Resources and References For Smart Grid Technologies

The following references and standards documents provide an overview of technologies that may be used to implement Smart Grid systems:

• The Smart Grid: An Introduction, US Department of Energy
• FERC’s Smart Grid Policy Statement, US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• GridWise Interoperability Context-Setting Framework, The GridWise Architecture Council
• Report to NIST on the Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Roadmap, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
• Pacific Northwest GridWise Testbed Demonstration Projects Part I. Olympic Peninsula Project, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
• Pacific Northwest GridWise Testbed Demonstration Projects Part II. Grid Friendly Appliance Project, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
• Standards and Protocols for an Interoperable Smart Grid, NIST presented to California Public Utilities Commission.
• Smart Grid section on California Public Utilities Commission web site.
• GridWise Architecture Council web site
• Department of Energy SmartGrid web site
• NIST Smart Grid web site
• Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project web site

Events

• Energy Central Featured Events

Smart Grid Interoperability Maturity Model

• Read the James Mater/Rik Drummond presentation to Grid Interop 2009:
  A Smart Grid Interoperability Maturity Model Rating System
• Request the Smart Grid Interoperability Maturity Model Proceedings of 2010 PES General Meeting (pdf)

Interoperability and Decision-Maker's Checklist

• Download Gridwise Architecture Council Introduction to Interoperability and Decision Maker’s Interoperability Checklist Version 1.0
• Request the Decision-Maker's Checklist - QualityLogic Proposed Additions (pdf)