
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New research from Newton-Evans unearthed several significant trends - and one that was just plain disappointing: U.S. utilities are failing to stay current with today's standards and best practices.
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One of the many things high on the smart grid wish list is grid-connected homes and businesses capable of responding to changing grid conditions, but that wish begs the question: How do we provide that level of grid connectivity in a time of constant innovation and competing standards? A new standard from the Consumer Electronics Association may well answer that question.
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A new IMS Research report says U.S. and Canadian utilities have been sluggish in adopting substation communications standard IEC 61850 despite its becoming more mainstream in Latin America and other global markets. We understand the reluctance but suggest that our utilities take a longer-term view and rethink their position.
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Standards clarity should emerge in the next few years so we can, as one CEO puts it, migrate from working on fairly pedestrian problems - like how things plug together - to more interesting problems. Click to see what those might be (and what other industry insiders are saying about the path to standards maturity).
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Regulators and policymakers are very much a part of the smart grid's gradual evolution toward maturity, but what can we expect from them in the next 10 years? Executives from Cisco, DNV KEMA, S&C Electric and other notable smart grid companies weigh in with their thoughts on the changes we can expect to see, how they expect their companies to be affected and more. (Hint: there isn't really a consensus.)
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Brian Rich, Senior Director, Customer Care and Demand Side Technologies at PG&E, discusses how open standards enabled them to give their customers more choice and control in this video produced by Silver Spring Networks.
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No company has been banging the standards drum longer or louder than Silver Spring Networks. And yet, more than a decade later, standards are still not as entrenched as they need to be, as explained in today's guest editorial by SSN's CTO Raj Vaswani.
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IEEE has introduced new standards and a standards development project that focus on communications and operational needs intended to support the continuing growth and evolution of the smart grid industry. Learn more about them inside.
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A group of noted standards organizations has issued a set of principles intended as a framework for global open standards. They're based on the standardization that contributed so much to the success of the Internet and web.
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