Good to see the initiative on standards in the US.

Back in Aug 07 I submitted the following paragraph for the strategic document of the European Union Smartgrids Technology Platform (research guidance forum).

"Standards for communication and data structure must be defined early (EU wide) to encourage a wide range of manufacturers to provide compliant, interoperable component systems. Data at individual premises level is reasonably sparse. Power line carrier with tight bandwidth restrictions could be used between DER customer sites/microgrids and aggregator mechanisms (higher distribution level subs). From thence to the Operators (TO, DO, SO) and Market via the main communications network."

Shortly following this, the EU research Energy Work program for FP7 was published; from this the curent 08 call carries a request for projects to develop Open-Access standards for Smart multi-metering services.

"Research activities should cover formal definition of protocols, data formats and all the necessary modules of integrated open-access Integrated Automatic Meter Management Systems. Among the functions covered will be automatic meter

reading, remote (re)connection, flexible tariff management, demand side management and demand response to market and network signals, and integration of Distributed Generation."

My own view of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) is that we need to cover Generation, Demand and Storage, from premises level, with control, monitoring and prediction.

Best Regards

Steve Browning

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