1. Coordination and Acceleration of Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Allen Hefner NIST Smart Grid Team National Institute of Standards and Technology U.S. Department of Commerce

2. Smart Grid – US National Priority “We’ll fund a better, smarter electricity grid and train workers to build it…” President Barack Obama “To meet the energy challenge and create a 21st century energy economy, we need a 21st century electric grid…” Secretary of Energy Steven Chu “A smart electricity grid will revolutionize the way we use energy, but we need standards …” Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke Congressional Priority:EISA 2007, ARRA, oversight, new bills …

3. The NIST Role Energy Independence and Security Act (2007) In cooperation with the DoE, NEMA, IEEE, GWAC, and other stakeholders, NIST has “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…”

4. Government Roles in Smart Grid Federal Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Public Utility Commissions State

5. The Need for Standards is Urgent Example: Smart Meters Whirlpool Corporation To Produce One Million Smart Grid-Compatible Clothes Dryers by the End of 2011… Key element of smart grids 40 million to be deployed in the next several years in US Rapid technology evolution Absence of firm standards Requires standards for data communication, price information, schedules, demand response signals…

7. “Smart Grid Interconnection Standards” required for devices to be utility controlled operational asset and enable high penetration:

8. Dispatchable real and reactive power

9. Acceptable ramp-rates to mitigate renewable intermittency

10. Accommodate faults faster, without cascading area-wide events

12. NIST Framework and Roadmap Revised version January 2010 Smart Grid Vision / Model 75 key standards identified IEC, IEEE, … 16 Priority Action Plans to fill gaps: One completed Another added (wind plant communication) Cyber security strategy Companion document NISTIR 7628 http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/ Conceptual Reference Model

14. China, Japan, Korea, India, Brazil, France, Germany, …

15. US-EU Energy Council activities

16. Smart Grids-Electric Vehicles

17. Public workshop, USG-European Commission

18. Coordination with International Standards Organizations:

19. NIST Liaison to IEC-SG3

21. SGIP Stakeholder Categories 11

22. Priority Action Plans

23. Contact Information George Arnold National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperabilitygeorge.arnold@nist.govDavid Wollman Dean Prochaska david.wollman@nist.govdean.prochaska@nist.gov Al Hefner (NIST liaison to IEC SG3) Allen.hefner@nist.gov NIST Smart Grid Website: http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/ NIST SGIP Collaborative Twiki site: http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-sggrid/bin/view/SmartGrid/