well thank you very much of the organisers for inviting me to this and a of your interest in this smart red i from the national institute of standards and technology in the united states and i wanna talk about some of the uh aspects of this smart read from my organisational set there are a lot of different pieces that need to be put in place for the smart grid work we just heard some about some of the economic considerations of but but there is huge this is a huge working infrastructure structure and as such it as many different components and pieces and i of describe some parts of the standards yeah and the measurements to support a smart a general of already heard some introduction towards the economics of this smart grid more generally the smart grid is a modernisation of the electorate and what we're doing is pointing in advanced communications in this traditional infrastructure and where to enable some of these uh benefit some of which were described in the previous time more generally were looking for two way flow of electricity and information with a more resilient system part of this is that since it is such a large system involves so many different players all of the different parts the system need to know what the communication protocols are what the schemes are the economics schemes the expected behaviours within this very large system as such standards and the one point to standards here talking about document terry standards form a a strong for of what is needed for the smart so this is a brief introduction i'm gonna focus most my talk an accelerating smart grid standards and then get to some of the measurements that we're doing to support this right you're a few things about the north american red uh i in L sense i don't want to go into detail here but the important part is that it's a very complicated system and it's not just complicated from a technology point of view it's also complicated from a political and regulatory point of there many different electric utilities some are investor around utilities some are world clock were two so there is a whole host of size scales capabilities within the system there are in the us there's many different states worldwide there are many different regulatory agencies that govern uh lectures city uh a a a generation use the other thing to point out from an economics to follow on the economics point of view is that we have a a very large capital intensive industry where there is investment in generating capacity and transmission that is scaled to meet the P the me so basically you are paying for a lot of infrastructure all the time even when the load on the system is much lower we can be more efficient and i really drives some price uh uh benefits if are able to operate closer to those march with the need to move to renewable energy we're gonna need to have a system that's is able to respond quicker when we and turns on and off once solar is available and it's not all of the use things will lead us work closer to that a peak a T and hopefully do it in such a way that will be able to reap the benefits without having to do a whole extra load of and my on the other hand the entire system needs modernisation so this is a system that is going to have investment anyway there is a a huge you trillions of dollars worth of investment that's needed both and us and role in the U S are the smart grid is a a a us national priority uh we have the support of all of the upper level politicians and and also the U S energy policy is starts from the energy independence and security act which gave nist my institution a actually role of already talked a lot about some of the drivers i'm gonna skip of this as well as this this just kind of shows the level of variability of when this is what we have to be able to have the communications and place to help again we also the previous speaker much electric vehicles electric vehicles can both be a positive or a negative there potentially good for the environment however if people come home and at the end of the day all choose to charge their electric vehicles at the same time this of actually add to the peak demand and and make things were if through communications we can get people to charge in the middle of the night then it averages out the overall load and makes things better this points out like communications and so port without communication you'll probably end up with this with a communications and control of the charging a one have a much better stay to give an example the complexity of standards just looking at the electric vehicle application these are some of the standards there needed for and and and interoperability solution we have electric vehicles so you have everything from the details of the standards that govern the electric vehicles the details of the standards the cover how the utilities organise their space standards in the us S uh for for for me are slightly different then then you're up which relies an I E C standard airs also safety applications the work about and then there's communication there's a whole host of various standards that need to work together and that's the hard part here is that all these standard organisations have traditionally worked around their own little part of the problem the trick is to get them to coordinate and work across the boundaries with each other to create the and and application that's for we um an for the national to the standards and technology so we are a non regulatory agency in the nine states department of commerce we were quite closely with industry academia and government in in this particular case we have a role both of the standards as well as the measurements to support smart the are a key aspect of the U S policy this particular act is what gives the instructions to the us government to look to the private sector first for how we set stand this is an aspect where we're different than the european uh way of doing things as well as others are the world we were much more on the private sector and a whole host of standards about one organisations instead of pushing things through and dates to the standards organisation it also direct the federal government to purchase to pay and they are the possibilities uh and and the technical committees for example of over four hundred of the staff at my institution or involved at technical committees working on standards one sort or another in addition it direct my institution to coordinate the federal government's use of state so the federal government can be a driver for these standards were to look to the private sector first and that is exactly what was uh uh called out you know much more visible role within this energy independence and security act which is kind of the underlying smart grid a policy fitting i states it gave us the role of who mating the development of a framework to achieve interoperability of smart grid systems and device so in essence that's are charge coordinate make development means that we're not working in a vacuum of working with others framework means that we have to imagine how this whole system is going to work together and look at all the different parts of it and we also need to make sure that these standards are flexible uniform and technology needs if you look in the investment this made in the smart grid is pretty substantial recently the department of energy put in three point four billion in as well as that's as a matched by by industry in this process so it's a rather large investment in smart grid across the us similar investments are being made across the world if you look at united states walls in smart red were here were working on the thing enters piece of it but lead agency in the U as department of energy but a similar to most you know agencies around the world there are a whole host of players everyone from the communications side the regulators enter i of energy all have to work together and in addition you have regulation that occurs at the state level that men at the most of the important regulation for the details of the distribution system a at the state model so all of these folks need to work well together and four what we did when we receive this responsibility was that we set up a a rather large are for to help to organise the community the important part here was that we had a traditional industry the power industry which had yeah interacted as much as it should of with the I T for with the communications folks with all the other parts of the smart and it was or ability to in essence act as a convener or and have a series of workshops and get all of the different standards about organisations and different engineers and scientists interest in this problem altogether together to talk three what that needs were and you help develop an initial roadmap map for where we needed to