Alliances For Smart Grid Standards

Smart Grids require a rich set of technologies, protocols, APIs and, at times, proprietary technologies. For Smart Grids to work, all of these components must interoperate. Interoperability is a central factor in making Smart Grids a working reality.

A number of alliances of public and private stakeholders in Smart Grid technologies have been created. QualityLogic is an active member of many of these alliances and works to promote Smart Grid industry standards and interoperability:

• Consortium for SEP 2 Interoperability
• GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC)
• MultiSpeak
• OpenADR
• Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP)
  
• SGIP Testing and Certification Committee
• UCA CIM
• UCA OpenSG
• ZigBee Alliance

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)