Recent Updates

We are creating an archive of featured articles from our past newsletters. The December 2009 Featured Article on Smart Grid interfaces is now available.

William Cox presented at AHR 2010 in the GridWise Architecture Council sessions. The slides are here.

William Cox attended GridWeek in September, ISAExpo in October, and presented at Grid-Interop in November 2009. He co-authored three papers and presentations at Grid-Interop with Toby Considine. The presentations are (PDF at the links):

• Architecturally Significant Interfaces for the Smart Grid
• Smart Loads and Smart Grids-Creating the Smart Grid Business Case
• Price Communication, Product Definition, and Service-Oriented Energy

Pre-prints of the three papers are available on this site. Our December 2009 newsletter (contact us for a copy; archives are being created) has an introduction to that paper.

• Architecturally Significant Interfaces for the Smart Grid (paper)
• Smart Loads and Smart Grids--Creating the Smart Grid Business Case (paper)
• Price Communication, Product Definition, and Service-Oriented Energy (paper)

A Brief Note on Common Semantic Models, Common Information Models, and Interfaces was included in this site and summarized in our November 2009 Newsletter (subscribe here).

Collaborative Energy and the Future Smart Grid, William Cox's presentation at the new energy track for ISA Expo 2009 (Industrial Automation) is available now. It's a six megabyte PDF.

Achieving the Smart Grid Vision, a keynote presentation at the first NIST Smart Grid Workshop on April 28, 2009, is now on the site, as well as the SGIX (Smart Grid Information Exchange) handout from the second NIST Smart Grid Workshop, May 2009.

William Cox's talk from the Building-to-Grid Summit, Chicago, January 2009 and a related paper (also available online at Automated Buildings) are now on this site. His presentations from GridEcon, Connectivity Week, and his plenary presentation at the first NIST Smart Grid Roadmap Workshop will be uploaded soon.

Some of the recent uploads above are being integrated soon into the topic and conference-oriented Resources pages.

We have updated our Energy, eCommerce, and Buildings Work Area. This is the entry point to our work applying eCommerce technologies to the Smart Grid, facility management, and energy infrastructure. We show how device intelligence and eCommerce (and markets) can optimize use of existing infrastructure and drive Collaborative Energy for smart grid enabled facilities, devices, and transportation.

We have added pages for three key OASIS Technical Committees, Energy Interoperation, Energy Market Information Exchange, and SOA-EERP:

• You will find summary information on the OASIS Energy Interoperation Technical Committee. The Energy Interoperation TC is standardizing parts of OpenADR from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, coordinating with markets, energy industry business practices, and utility distribution and information technology. Automated Demand Response and Distributed Energy Resources are critical to the Smart Grid.
• You will find summary information on the EMIX TC. The OASIS Energy Market Information Exchange Technical Committee is the newest TC in the Smart Grid area. The EMIX TC will work on standardized communication of price and product information; it does not address market design or operations or interoperation protocols. See the summary for links and more.
• Work on Service-Oriented Architecture optimization is in the SOA Work Area. Look there for information on the technology; we've also summarized information on the OASIS SOA-EERP Technical Committee.

  Last updated: 28 February 2010