go in addition we realise that you know nist doing a lot of the heavy lifting at this first stage was it going to be sufficient we really needed a process that we hearing on for were you know more uh consistent way over time so we set up a smart grid interoperability panel which consist of over six hundred and fifty organisations that have a role to play in the smart and we also realise that standards a weren't sufficient you also needed in the end to have testing and certification to be able to i and sure that the other the products that were coming out will eventually meet what that the uh this this the state to perform and and show polish develop this road map and framework i'll make a a a a no here this particular website all of the stuff that we have done is in the public domain and it's available for anyone's use so this get you access not knowing to everything that nist is done but also the smart grid interoperability panel and all of this is available for use by ieee and others in various parts of the community of picked up the frame in its elements and are further developing thing so we set out a a smart grid vision and model we identify key standard it wasn't enough to figure out what the standards were it was also important to figure out where the problems were and then make progress to meet those needs so we put together priority action plans which were targeted efforts up an involving more than one standard about an organisation to solve a a standards yeah in addition cyber security was exceptionally important for this whole process with that a whole working group on it which is developed a guidelines and we're currently working on a revision to this frame so this of the frame mark that you'll see if you go to the website there's also this work in a release to revision which is also available for people to look at with the smart grid interoperability but upper level point of view this kind of describes the entire smart mark you of the traditional our system that needs to have a communications which are shown in blue with all of these different actors so this kind help to set the who needs to talk with home and then from those communication you can figure out what are the protocols that are needed to support smart grid communication it a listing of all of the priority action plans that we have the target specific names as should point out that were i uh uh a lying on international standards for us an essence the entire world is moving to use mark reds and the various companies want to sell to a global market relying on international standards helps that globalisation and and supports the uh the ability of all of the different regions of the world to develop their smart there's a little bit more about the smart grid interoperability panel a the important part here to notice is that uh we're doing a lot of requirements and working with the stairs but one organisations so the actual sting enters of developed in the C a development organisation such as ieee and i E C and others we're helping to organise what goes into that and target them and try to accelerate prague we also do a lot with but web based participation is living get were wide participation we do a lot through tell a conferences and web meeting uh this is an international group we have a large uh international participation from various countries and the world such as japan korea state read from china all of this stairs but one organisations we have a very strong international component to the stuff here are some of the stakeholder categories this is how will organised to this particular entity and this kind of points out what i was saying all of the different types of entities that have a role to play in the smart red we're providing of forum for them all to get together and discuss the hard issue here's the organisation it's a structured group that has both standing committees as well as particular priority action teams and as domain expert working groups and a has some functions to help to prove its operation putting import we there's a governing board that is selected from these different categories that hops over oversee the entire process of this market not ability this is where a lot of the decisions are are my here some of the key committee here or some of the efforts that we've have that have been confirmed completed by the governing board so of make great progress over last couple years here's one in particular energy usage information so if you look at issues that are facing the consumer the consumer wants to have more information about their energy use and then be able to uh use that energy used to change their behaviour we need to put in place some rough structures on the energy usage to try to have consistency across process system there's a lot of different applications that we use energy usage information and this helps to develop a standard which is already done now with the north american energy standards board which set the data model for this nugget of energy information that can then be used by all the other groups to have consist i mentioned here as spoke organisation here's some of the uh the government to government interactions that are going on as well as the various works of the stairs about one organisations as an ieee a group a should point out that we have a strong connection with the P twenty thirty there's also um the international smart reaction network is a an uh which is a strong international law a push to um uh to help to accelerate the development and deployment of a lecture rooms smart right then then to to to kind of finish up i'm just gonna whizz through very quickly some technical capabilities on the measurements side i just to give you a taste of the kinds of things that were able to do from a technology point of so if you look at this domain diagram here all the different places that we have efforts on research i mean a focus in on just a couple in here a little bit later about phasor measurement units one of the things that nist has done is put together a calibration service for these units basically these give you a snapshot of the grid the state of the can like an E K G for the for by working on both the standards as well as test beds were able to uh put together a testing program to sit for the deployment of these that these units yeah we're working very closely with the various standards organisations to improve in addition we do a lot with building automation and control and for example one of the things that we're doing right now is developing an net zero energy residence and some of the action will be and looking at the communications between the grid and buildings looking at a ways to to improve that more generally there's a need for data management this is where this community can come in and help with there's all sorts of things that we need with real data you're are just a few of the new computational applications we're gonna see forecasting load variable generation a lot more situational awareness and data management there's a lot of data involved and also a eventually getting to the point a control so with that'll conclude here's my contact information if you'd like to uh ask any further questions and perhaps we have a time for for i think there's room for innovation in particularly in the uh a part that faces the consider so the parts dealing with demand response and things that the commune or the consumer is going to need kind of summarised and understood to see how they can then act the information there's also a fair amount that goes on within the utility space there's lots of parts that have to communicate with each other however most of that is you point out there is as regulatory aspect that can sometimes it feels like you're walking through molasses but the trick is to simplify things and do all that technical details stuff underneath but you have to simplify it in layers and layers because in the and you're talking with regulators the don't understand very much of the technical D and so the make progress on the parts that impact regulation really takes a different skill set so in essence we need the work of the technology developers but then we also need the ability to interact with the right okay just a smart grid need smart customers um yes and no uh i if we're gonna reliance smart customers a wait for a long time um however we were we can do is get the customers that's for that they need to basically set there uh um preferences and then a automated systems then respond to this and in essence we're gonna need smart consumers who are able to buy the V C R's but we need as V C R to automatically program that solves so they're not flashing with the the day thing but of course were with D V hours now but i so so in S and some other needs to be a lot to make it simple for the can