ATIS and the Smart Grid

1. ATIS and the Smart Grid Gale Lightfoot, Senior Staff Program Manager, Office of the CTO, SPB Cisco

2. Highlight of Current Activities (1) • Under the United States’ Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was given "primary responsibility to coordinate development of a framework that includes protocols and model standards for information management to achieve interoperability of smart grid devices and systems.” • ATIS has been involved in NIST’s Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) since August 2009, and has identified several areas of ICT standards involvement in SGIP’s Priority Actions Plans (PAPs). • Susan Miller, ATIS President & CEO, is a member of the Smart Grid Federal Advisory Committee, which provides input to NIST on the Smart Grid standards, priorities and gaps, and on the overall direction, status and health of the Smart Grid implementation by the Smart Grid industry including identification of issues and needs.

3. Highlight of Current Activities (2) • Focusing on the transport layer, ATIS Wireless Technologies and System Committee (WTSC) has developed input and provided supporting quantitative documentation to SGIP PAP02 (Wireless Communications for the Smart Grid) on the characteristics of four 3GPP technologies (EDGE, UMTS, HSPA+, and LTE) for inclusion as potential technologies to be used by Smart Grid. • WTSC continues to work on evaluating the aforementioned 3GPP technologies against the Smart Grid requirements to assess the suitability of these technologies for meeting the Smart Grid requirements.

4. Highlight of Current Activities (3) • Focusing on the service layer, ATIS’ Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Focus Group (FG) is currently addressing M2M, Smart Grid, Connected Vehicles, and eHealth. • Co-Chaired by Jeff Edlund, HP, and Gale Lightfoot, Cisco. • The Smart Grid group: • Has reviewed a large number of use cases, and it is now focusing on a subset of them that are relevant to the transmission of smart meter data; • Is examining, with an attempt to harmonize, global Smart Grid frameworks; • Is analyzing several protocols, such as Smart Energy Protocol (SEP) 2.0.

5. Strategic Direction • The ICT sector is uniquely well-positioned to leverage its networks and experience to enable interoperability between the Smart Grid’s intricate, multifaceted architectures and infrastructures; specifically: • Access/Transport/Delivery of Data and Services • Security and Conditional Access • Service Management • Many SG flows are currently through the SG Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Network and Distribution domain • Alternate/Future flows would be through the Home Area Network (HAN) to a Gateway with Energy System Interface (ESI) function embedded, and then into the carrier Access-IP Core to centralized applications, or back to Utility Operations • Local applications (e.g., in gateways in the consumer domain) must also be addressed • Pursue commonalities that enable converging of platforms.

6. Challenges Regulatory Considerations: • Consumer Privacy • 3rd party access to usage, billing, and pricing data • Municipal and local requirements to • Critical Infrastructure Protection • Cyber-security • Cyber asset management • Consumer Pricing Notification • State requirements associated with delivery of price signals and other consumer demand information • Net Energy Metering • Settlement rules associated with micro/distributed generation • Renewable Energy Generation Mandates • Wireless Spectrum Allocation

7. Next Steps/Actions • Efforts in the U.S. to enable a Smart Grid are well underway and these efforts are well represented by relevant stakeholders including ICT and power/utility companies and the corresponding international Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). • Leverage Use Case assessment(s) to precipitate common requirements and specifications with other verticals. • Establish relationships (i.e., between SPs and Utilities).

8. Proposed Resolution • ATIS proposes revisions to the existing Smart Grid Resolution contained in: • GSC-15/29: Smart Grid

9. Supplementary Slides

10. Current Smart Grid Landscape (1) • What is the “Smart Grid”? -- Tomorrow’s so-called “Smart Grid” is a means of next-generation energy delivery and measurement. It aims to deliver and monitor electricity consumption using multidirectional technologies that dynamically allocate and meter power flows to ensure increased efficiency, savings, and reliability.

11. Current Smart Grid Landscape (2) • Current centralized energy distribution networks are often huge, inefficient grids that lose power in transmission, require an overcapacity of generating capability to cope with unexpected surges in energy use, and only allow one-way communication — from provider to consumer. Notwithstanding these challenges, ICT has the opportunity to provide the information network required to make smart grids a reality.

12. Current Smart Grid Landscape (3) • Examples of applications and services include: • Development and deployment of an information network that provides a real-time, demand-side management system for power grids. • Support for and integration of renewables and distributed generation. • Workflow management systems for the grid. • Demand-response software that allows automated load maintenance. • Protocols for grid wide system interoperability. • Advanced communications to allow distributed energy producers to pool resources, and to handle variations in supply and demand.