interoperability – Knowledge Problem

The Uk Smart Meter Transition: Industry Structure, Market Power, and Interoperability

Economics, Electricity, Energy markets, Regulation, Technology / By Lynne Kiesling

The UK government started an energy digital smart meter rollout in 2008, an “… £11bn scheme to put 53m devices in 30m homes and small businesses by 2020” to yield an estimated gross benefit of £16.7bn. Calling the rollout a disaster would be generous — it’s behind schedule, about £1bn over budget, and full of technical …

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NIST Smart Grid Advisory Committee

1 Comment / Economics, Electricity, Technology / By Lynne Kiesling

The electric power network is becoming increasingly digital. I started working on digital technology and smart grid topics in 2004, and served on the GridWise Architecture Council 2005-2009, focusing on enhancing understanding and use of interoperability principles in business and regulatory decisions. One of the important partners in expanding awareness of interoperability and its importance …

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Nist Smart Grid Workshop

1 Comment / Economics, Electricity / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling I’m at a NIST smart grid workshop, where the objective is to take the identified, prioritized smart grid interoperability standards requirements and start working on the game plan for developing interoperability standards out of them. Toby Considine sat next to me yesterday morning and wrote about his observations, so I’ll spare you mine, …

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A Roundup of Some Smart Grid Links

2 Comments / Economics, Electricity, Technology / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling The Department of Energy has published a new, very user-friendly introduction to smart grid technologies, benefits, and policies (pdf). I have some quibbles with some of the details, but if you are a newcomer to smart grid (say, for example, if you have heard that this is a primary objective of the incoming …

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