Seven pre-meetings and a plenary into this workshop, it already feels like I have been here for a week. It has come a long way; everyone from the president’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to the state-side National Association or Regulatory and Utility Commissioners (NARUC) is on the same message. Smart grid interoperability standards must provide a platform for innovation. We must support more players and new entrants into energy markets. We must not make decisions in one domain that constrain the other domains.
Even before the conference started, I was talking to new people bringing their skills and knowledge to the problems of energy. Last night, I spoke for a long time with Greg Schwartz of CalConnect on the problems of coordinating activities across our daily lives, whether class schedules or energy prices, whether building systems or industrial operations. He identified his biggest problem as one of institutional awareness. CalConnect has key technical members in Oracle, Microsoft and Apple. Increased awareness is needed so that their calendar standards people will be given the time to finish the cross-cutting web services of scheduling.
via Monday Morning at the Smart Grid SDO Workshop – The New Daedalus.
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- May 19 – 20 Smart Grid Standards Interoperability Interim Roadmap Workshop
- NIST May 19 – 20 SG Standards Interoperability Interim Roadmap Workshop II
- Day 1 – NIST May 19-20 Smart Grid Standards Roadmap Workshop
- First round of interoperability standards for Smart Grid announced — Government Computer News
- NIST Announces Third Smart Grid Public Workshop, Aug. 3-4
