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What will happen at the NIST Smart Grid Roadmap Workshop II on May 19th and 20th?

Below is a sneak preview of the motivation and the structure as described by Erfan Ibrahim from EPRI, Smart Grid Industry Consensus Building Lead:

Smart Grid Standards Interoperability Interim Roadmap Workshop II – Motivations:

The purpose of the Smart Grid Interoperability Workshop on May 19-20 2009 is to provide an opportunity for the NIST Domain Expert Working Groups (DEWGs) and other industry stakeholders to meet face to face for a second time to continue the consensus building process for a Smart Grid Standards Interoperability Interim Roadmap.
The key objective of this exercise is to use this consensus based process to select a particular set of interoperable standards for key interfaces between domains that make up the Smart Grid Systems of Systems.
Support high priority Smart Grid applications such as the four priority functionalities from the FERC Draft Smart Grid Policy: Demand Response, Wide Area Situational Awareness, Electric Storage, and Electric Transportation.

The Process: 6 Keys Breakout Session:

What are the relevant use cases and business functions to support the Smart Grid application?
What are the requirements that can be derived from the use cases/business functions to support the Smart Grid application?
What standards are available off the shelf to meet the requirements to support the Smart Grid application?
What additional specifications need to be developed within each selected standard to fill the gaps?
Who will develop the additional standards specifications to fill the gaps?
What will be the timeline for this development work?

Stay tuned, more to follow ….

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