Steve Widergren - Track leader Principal Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)   | Implementing Smart Grid Standards Now! |
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To realize smart grid capabilities, business plans need to balance the investment costs with anticipated benefits. Smart grid deployments, such as demand response and electric vehicle charging, require the connection of millions of devices and systems. To make business plans successful, integration must become straightforward, reliable, and scalable. In an ecosystem like electricity, that means that service providers in all related sectors need to align themselves around interface standards that support ease of integration. This is referred to as interoperability and at the forefront of the interoperability movement is the SGIP (Smart Grid Interoperable Panel) who will be sharing with attendees the status of implementable standards, as well as efforts to develop an organizing architecture and testing and certification tools to see that products actually do integrate simply and reliably.
Steve Widergren - Session leader Principal Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) | |
Since its inception in November of 2009, the SGIP has been identifying and addressing high priority gaps in standards to support smart grid deployments. Progress has been made in several areas and new work is beginning. Hear the progress and directions being taken by the SGIP to facilitate interoperability of devices and systems that are emerging in the evolution to a smarter electric ecosystem.
Mark Klerer - Speaker
Senior Director - Technology
Qualcomm
David Mollerstuen - Speaker
Founder
Alcatraz Energy
George Arnold - Speaker
National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability
NIST
John McDonald - Speaker
Director, Technical Strategy & Policy Development
GE
Stuart McCafferty - Speaker
Vice President
EnerNex
Steve Widergren - Chair
Principal Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Eric Simmon - Session leader NIST  | |
What is smart grid architecture? Why do we need an architecture? This session will explain this and what is being done in the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) SG Architecture Committee including a review the SGAC Conceptual Architecture work, the status of the semantic working group in the SGAC and the overall status of standards from an architectural standpoint.
The Conceptual Architecture work has just completed its first draft builds on the NIST Conceptual Framework and adds two levels of detail to the framework and will be used by the DEWG (Domain Expert Working Group), the CSWG (Cyber Security Working Group) and others for a basis for their architecture related discussions. The Semantic working group is facilitating groups with similar semantic models to coordinate with each other on updates to their work. The SGAC is responsible to the SGIP for review of architecture issues in PAP (Priority Action Plan) and Standards, several PAPs are currently in progress and the panel will discuss some of their thoughts on these in process PAPs.
Tony Giroti - Panelist
CEO
1Efficiency, Inc.
Eric Simmon - Moderator
NIST
Doug Houseman - Panelist
VP Technology and Innovation
EnerNex
Steve Ray - Panelist
Distinguished Research Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University
William Cox - Panelist
Principal
Cox Software Architects LLC
Rik Drummond - Session leader CEO and Chief Scientist
Drummond Group Inc.  | |
Energy Security Independence Act of 2007 established a Federal effort to modernize the USA electric power grid. The focus of this was achieving Interoperability among the Smart Grid components. It gave responsibility for this effort to four entities:
1) Department of Energy – to establish a Smart Grid Task Force
2) Department of Commerce – to establish a Smart Grid Advisory Committee,
3) DoC/NIST to establish an industrial government collaboration effort that resulted in the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP)
4) FERC through rule-making to establish these finding in regulation as they received industry wide consensus.
The SGIP has three permanent committees within its charter: Architecture, Testing and Certification and Cyber security (a WG) Additionally, SGIP support DEWGs and PAP. The Priority Action Plans are ad hoc efforts to facilitate interoperability among specific existing standards; The DEWGs are focused on research endeavors.
Today’s session will focus on the status of the implementation of the ESIA 2007, within NIST/SGIP Testing and Certification Committee and its rolled out and expected impact to the industry.
Rik Drummond - Moderator
CEO and Chief Scientist
Drummond Group Inc.
Chuck Shih - Panelist
Edge Holdings
Zahra Makoui - Panelist
Lead
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Marianne Swanson - Panelist
Senior advisor for information system security
NIST
