Smart Grid Blog

Welcome. If you've been with us up til now, you will doubtless recall that YHA (your humble author) is on a quest to provide you, the ISGO (interested smart grid observer) with an overview of Special NIST Document 1108, the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards. This week we intend to focus in on an important Chapt, that being No. 3, The Conceptual Reference Model. If you are a first-time offender, it might be helpful to refer back to last week's blog to get an overview of the whole document. Or you can go to the one before that and read them in series, if you are having trouble sleeping or something.

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In last week's blog, YHA (your humble author) introduced the topic of Special NIST Document 1108, the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards. I promised that you, the ISGO (interested smart grid observer), would get an overview of this important document, and that we'd talk about some of the most important concepts, atleast in the opinion of YHA.

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There is a lot of collaborative work going on the Smart Grid community to develop standards that will make different components of the grid interoperate. Like any other group, the SG community has some really active people, and then the rest of us. Those active people are already dialed in to what's going on within the core groups that are leading the charge towards better interoperability and cyber security, like NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology), the SGIP (Smart Grid Interoperability Panel), the GWA (GridWise Alliance), and the GWAC (GridWise Architecture Council). And of course there are also NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation), FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory commission, and the DOE (Department of Energy).

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