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Interoperability Standards and Next
Generation Interconnectivity
Pankaj Batra
Chief (Engineering)
CERC
NEED FOR STANDARDS
• Risk that the diverse Smart Grid technologies will
become prematurely obsolete.
• Risk about security.
• Risk of obsolescence due to changing
communication protocols.
• Non encouragement of competition.
• Impediment of future innovation and the
realization of promising applications, such as
smart appliances that are responsive to price and
demand response signals.
• Standards enable economies of scale.
DISPENSATION IN USA
• National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) has been made the National
Coordinator in the USA.
LEGAL PROVISION
• Under the Energy Independence and Security
Act of 2007 (EISA), the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) is assigned
the “primary responsibility to coordinate
development of a framework that includes
protocols and model standards for
information management to achieve
interoperability of Smart Grid devices and
systems…”
REPORT BY NIST
• A Report has been prepared by NIST entitled
“NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid
Interoperability Standards, Release 1.0” and is
in the public domain.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• There is an urgent need to establish protocols
and standards for the Smart Grid.
• Deployment of various Smart Grid elements,
including smart sensors on distribution lines,
smart meters in homes, and widely dispersed
sources of renewable energy, is already
underway.
• Without standards, there is the potential for
technologies developed or implemented with
sizable public and private investments to become
obsolete prematurely or to be implemented
without measures necessary to ensure security.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• The EISA specifies that the interoperability
framework should be “flexible, uniform, and
technology neutral.”
• The law also instructs that the framework
should accommodate “traditional, centralized
generation and distribution resources” while
also facilitating incorporation of new,
innovative Smart Grid technologies, such as
distributed renewable energy resources and
energy storage.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• NIST developed a three-phase plan to
accelerate the identification of an initial set of
standards and to establish a robust framework
for the sustaining development of the many
additional standards that will be needed and
for setting up a conformity testing and
certification infrastructure.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• The Report identifies 75 existing standards that
are applicable (or likely to be applicable) to the
ongoing development of the Smart Grid,
• specifies 15 high-priority gaps and harmonization
issues (in addition to cyber security) for which
new or revised standards and requirements are
needed,
• documents action plans with aggressive timelines
by which designated standards-setting
organizations (SSOs) will address these gaps, and
• describes the strategy to establish requirements
and standards to help ensure Smart Grid cyber
security.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• The document was drafted through an open
public process that engaged the broad
spectrum of Smart Grid stakeholder
communities and the general public.
• Input was provided through three public
workshops, in April, May and August 2009, in
which more than 1,500 individuals
representing hundreds of organizations
participated.
• NIST also consulted with stakeholders through
extensive outreach efforts
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• A draft of this report underwent a 30-day
public review and comment period, which
ended on November 9, 2009.
• All comments received were considered
during the preparation of the report.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• The Report identifies seven domains:
bulk generation, transmission,
distribution, markets, operations,
service provider, and customer.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
Eight Priorities for Standardization
identified by FERC
• Demand Response and Consumer Energy
Efficiency
• Wide-Area Situational Awareness
• Energy Storage
• Electric Transportation
• Advanced Metering Infrastructure
• Distribution Grid Management
• Cyber Security
• Network Communications
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• NIST believes that Smart Grid interoperability
standards should be open. This means that the
standards should be developed and
maintained through a collaborative,
consensus-driven process that is open to
participation by all relevant and materially
affected parties and not dominated by, or
under the control of, a single organization or
group of organizations. As important, the
standards resulting from this process should
be readily and reasonably available to all for
Smart Grid applications.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• Smart Grid interoperability standards
should be developed and
implemented internationally,
whenever practical.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
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Aggressive milestones were established (some completed
in 2009, and the others expected to be completed during
2010). One action plan has already been completed and
substantive progress has been made in meeting the
milestones of others. The Priority Action Plans and targets
for completion are:
Smart meter upgradeability standard (completed)
Common specification for price and product definition
(early 2010)
Common scheduling mechanism for energy transactions
(early 2010)
Common information model for distribution grid
management (year-end 2010)
Standard demand response signals (early 2010)
Standards for energy use information (mid 2010)
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• DNP3 Mapping to IEC 61850 Objects (2010)
• Harmonization of IEEE C37.118 with IEC 61850 and precision
time synchronization (mid 2010)
• Transmission and distribution power systems models mapping
(year-end 2010)
• Guidelines for use of IP protocol suite in the Smart Grid (mid
2010)
• Guidelines for use of wireless communications in the Smart Grid
(mid 2010)
• Energy storage interconnection guidelines (mid 2010)
• Interoperability standards to support plug-in electric vehicles
(year-end 2010)
• Standard meter data profiles (year-end 2010)
• Harmonize power line carrier standards for appliance
communications in the home (year-end 2010)
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• Under EISA, the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) is charged with instituting
rulemaking proceedings, and once sufficient
consensus is achieved, adopting the standards and
protocols necessary to ensure Smart Grid functionality
and interoperability in interstate transmission of
electric power and in regional and wholesale
electricity markets.
• Although the product of federal legislation, the
collaborative standardization process that NIST and
Smart Grid stakeholders are building must interface
effectively with all states and territories and their
regulatory agencies.
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
• The second phase of the NIST plan was formally
launched in November 2009.
• It involves an ongoing organization and consensus
process that is being formalized under the newly
formed Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP).
• The SGIP is a public-private partnership that provides
a more permanent organizational structure to support
the continuing evolution of the framework.
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