Smart-Grid Standard Setting and Interoperability

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Smart-Grid Standard Setting and Interoperability

• Ross Baldick
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Cockrell School of Engineering
• The University of Texas at Austin
• April 8, 2011

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Context

• Multiple standards limits interoperability of
  smart grids, impeding consumer acceptance and
  increasing costs.
• Innovation and deployment may be constrained
  absent legal and technical frameworks.
• The National Institute of Standards and
  Technology (NIST) has primary responsibility to
  coordinate development of an interoperability
  framework.

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Context, continued

• Is NIST the most appropriate locus of this
  standards authority?
• Is it premature to be setting standards?
• Should other institutions such as IEEE be the
  locus of standards setting?
• How about the role of other authorities such as
  the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and
  Federal Communications Commission?

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Rik Drummond

• CEO and Chief Scientist of Drummond Group, Inc.
• Original chairman of the GridWise Architecture
  Council.
• Has championed interoperability and the need to
  develop a crosscutting electricity community of
  people and organizations in the electricity
  industry.

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Bill Muston

• Research and Development Manager at Oncor.
• Engaged in advancing the application of emerging
  technologies in the electric utility industry,
  include technical needs or barriers,
  institutional issues, and user acceptance.
• Ongoing efforts in synchrophasors, energy
  storage, and utilization of the smart meter
  ecosystem.

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Parviz Adib

• Founder of Pionergy consulting firm, developing
  value added services to meet consumers needs and
  preferences.
• Retired the Public Utility Commission of Texas in
  2007, head of the first Market Monitoring Unit
  for ERCOT market, between 2000 and 2006.
• Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas
  at Austin where he taught graduate and
  undergraduate courses. 

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Andres Carvallo

• Technologist, author, and operations expert in
  the Energy, Telecommunications, Computer, and
  Software industries.
• Twenty-five years of experience including at
  Austin Energy, Philips Electronics, Digital
  Equipment Corporation, Borland, Microsoft and
  five start-ups. 
• Chief architect of Austin Energys smart grid.
• Author of The Advanced Smart Grid.

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Bert Haskell

• Technology Director for Pecan Street project, a
  customer focused smart grid demonstration project
  that will encompass 1,000 homes in Austin.
• Twenty years of engineering and product
  development experience in areas ranging from
  Consumer Electronics to Thin Film Photovoltaics,
  including at numerous Austin companies such as
  MCC, AMD, Motion Computing, and HelioVolt.

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Mark Rose

• General Manager and CEO of Bluebonnet Electric
  Cooperative.
• Also served in CEO positions in the public and
  private sector, most notably with Public
  Strategies, Inc. and the Lower Colorado River
  Authority.
• Held elected office on the Austin City Council
  and the Bastrop ISD School Board.