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Fig. 1. Cables worth €127 million will form the latest link between Denmark and Norway.
New standards drive US smart grid forward
The agreement of new standards to act as a guide for smart grid-related technologies is helping to drive investment in the US. Sean Ottewell reports.
El acuerdo sobre los nuevos estándares que guiarán las tecnologías relacionadas con la red inteligente contribuye a impulsar las inversiones en Estados Unidos. Informa Sean Ottewell.
Der Beschluss neuer Normen und Richtlinien als Leitfaden für intelligente Stromnetztechnologien beflügelt Investitionen in den USA. Sean Ottewell hat dazu einen Bericht.
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he Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) – a consensus-based group of more than 675 public and private organisations created by the US National Institute of Standards
(NIST) — has made the first six entries into its new catalogue of standards, a technical document that is expected to serve as a guide for smart grid–related technology in the country. Te six standards, all of which were approved
previously by the SGIP’s governing board, received approval by more than 90 per cent of the broader SGIP membership in a recent vote. Although the SGIP does not develop or write these standards directly, a vote of approval signifies that its member organisations have agreed on the inclusion of a group of standards in the catalogue. Te announcement follows an earlier decision
by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in which it declined to take action on the first five sets of smart grid interoperability standards submitted to it by NIST.
FERC explained that there was no consensus among key stakeholders that the standards should be adopted, and that the standards failed to address cybersecurity concerns. Te agency asked NIST to continue to work on the standards in consultation with stakeholders, however. FERC is required to review and approve NIST standards and protocols governing the operation of smart grid systems under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. SGIP said that the six entries in its catalogue
of standards relate to high-priority national standards needed to create a modern, energy- efficient power grid with seamlessly interoperable components. “In order to convert today’s power grid – which still functions largely as it did when grids were created in the 19th century – into a power distribution network that can enable the wide use of electric vehicles, as well as incorporate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, a number of new standards must be established,” it said.
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