Paving the road to a Smart Grid
Posted by Perry Lewis on Sun, Oct 25, 2009
The Federal Government is putting a lot of resources into infrastructure improvements for utilities. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just released the first draft of a document that will provide a framework for future ‘smart grid’ and AMI implementations.
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/smartgrid_interoperability.pdf
Although this document is not great bedtime reading, it identifies the standards in the technology race to come. It’s still a draft (version 1.0), but the NIST did a good job of identifying the issues. The United States is behind Europe in terms of implementation, but that may change over the next 2-5 years. Any new meter deployment should take this into account.