The Smart Grid is broad in its scope, so the potential standards landscape is also very large and complex. This is why “standards” adoption has become a challenge. However, the opportunity today is that utilities, vendors and policy makers are actively engaged. And, there are mature standards that are applicable and much work on emerging standards and cyber-security can be leveraged. Technology is not the barrier to adoption. The fundamental issue is organization and prioritization to focus on those first aspects that provide the greatest customer benefit toward the goal of achieving an interoperable and secure Smart Grid.

Mar 3, 2009