Two SAE International electric vehicle standards were among the first six standards added by The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) into its Catalog of Standards. The standards, which gained approval by over 90 percent of SGIP members, reflect the high-priority national standards needed to convey the modern and energy-efficient power grid with seamlessly interoperable components. Continue reading →
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) governing board is accelerating progress toward international smart grid interoperability standards collaboration. The NIST SGIP governing board recently formed an international outreach group to advance and strengthen collaboration with other smart grid standards groups around the world via letters of intent. In Continue reading →
A new foundational standard for two-way data communications between utilities and their customers has been approved by the governing board of the public/private Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP). The proposed standard is intended to help customers better manage their energy use. via Smart Grid: One step closer to truly “smart” grid communications.
The FERC Technical Conference on Smart Grid Interoperability Standards (RM11-2-000) was held on Monday, January 31st in Washington, DC. In the video, the group discusses the adoption of five standard for the smart grid – Watch the video at FERC Webcasts
The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) and some standards development organizations (SDOs) finished joint initial work on three standards, and SGIP will now build a database that NIST, FERC, utilities and vendors can use to ensure smart devices and meters work together securely, the group’s governing board said yesterday. But one challenge still facing the Continue reading →
Following the recent announcement of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel’s (SGIP) proposed process for test and certification towards smart grid interoperability, the UCA International User Group (UCAIug), a non-profit organization that advocates the enabling of utility integration through deployment of open standards, has just said it completed an initial assessment of its 61850 based test Continue reading →
The industry has carefully studied and is now convinced of Smart Grid benefits – from enhanced reliability and increased efficiency, to the integration of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). The United States government catalyzed a groundswell of standards and deployment activity with announcements of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) and $4.5 billion in Continue reading →
In their first face-to-face meeting, the leaders of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) and utility regulators explored options for increasing state-level participation in developing the standards needed to modernize nation’s electric power system with two-way communication and control capabilities. Such capabilities will be needed to give consumers greater control over their energy bills, facilitate Continue reading →
Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, I am John McDonald, Director, Technical Strategy and Policy Development, with GE Energy’s Digital Energy business. In this role, I set and drive the vision that integrates standards, policy, regulatory and industry participation with customer solutions development at Digital Energy. My comments today are based upon Continue reading →
It takes time to hammer out an agreement, but progress is occurring. That’s the word from John McDonald, the general manager of the transmission and distribution business at General Electric and the chair of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Governing Board at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). via NIST’s Smart Grid Standards: Continue reading →
How do you know when your project has a future? When one of the fathers of the Internet joins to help with the design. This just happened to the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), a federally sponsored, multi-disciplinary standards body that held meetings during late May at the ConnectivityWeek conference in San Jose, Calif. Vint Continue reading →
The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has announced its next series of successes related to the development of interoperability standards for the Smart Grid. Within recent weeks, several critical steps were completed through the following Priority Action Plan (PAP) teams. via Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Achieves New Milestones in Developing Standards.
Instrumental in helping secure the funding, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen had a first-hand look Friday at how the N.H. Electric Cooperative will integrate “smart grid” technology to improve the way it does business, giving its members a better understanding of, and control over, the energy they use. via Sen. Shaheen visits N.H. Electric Cooperative’s ‘smart Continue reading →
The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that John D. McDonald, general manager of marketing for GE Energy’s transmission and distribution business and an IEEE Fellow, will serve as chair of the governing board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, the organization launched by NIST in November to sustain and Continue reading →
The U.S. government fueled significant work on a smart electric grid this year, but the hard work of making the transition to a digital power network is just beginning. That’s the view of Steve Widergren, a principal engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory recently named to head a broad new smart grid standards effort. via Continue reading →
The three-week-old Smart Grid Interoperability Panel’s (SGIP’s) governing board appointed Steve Widergren, a principal engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as plenary chair of the panel at its first meeting held December 8-9. Additionally, the SGIP, a unique public-private partnership with more than 400 member organizations, began laying plans for the new panel’s work to Continue reading →
The inaugural meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), a new stakeholder forum to provide technical support to the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as it coordinates standards for a modernized electric power system, concluded today with election of 20 members to its governing board. Established by NIST with the Continue reading →
EnerNex® Corporation continues to assist in the pioneering task of establishing the nation’s first Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), per its $8.5M contract with the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support the agency in its role of coordinating and accelerating development of Smart Grid interoperability standards. The SGIP is Continue reading →
SGIP Charter has been ratified with a count of 133 yes votes and 6 no votes The structure of the SGIP is as described in the below chart. The next steps is electing the 27 board members. Election will take place over the next two days. Electronic voting of candidates is planned to occur between Continue reading →
The balloting for the SGIP Charter governing the activties for the development of Smart Grid Interoprability framework is closed and the result will be announced at 3:30 MST Stay tuned!
