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Sep 11, 2008

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Standards for Smart Grids Data and Communication - EU

Hi there

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.

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Stephen Browning - 09/16/2008 - 06:15

Market in Transformational Change

Thank you for this enlightened article. In particular, the text passage “.... The term Smart Grid is new but the concept of advancing ....” underlines and reflects at the same time a "REALITY" within power delivery distribution communities (organizations). As per today (January 2009) Automation is still cyberspace for utilities in North America. Some utilities are more progressive than others. The majority are very cautious in implementing the smart grid technologies. Not to corner any utility but indeed the topic of smart grid is complex as you indicated in your at the end of your article “.... put someone on the moon and expect collaboration ....”. From my perspective, the electric power supply market is in transformation phase. One example is the phenomenon of market transformation into CO2-free energy generators efforts. Having that being said, we should not, on the other side, expect a change of the existing LEGACY systems overnight or within a very short period of time. CO2-reduced or CO2-free economies, for example, are a transformational effort that goes into decades. Smart grid transformations are similar and will go also into decades. The question is no more about the “Whether we should go smart grid?” rather than “How fast we will get there?” The call is on existing jurisdiction carriers with authority as well as utility managers to change attitude! It is a natural phenomenon. The blindness to see opportunity and the practice of staying focused on daily tasks is a considerable obstacle to advance utilities in their struggle to adopt on the CHANGE towards smart grid. It is a CHANGE management issue, and many managers are simply not willing, not able, not capable, cannot, don’t want, don’t like, they don’t see immediate payback, internal power struggles within organizations, business cultural factors, local social cultural mentality factors, and many more...... that resist the change towards smart grid! Reality will show, on a benchmarking scale that the group of good utilities will glance in their efforts towards smart grids!; it is not about we did a smart project here and some automation efforts there and we can glance locally; it is about the absolute effort to fulfill the concept of smart grid! That is a call for Standards across the board, first and foremost.

Note: Bilal Khashfe is automation engineer from Mannheim Univ. of Applied Sciences (Germany). He works at www.veridian.on.ca in the engineering department; bkhashfe@veridian.on.ca

Bilal (Bill) Khashfe - 01/23/2009 - 05:18

Smart Grid standards

Which companies are "enlightened" and doing research on Smart Grid protocols? Our local companies are very parochial and never heard of E2V which I heard of back in 2006. Any websites that might be helpful? Thanks

terry.sayer@comcast.net

Suzanne Sayer - 01/26/2009 - 06:22

Enlightened Smart Grid companies

Two of the organizations that have done great work on protocols are Intelligrid (part of EPRI, Joe Hughes' organization). Another is EnerNex, a power engineering firm.

Jesse Berst - 01/28/2009 - 09:12

What the smart grid means to the hospitality industry

Thank you all for your comments. I'm a graduate student (MS Hospitality Information Management) and I'm diving into research about what the smart grid is going to mean for the hospitality industry. The industry's got a lot of commercial buildings out there. In particular, I'm interested in how the protocol standards are developing, and what the industry can do to bring their systems into alignment in anticipation of the smart grid. I spent some time in the commercial nuclear power business (engineer in nuke plant during construction, testing, and operation), so I'm familiar with some aspects of this topic. The hospitality industry is not known for being "cutting edge", but I think staying ahead of this curve is important. If anyone is willing to share his/her expertise, or point me in the right direction, I will appreciate it very much. Thanks!

Diane Vondrasek - 10/22/2009 - 20:47

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I forgot to post my Email - ukpaohde@udel.edu

Diane Vondrasek - 10/22/2009 - 20:50

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